It's interesting. On BBC radio yesterday and today they ran repeatedly the thoughts of a French leftist intellectual (I didn't get his name), who railed against Marie Le Pen's rightist party for having made anti-semitism "acceptable". This was his analysis of that had caused the killings of Jews in Toulouse. That is, her alleged anti-semitic rants had made anti-semitism acceptable and hence had led to the murders we've been reading, seeing and hearing about. It was a right-winger, a Nazi, he opined.
But I thought: strange. For Le Pen's party has for some time got off the anti-semitic gig and been all about raising issues about radical Islam in France. And it was more likely that any other theory, I thought, that it was Islamists that were killing these Jews in France. And if that were the case, this French lefty was attacking the people that had pointed out that danger, and not the perpetrators of the horrid killings.
And of course that's how it's turned out.
The motor-bike killer in Toulouse is an Al-Qaeda sympathiser.
Will this leftist dupe revise his views? Not likely.
LATER:
A thoughtful piece.
A trenchant and at times amusing piece. [inasmuch as humour is permissible in such a tragic case...]
A dopey piece. [torn apart by the commenters]
Does it matter if he was Neo-Nazi or Muslim? [Yes, she argues]
But I thought: strange. For Le Pen's party has for some time got off the anti-semitic gig and been all about raising issues about radical Islam in France. And it was more likely that any other theory, I thought, that it was Islamists that were killing these Jews in France. And if that were the case, this French lefty was attacking the people that had pointed out that danger, and not the perpetrators of the horrid killings.
And of course that's how it's turned out.
The motor-bike killer in Toulouse is an Al-Qaeda sympathiser.
Will this leftist dupe revise his views? Not likely.
LATER:
A thoughtful piece.
A trenchant and at times amusing piece. [inasmuch as humour is permissible in such a tragic case...]
A dopey piece. [torn apart by the commenters]
Does it matter if he was Neo-Nazi or Muslim? [Yes, she argues]
