Monday, March 04, 2013

French Minister Condemns Islamo Fascism, Using the Same Expression that Brought George W Bush So Much Opprobrium a Decade Ago


France's minister of the interior has condemned "an Islamic fascism that is on the rise just about everywhere." The words of the socialist Manuel Valls against "this obscurantism" is of course the very language that got George W Bush into so much trouble (as his BDS critics conveniently forgot the times when the American president referred to Islam as a religion of peace).
Manuel Valls, ministre de l'Intérieur, a réagi … aux manifestations qui éclatent en Tunisie depuis l'assassinat de l'opposant Chokri Belaïd. Sur Europe 1, il a dénoncé "un fascisme islamique qui monte un peu partout". Il a estimé que "cet obscurantisme (...) doit être évidemment condamné (...) puisqu'on on nie cet état de droit, cette démocratie pour lesquels les peuples libyens, tunisiens, égyptiens se sont battus."

Selon lui, la France doit "soutenir les démocrates" en Tunisie pour que les "valeurs de la révolution du jasmin ne soient pas trahies". Il a également assuré que "la France ne coopérera jamais quand il s'agit de réprimer un peuple". Le ministre de l'Intérieur a dit toutefois "garder espoir dans le rendez-vous électoral pour que les forces démocratiques et laïques, celles qui portent les valeurs de cette révolution du jasmin, demain l'emportent". "C'est un enjeu considérable (...) pas uniquement pour les Tunisiens mais pour tout l'espace méditerranéen, et donc aussi pour la France."
This comes of course as a new book comes out revisiting Jacques Chirac's Foreign Policy and France's opposition to Bush during the Iraq War, and as France is involved in a Muslim region war of its own, in Mali where François Hollande is compared to Charles de Gaulle (regarding the horrors of white racism, incidentally, check out the post Mali Native Tells Incredulous MSM Reporter That He Would Like Nothing Better Than for Mali to Be Colonized by Whites Again (VIDEO)).

Oh, and the information about the speech of Manuel Valls (who was asked questions by by Le Parisien's readers) would not be complete without this surprise: The mainstream media (neither French nor international) hardly seems to have tried to make anything close to front page news about the Manuel Valls statement, much less to cry bloody murder regarding this piece of news (as they would have were Dubya involved). At the time of this writing, few of the search results after a Google search of the words fascisme islamique manuel valls lead to any MSM reports of the event (Merci à Bill).

(Update: Et un merci pour le Professeur Reynolds) Related: • 9 to 10 Years' Jail Time for Italy's Secret Service Honchos for Helping Bush White House 10 Years Ago (The international left's fight against the Bush Administration in particular and against conservative America in general continues…)

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