French freedom of speech: Long live!
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French official sacked for anti-Israeli diatribe
PARIS (AFP) — A French senior civil servant has been sacked for publishing a violent anti-Israeli diatribe on a web site, the interior ministry said.
Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern town of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was “the only state where snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates.”
The author of several books on the Israli-Palestinian conflict, Guigue wrote of the “Israeli jails where — thanks to religious law — they stop torturing on the Sabbath.”
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie dismissed the official after learning of the column on Wednesday, the ministry said.
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3 Comments on “French freedom of speech: Long live!”
I agree totally with Islamify.com.
I was born and raised in France, so I know how it is here. By example, the criticism he made are very common about Iran, many intellectuals or politicians attack this country and it is seen as democracy, however when it is too violent against Israel it is called antisemitism and violation of neutrality.
In general, you can insult and demonise Islam and Arabs, or any Islamic country, because it is freedom of speech, but any criticism towards Judaism or Jews or any denial of the official history imposed by the French government will be punished by judiciary sanctions and the medias will insist for weeks about you being an evil antisemitic person.
Other examples, it is allowed to show joy about Iraq War, but being glad for 09/11 is illegall, it is also normal to glorify the colonial occupation of hundreds of nations by European powers in the past, but gloryfing Germany’s expansion in Europe is not allowed.
I could cite thousands of other examples but I would spend days, so i think it is understood. I wonder whether it is the same situation in the USA.
I saw this article and decided to see just what the French official wrote that got him fired. This is the article in French-you can run it through babel fish to have it translated (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
Article: http://oumma.com/Quand-le-lobby-pro-israelien-se
(I know it’s the right one, because another article about this incident stated the article in question was dated March 13 by Bruno Guigue)