Pourquoi je ne suis pas

Je suis is in, there is a trend to je suis-ing

ever since Charlie took a Muslim hit.

Je suis is I am,

one empathetically identifies in solidarity

with the vicitms of an aggressive act.

Je suis Charlie, je suis juif, je suis a murdered lad,

we may be seeing more of this in our

sense of powerlessness.

Descartes, giving us the basis

of Rationalist identity, claimed:

"I think, therefore je suis."

Some still debate that he rejected faith,

but for Muslims we are all unbelievers.

Being very much identified with my faith

I choose to ne suis pas.

I will not identify with this victimhood,

if Islam holds me to be Kafir (unbeliever)

in a world to be conquered, full of unbelieving

Kufar, then let me be that, and no victim

to this mad arrogance.

Je suis Kufar, and nothing else.

Let me join with all the loathed non-Muslim world,

the Jews and the Christians, the Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists,

the Parsis and Animists, the Alawites and the I'm-alrights,

the "wrong"-Muslims and the Ex-Muslims,

the atheists and the agnostics,

let us join together in a

conscious confession of own conscience,

saying: "Je suis Kufar!"

And saying it with conviction and with defiance.