At the time of the French elections, the American Islamophobe
media, a particularly hysterical division of the most loony right wing media, disgustedly
observed that most of France’s Muslim voters went for the socialists.
That was, they claimed, because the Socialists are the French
welfare party and the patrons of France’s 47%.
And, of course, also because they, like the entire European
left, are soft on Islamism.
Contrary to what these warnings might lead you to expect, immediately
after the election a representative of the new government spoke at one of
France’s principal mosques and told those present in no uncertain terms Islamism
would not be tolerated in France.
But of course, observed the Islamophobes in an aside, the
new government also announced it would permit construction of hundreds of new
mosques in France.
Now we have the French action in Mali flatly contradicting
the “soft on Islamism” line of the American, conservative Islamophobes.
What will be their aside, this time?
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