Smells like fascism...Paris will never be defeated by the sour killers of daesh

Clouds over Paris

Why do I love Paris? It was the city me dad was in during the Second World War and where as a fifteen year old he fought nazis. Smuggling, helping people escape to the rat line. Every time I go there, and I was last there in October this year, I think of him when I see the monuments and plaques that still remind us of young lives lost fighting fascism and this week again, fascism struck taking one hundred and thirty lives Struck down doing only one thing in common, living. 

There has been that much cod spoken following the terrorist attack in Paris it could repopulate the North Sea. Writers on the left and right have been busy, often being wise after the event. The most depressing are the pious, sanctimonious, left wing warriors of comment threads with their smoke and mirror words along the lines of "although this this been terrible and in no way do I support the terrorists haven't we (the advantaged) brought it on ourselves." The victims in these statements, although not explicitly stated are the murderers who are 'disadvantaged' and have no where to go but to fire automatic weaponry into crowds of people eating, watching sport, music-in short being sinful by enjoyment and then blow themselves up with belt bombs designed to cause maximum carnage."

Then there are the white "I hate muslims" Like Reclaim Australia/Patriot Front hybrids here in Australia. Wanting us to believe all muslims by being muslim are budding terrorists just waiting to go off like shit house doors in a gale! The new "Reds under the Beds"

Here in Australia, thank goodness for the sanity of Waleed Aly "ISIL wants to split the world into two camps...they want us all to become hostile...make muslims the enemy of the west." Why give them that opportunity. Let us remind ourselves what the caliphate preachers want. A society where woman are subservient to ignorant and egotistical, testosterone driven men. Where if you are gay you will be executed. Where if you are different, you will stand out and be crushed. Where life has small value against an afterlife which for blessed martyrs (those pathetic morons who blow themselves into mince) amounts to coming into a paradise akin to a male, porno experience-how many virgins and why? Where there is only one form of acceptable fascism and all other forms of belief are unbelievers to be destroyed and killing them gives you fly-bys to paradise. Where enjoyment, love, most music, poetry, art is a sin.

But they are destroyers not creators. These destroyers of life are hypocrites and bullies and for all of their agression-cowards. For all the orange suited social media cutting of throats-it is no more than little men being big in their own eyes, killing kittens. They are in a particular dream time of history, a choking dust that can never nourish life or creativity. Shackled in shite, they are no better than the nazis and like them, eventually  they will be consigned to the dustbin of failure, crushed under the aspiration of freedom. People don't want to be suffocated by totalitarian ideologies or told by muppets with beards and long robes what to believe. Freedom fighters? They are the complete opposite-oppressors stamping on what they cannot possess and control - soul.

But what I love about Paris is that within two days people were back in the cafes, on the terraces raising a glass to life and finger to daesh fascism. Paris, for all of its shortcomings will always stand up to this shite. Smells like fascism? It is fascism. One more joyless cause promoting death and slavery. Paris, however, remains a beacon, a city of love that dares to dream.