Merci, Monsieur Badiou
Secular fanaticism must be exposed for its own hatred and xenophobia, and get over the old cliches of #East and #West.
New York, NY - In a powerful new essay for Le Monde [Fr], Alain Badiou, arguably the greatest living French philosopher, pinpoints the principal culprit in the success of the far-right in the recent French presidential election that resulted in the presidency of Francois Hollande.
At issue is the evidently not-so-surprising success of the French #far-right, #anti-immigration, #Islamophobe nationalist politician #Marine Le Pen - to whom the French electorate handed a handsome 20 per cent and third place prestige.
As Neni Panourgia has recently warned, “the phenomenon of Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi in Greek), the #neo-Nazi organisation that received almost seven per cent of the vote in the Greek elections of May 6” is a clear indication that this rise of the right is not limited to France. The gruesome mass murderer Anders Breivik signalled from Northern Europe a common spectre that hovers over the entirety of the continent - most recently marked by the trial of the Bosnian Serb mass murderer General Ratko Mladic - accused of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including orchestrating the week-long massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian war.
►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012521133112754351.html