Mourning together with France (question 3)

 An unfortunate and excessive terrorist attack took place in Paris, France on January 7^th 2015. Charlie Hebdo fell victim to this planned attack. Hebdo was a journalist that wrote for an upper-class but controversial magazine called the Satirical. This magazine patronized and angered many religious groups with its articles poking fun at Muhammad and other religious leaders. It is said that the terrorist group was angry about the taunting and retaliated by attacking the leading journalist.

          The assassins have now been killed. France is desperately seeking unity in their time of need. In times of great emotional crisis, it is common for the people surrounding to come together in solace and mourn as one and it is no different in Paris. Parisians and people around the world are deeply saddened by the death of this credible writer. Truthfully, I personally, would not be deterred by this awful incident enough not to go to Paris. It is a sad world we live in but unfortunately (although it shouldn’t be this way…) you take your chances when going somewhere. Ideally, there wouldn’t be anything to be afraid of in a perfect world but in the world we live in, anything could happen, anywhere and at any time. I would still travel to Paris at this time, admittedly with less rashness. I would take extra precautions, yes, but I would still travel to Paris.

       This is a tragedy that we all mourn together for and I support France in their time of struggle but we must remember that these terrorist groups cannot hide behind the excuse of “religion.” By this I mean that, these groups are not following anything Islam or the Muslim faith encourages. The Muslim faith is not a bad one and I feel that because of terrorists being confused with the faith, it is seen in a bad light. There is a big difference between these terrorist groups and traditional Muslim teaching. Being Muslim is perfectly okay. Al Qaeda itself in other incidents have attacked innocent Muslim people and I believe the victims should never be grouped with the assassins. Once again, however; I stand with Paris and I hope they will find solace in their happy memories with Hebdo. I hope another tragedy like this won’t happen again as it has shattered both people close to Hebdo and people all around the world.