Putting the fatwa on a French dissident, for writing this article. Is that being civil, JJ?
Yesterday the voice of the poor claimed to come from Moscow, today it would come from Mecca! Today again, the intellectuals incarnate this eye of the Koran, as they incarnated the eye of Moscow yesterday. They excommunicate for islamophobia, as they did yesterday for anticommunism.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
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A day later, the French (well, actually, le Figaro) surrender. And the sky is blue.
In the meantime, poor guy writes to Glucksmann, describing how the French stand up for their cherished right to free speech, when they come under vicious attack:
C'est bien triste. J'ai exercé un droit constitutionnel, et j'en suis puni, sur le territoire même de la République. Cette affaire est aussi une attaque contre la souveraineté nationale: des lois étrangères, décidées par des fanatiques criminophiles, me punissent d'avoir exercé un droit constitutionnel français, et j'en subis, en France même, grand dommage.
Hey, man, what did you expect? Backbone?
Sounds like a whiner. Birkenstocks bothering him?
This is interesting - one way for a scholar to quickly make a name for him/herself was to deny the holocaust. Thanks to a few imams, there is now a second way to reach the academic equivalent of a get rich quick scheme. So why are you guys bitching ?
One of the categories is telling the truth, Pepe. Small detail for an academic?
Receiving chop-your-head threats = get rich quick scheme? In waht sense did this Frenchman get rich? The cognitive dissonance of this comment is stupefying. As usual, the self-loathing, blame-the-West-uber-alles Pavlovian reflexes of the Left know no bounds.
Small technical detail: the guy is not an "academic" -- rather, a prof de lycée, in a banlieu of Toulouse (as the wiki article I linked to indicates). But of course, once he challenged one of the shibboleths of the Left, his character and integrity must be attacked at all costs, right?
Here is an earlier essay by the guy.
Le concept d' " islamophobie " est originairement une arme forgée par les islamistes dans le but d'imposer leur vision totalitaire du monde. Il plonge ses racines dans le plus sordide obscurantisme. Au départ " islamophobie " était donc un mot de combat - et chacun se souvient de la formule du poète révolutionnaire Maïakovski, " les mots sont des balles "!
Well said. But, is this the kind of discourse that gets one to be rich quickly in France? Puhleaase.
guys - i was kidding.
OK, OK. But do you agree that this (together with Theo Van Gogh's murder, the reaction to the Danish cartoons, the Pope's speech, etc, etc) does, and increasingly will have a chilling effect on free speech as we know it in the West, including France? And that, the reason for this sad state of affairs is not the BushCabal, or whatever risible bugaboo self-gelding lefties can come up with, but rather, the people who issue such bone-chilling death threats, and occasionally carry them out, in a gruesome fashion?
Obviously people are chickening out as far as free speech is concerned, AI. But here we are totally cowed by 'hate crime' crap too.
Gluckmann (or the other guy--who was it that had to retreat from his words lately?) said the new fascism was political correctness.
<the new fascism was political correctness
Political correctedness of the "save the world" kind or of the "our soldiers are doing a great job in iraq" kind ?
"Islam is differently just" kind.
Here is the guy I meant. Sorry I misremembered the quote.
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