A pro-Republican author in France was expelled from a television show
during the Donald Trump inauguration after "shock" at her "rather
hallucinatory rant."
Mind you,
Evelyne Joslain
did not say on BFMTV that Barack Obama was a Muslim, but that he might
be Muslim, in his heart, specifically, that "I believe Obama is more
Muslim in his heart than Christian."
This led to
shock throughout the French media, with
Marianne calling it "surreal" and
Télérama
declaring that "we couldn't believe our ears." Indeed, the (very) few
people who leaped to her defense were said, all of them, to belong to…
(wait for it)
le Fascosphère.
The question (regarding
Evelyne Joslain's alleged "
misplaced words") that the members of the mainstream media (uncharitably called by some, "
presstitutes") of any country, including America itself, never ask and never answer, is the following:
what is wrong with being Muslim anyway
— given that we are constantly reminded how wonderful, or at least how
normal, the religion of peace is — while how insulting is it not to
think the leader of a Western nation is Christian — given the fact that
we are constantly reminded how obtuse, retrograde, and superstitious
those oafish believers are.
And why shouldn't a person
be allowed to believe that a certain leader, or a certain type of a
country's population is hateful towards the country (or the majority
population thereof) that he leads or that they live in? We hear about
hate and hate thought and hate crimes all the time? Are only members of
the right supposed to belong to such a group? Well, that's exactly the
point, ain't it?
The same outrage came up in America itself as the presidential campaign
was slowly getting underway when Donald Trump, asked if Obama is a
Muslim, "did nothing at the time to disabuse the man of this notion and
the
candidate has since taken considerable heat for his nonresponse from
just about every quarter, including that paragon of justice and honesty
Hillary Clinton" (
Roger Simon).
Time to head over to
PJ Media's
Instapundit where
Glenn Reynolds and
Ed Driscoll have some choice comments, while
Jim Treacher,
Andrew Klavan, and
Brian Gates take the media's double standards a step further in the obligatory snarky section.
Roger Simon went on to point out the following:
Is Obama a Muslim? The answer is no. But what is he then? Is Obama a Christian, as Jeb Bush
asserted in an attempt to make Trump look bad after Thursday's dustup?
Not a chance. Obama is about as pure a post-modern agnostic as you can
find. He's about as Christian as your average gender studies professor
at Swarthmore. Religion is for the [44th] president a convenience, an instrument of power.
What
Evelyne Joslain didn't, and doesn't, understand is that nobody, but
nobody, is allowed to criticize Barack Obama, or even put his words into
doubt, since he is not a professional politician (or at least not a
professional politician in the normal sense) but something closer to a
sainted figure, near-messiah, who is trying to transform the nightmarish
hellhole that is America into a European paradise, a place where
Americans will finally be so lucky to have as high taxes as Europeans
do, as much red tape as Europeans enjoy, and as many bureaucrats as
Europeans have.
Indeed, the taboo on saying anything
negative about Obama seems coupled with the right, indeed almost the
duty, to say nothing positive about people like George Bush, Sarah
Palin, and Donald Trump…
That's the real story: nobody
is allowed to question the immortal pronouncements of the left's paragon
of virtue (whether concerning his private life or public policy), and
nobody, more generally, is allowed to question any part of the left's PC
narrative.
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As long as the Left remains self-righteous, it will continue to terrorize the rest of us
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Only the Latter Fights Ferociously
• Sur les chaînes françaises, on préfère les crétins
qui ne connaissent des Etats-Unis que les lieux où les gauchistes se
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les lieux où les gauchistes se réunissent pour trépigner en vase clos