Sunday, December 13, 2015

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SECULARISM AND FRANCE - THE RISE OF TRUMP AND LE PEN - AND CONFLATING FASCISM WITH ISLAM: EXACTLY WHAT ISRAEL AND APOLOGETIC COLUMNISTS HAVE DONE FOR YEARS


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN


Another hopeless, uninformative piece from Natalie Nougayrède.

Do you really want to support secularism?

Then support Assad who runs a genuinely secular government which defends all religious minorities in a part of the world where such qualities are not common.

France in fact has become less secular than it once was with various repressive laws (repressive for an advanced country).

Holland is a pathetic figure, largely disliked by his own countrymen.

He is close to servile in serving American-Israeli interests.

Indeed, it is precisely because Assad does not toe the American line that he is attacked by a nasty little club whose members think they are entitled to decide who should head the government of Syria.

They are Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and America - supported by the likes of Cameron, Hollande, and journalists like Ms Nougayrède.

The whole business is in violation of all international law, treaties, and conventions.

I love Ms Nougayrède’s high-sounding, "... voices that conflate Islam with fanaticism and terrorism..."

And what else have Western governments and the mainline press done for years, effectively preparing the ground for further extremes in politics?

Journalists who serve as apologists for Israel's brutal excesses since the time of 9/11 have delivered countless truckloads of just such thinking.

After all, it is Israel that conflates powerless, abused people who want basic rights and human respect with terrorists. It is virtually national policy, and it is pushed into the policies of America by political influence and thereby into the policies of weak allied leaders like Cameron and Hollande.

And if we consider repressive and brutal leaders, none better qualifies than Netanyahu. He's covered in Muslim blood and daily treats about 5 million people with virtual contempt.


Marie Le Pen and Donald Trump by comparison are guilty only of excessive and sometimes unpleasant speech.