Seamus Milne writes that the Paris attacks were a form of blow back - and that this whole freedom of speech hoo-ha is just a ruse for selective structural and cultural racism and discrimination against French Muslims - I say selective because anti-antisemitism is a crime punishable by law. Foreign policy is also focused on in this piece. This is a must read piece. Those on the left of centre will find much value in it - Milne writes ...hailed by white France as a colour-blind secularism that ensures equality for all is experienced by many Muslims as discrimination and denial of basic liberties ... a country where women are bundled into police vans because of the way they dress, freedom of speech can also look like a one-way street.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:47:42 +0000