05 February 2008

Media Martyrdom Operation

The TF3 idiot on « Ce Soir Ou Jamais ! » interviewing Tariq Ramadan demonstrated the usual European bigotry, in thinking that politics is somehow genetic or hereditary. As if the world would really be able to sit still that long for these simpletons to understand it. It’s absurd. All he has to do is actually read what Ramadan actually says when he isn’t stroking your chicken.

From World Politics Review:

It has often been pointed out that Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan Al-Banna: the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the pivotal organization in the history of Islamic fundamentalism. And it has at least just as often been pointed out that this should not matter, since, after all, no one chooses their parents and grandparents. In a debate with Tariq Ramadan on the French public television channel France 3 last Wednesday, the Franco-Tunisian author Abdelwahab Meddeb posed what is the real question in this connection: Is Tariq Ramadan faithful to the legacy of his grandfather's ideas?
The show runs on the tagline « L’actualité vur par la culture » (“the news seen through the prism of culture, and not as implied “the way the culture sees news”), which is basically how the French preSS sees everything anyway, because you can pretty much bend it any way you like.

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