Révélations sur le politiquement correct, les partis pris et le refus de mettre en doute les grandiloquences auto-congratulatoires des autorités (avec preuves à l'appui) qui sévissent dans le journal de référence, Le Monde, et dans d'autres médias français…….Bilingual Documenting and Exposing of the Biased Character of French Media, Including its Newspaper of Reference, Le Monde
In a past life he was France’s
leading advocate for journalists, fighting to spring them from
dictators worldwide, a fearless defender of freedom of the press on four
continents and a hero to free-speech advocates
That
was then. Now, Robert Ménard, the man who founded Reporters Sans
Frontières — Reporters Without Borders — has become a symbol of
right-wing extremism in France.
No
longer a journalists’ advocate but the mayor of the largest city under
far-right control in France, he says there are too many immigrants in
his town, too many veils, too many Muslim children and too much culture
that is not French.
Mr.
Ménard has ordered the laundry off the window ledges, the satellite
dishes off the roofs and Syrian refugees out of public housing. He has
counted the Muslim children in schools here — a strict no-no in secular
France — and increased police patrols on horseback in this whitewashed
old Mediterranean city of 70,000 people, high unemployment, high
poverty, narrow stone streets and medieval churches.
“People
feel like they are being replaced,” Mr. Ménard said an interview inside
the 18th-century City Hall. “Immigration has become massive.”
For
the far right in France, his tenure as mayor of Béziers has become a
laboratory of sorts, watched with fascination by the country’s media,
chagrin by liberal-minded opponents and glee by the National Front party
of Marine Le Pen.
… “We are the avant-garde of change in France,” Mr. Ménard, 62, declared in the interview.
… to Mr. Ménard, it is all straightforward. He wants most if not all of the immigrants to go somewhere else.
“I
don’t want this city to be majority-Muslim, at all,” he said. “There is
a majority of the Muslim population that is incapable of living within
the norms of this country.”
“I
love this country,” he said, ticking off France’s prowess in
literature, art and architecture, even its “way of looking at women. I
am as attached to them as to my own eyes,” he said.
“The
identity of this city is not a Muslim identity,” Mr. Ménard continued.
“This is a problem of numbers. When you’ve got two-thirds of the kids in
a school with Muslim names — that’s a disaster. Impossible. There’s no
way you could want this.”
In
September, he strode into public housing here, wearing his tricolor
official sash — the French national colors — and accompanied by a
retinue of aides, to accost a Syrian refugee wearing a Berkeley T-shirt.
In his carefully enunciated diction, Mr. Ménard told the bemused-looking refugee, “Sir, you are not welcome in this city.”
… Mr.
Ménard founded Reporters Sans Frontières in 1985 with friends, and
until he left it in 2008, was an uncompromising defender of free speech,
becoming ever more so as the years went on, and even speaking up
against the law silencing French Holocaust deniers like Robert Faurisson.
Mr.
Ménard was born in French Algeria and was forced to leave with his
family, along with millions of other Frenchmen, when the country gained
independence in 1962 — a background critics say explains his hostility
toward Muslim immigrants.
Mr. Ménard, 62, declared in the interview.
… to Mr. Ménard, it is all straightforward. He wants most if not all of the immigrants to go somewhere else.