Privacy advocates never cease invoking Armageddon, every time anybody tries to fight terrorism by improving surveillance and intelligence. There is also a fundamental right that is often overlooked by our self-appointed privacy advocates: the right […]
Extreme religious practices tend to attract comments, perhaps sometimes unpleasant – but so do all sorts of behaviours and attires to which society is not used at the moment. It must be hell to have […]
Boko Haram has been busy these days, massacring whole villages, with hundreds or even thousands of victims. Some voices on social sites complain that we are dedicating so much time to the Paris terrorist attacks […]
Ce n’est pas juste de demander à l’ensemble de l’umma musulmane de demander pardon ou de se désolidariser – mais s’ils ne participent pas à la lutte contre ces imbéciles criminels, on ne s’en sortira […]
Micheal Weiss in Foreign Policy: Je Suis Charlie (Until Je Get Scared) Michael Weiss gets it about right, except that he should mention that Charlie Hebdo published regularly much fiercer cartoons lampooning Christians or Jews. Not […]
Whenever there is an outrage, you can count on this kind of news story, social media post or comment: 1. Whitewashers and conspiracy theorists who claim that the victims shot themselves to frame their attackers […]
Les Guignols de l’Info du 07/01/15 – Je suis Charlie
Nearly all Europeans had every reason to continue reprisals and revenge, after the end of WWII in 1945. Instead, with few exceptions, people got busy rebuilding their life, getting back to normality as far as […]
Why so much islamophobia in Europe? It’s the egg and the chicken: as the first generation of north-African workers came to France and Turks to Germany, they had work, but were not necessarily accepted socially. […]
A lot of hyperventilation over very little: every state worth its salt collects intelligence on enemies, and allies. EU countries could start pointing fingers at the US, if they did not do the same, although […]
BBC News: Facebook lets beheading clips return A few years ago we had a discussion at work on whether we should screen material containing extreme violence, showing beheadings of western hostages by terrorists in Iraq […]
Les intellectuels égyptiens justifient le coup de force mené par l’armée C’est un de ces cas qui exigent une vraie refléxion, pas seulement une réaction automatique et manichéenne de bon-mauvais, massacreur-massacré. Mon commentaire sur l’article […]
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