Charlie Hebdo - Death Cults & a Death Wish

A death cult indoctrinates members in devotion to, or worship, in some form or other, of death. (Interestingly this doesn't appear in Collins English Dictionary.) A death wish is the desire for self annihilation.


In the UK suicide is the biggest cause of death in men under 35. It’s one of the few things that men are better at than women. Because of the way in which they try to kill themselves, men are more likely to succeed. Every year, more than 5,000 people take their own lives – and 22 per cent of them are men aged between 16 and 24. In the 20 to 24 age group, men are four times more likely to kill themselves than women. Suicide is the commonest cause of death among men under 35. 

 

There is one suicide every two hours - and at least 10 times that number attempt it. 6.2% of 16-24 year olds have attempted suicide in their lifetime. In 2011, 194 15-19 year olds and 427 20-24 year olds committed suicide.

 

What makes people prepared to die for a cause? Are we seeing people being indoctrinated / conditioned to think that killing is the right thing to do? Numerous scientific experiments have shown that people can be "trained" to behave in ways which are contrary to "normal" behaviour. Look up the Milgram experiment in America.

 

When you add to that the marginalisation of groups of people like the Kouachi brothers, who often live in poverty traps like the banlieues or city suberbs, which have been increasingly used to describe suburban low-income housing projects, where the majority are unemployed, then you have a recipe for disaster. Add to the mix charismatic leaders with fundamentalist views & you have a time bomb waiting to go off.

 

Muslims believe the Quran or Koran was verbally revealed to the prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel. That is no more or less believable than that Jesus was the son of God born of the Virgin Mary. Both religions have very similar core beliefs & tenets of behaviour. It is wrong to kill your fellow human beings and you will not go to heaven as a martyr or anything else if you do. 

 

If you don't value your life or anyone else's no one else will either. We have moved into a new age of "expendable people". Politicians & the armed forces started it with the euphemism " Collateral damage." 

 

I hope they are now ruing the day because they have unleashed a holocaust.