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Yeah, it's a heavy subject to bring up, but I just wanted to propose something - Change your Signature.

If you look at mine, I already have. What the Kouachi brothers did was not religion. No god would be satisfied to have people killed in his name.
My thoughts go out to the families of the victims and the french people.
I am Charlie.
I am Ahmed.

It's nonsense.

It's another social media hype that does nothing to solve the problem, but solely aims at making people feel more comfortable by "being part" of something.

 Matthew wrote:
Yeah, it's a heavy subject to bring up, but I just wanted to propose something - Change your Signature.

If you look at mine, I already have. What the Kouachi brothers did was not religion. No god would be satisfied to have people killed in his name.
My thoughts go out to the families of the victims and the french people.
I am Charlie.
I am Ahmed.

Yeah... no.

That whole campaign is completely worthless and won't accomplish anything, I would rather that it would not spread outside of the cesspools of twitter and facebook and into Dakka.

Also, what those guys did is very much religion since all that they did was pass on the "divine judgement" proscribed in the Kuran to those that make images of the Prophet.

You know we have a thread on the event, right?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/630105.page

 Sigvatr wrote:
It's nonsense.

It's another social media hype that does nothing to solve the problem, but solely aims at making people feel more comfortable by "being part" of something.

Pfft. Don't you remember how well #BringBackOurGirls worked?

 Ouze wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
It's nonsense.

It's another social media hype that does nothing to solve the problem, but solely aims at making people feel more comfortable by "being part" of something.

Pfft. Don't you remember how well #BringBackOurGirls worked?

...and how could I forget about the millions of children saved by Facebook likes? D:

 Sigvatr wrote:
It's nonsense.

It's another social media hype that does nothing to solve the problem, but solely aims at making people feel more comfortable by "being part" of something.

Come on, do not be such a downer. It also has the great effect of letting all your friends know that you are against the killing of journalists because of a caricature. In case they had any doubt. If they had any doubt, you are certainly an awesome person I would really like to spend more time with!

 daedalus wrote:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/630105.page