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December 4, 2005
France: A Look at the Destruction of Truth-Seeking
Novelist and commentator Nidra Poller takes a look at the consequences of violating the secular faith of political correctness. Those who tell the truth should be prepared to suffer the consequences: The Riot Act
PARIS -- Add one more casualty to the victims of the November incidents in France: Alain Finkielkraut, 56-year-old professor, philosopher, author, and subtle commentator on current events. This humane intellectual has been dragged into something like a cross between a medieval disputation, the Moscow Trials, and an al Qaeda beheading scene, simply because he deviated from the accepted interpretation of the violence then raging in France…and said it in an Israeli newspaper.Finkielkraut was interviewed in the thick of the fighting by two journalists from the Israeli daily Haaretz, Dror Mishani and Aurélia Samothraiz. Thinking himself in friendly territory, the philosopher spoke freely about the origins and implications of the violence that was shaking France on its foundations.
Haaretz published an awkward English translation of the interview/profile, originally conducted in French on November 17; the Hebrew version was the cover story of the November 18 weekend supplement. In the course of the interview Finkielkraut remarked that it was not possible to say "these things" in France.
How right he is.
Go read it all.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at December 4, 2005 7:45 PM
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