Hamid Taqvaee’s message to the people of France following the
tragic terrorist attack in Nice
15 July 2016
The
terrorist attack on Bastille Day in Nice is heartwrenching. This is a crime not
just against the people of France, but also against the people of the world. I
send my condolences to the families of the victims, the people of France and of
the world on the loss of the lives of so many men, women and children. Just
like the attack on the editors of Charlie Hebdo and the massacre in Paris last autumn,
what happened in Nice is an assault on humanity and civilisation. All the
civilised people of the world feel for and stand with the people of France, just
as they did with the movement ‘I am Charlie’ in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
attack.
Following this
painful tragedy, once again the question preoccupying the minds of the people
is this: how can we rid the world of the menace of Islamic terrorism? The governments
and ruling parties do not have an answer: by attacking Iraq and scrambling together
a tribal-religious government, they are the cause of this mess; they are part
of the problem of political Islam, not its solution. The solution is in the
hands of people who stand up to Islamic terrorism by shouting ‘I am Charlie’;
people who in battered Iraq storm the streets, chanting ‘Neither sunni nor
shia, but secularism’; and people in Iran who have been defying the Islamic
regime and its inhumane laws for years. The solution is in the hands of the
people of France and the millions and millions around the world who have had
enough.
Political Islam,
in all its shapes and branches, from the Islamic State and Hezbollah to the
Islamic regime in Iran, Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram, and so-called
‘moderate’ Islamists in East and West, is diametrically opposed to the values
and culture that the French Revolution championed and ushered in. The attack by
political Islam on the day of the storming of the Bastille by the revolutionary
people of Paris, an event that set off the French Revolution, is a mark of the
ossification and setback, which political Islam is trying to force on our world.
The
bourgeoisie, the ruling 1% of the world, has long given up the ideals of the
French Revolution. Today the banner of defending civilisation and universal
human values, in the face of the onslaught by Islamism and racism, is in the
hands of the left forces, the 99% of the world. Extending the values of the
French Revolution brings us to the socialist critique of the world today. Only
with this banner can we defeat the political Islamic movement and stop racism
and Islamic terrorism in both the East and the West.
On 14 July
1789 the revolutionary people of France stormed the Bastille fortress. The
terrorist attack by Islamists on the anniversary of this day says to the people
of the world that the storming of the fortress of political Islam calls for the
mobilisation of a radical movement in defence of freedom, equality and
civilisation. Let us try to make 14 July this year the day of the rise of this
movement and the beginning of the fall of political Islam.
Hamid Taqvaee
Leader of
the Worker-communist Party of Iran
