File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0204, message 262


From: "Ralph Hage" <hage.ralph-AT-courrier.uqam.ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:21:07 -0400
Subject: Re: French Elections


This has been confirmed. Wow, a shocker!

Ralph Hajj
Portfolio:  http://www.geocities.com/cathedral12001

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De: Omar Guessous <o_guessous-AT-yahoo.com>
Date: dimanche 21 avril  2002 14:41
Objet: French Elections

> I just got word that Le Pen might have made into the
> 2nd round of presidential elections, alongside Chirac.
> A long-time figure of French right-wing xenophobic and
> racist politics, hes known for having Arab blood  on
> the bumper of his car, as the joke goes; his hatred
> for North Africans in particular is rather unequaled. 
> 
> I must admit this comes as a very scary shock to me as
> a human being, but mostly as a North African - though
> thinking about it, it makes some sense what with the
> unequaled global rise in hatred and/or fear of the
> Arab/Muslim worlds  Wow I hope the exit polls are
> wrong. 
> 
> Although its unlikely he would be elected as
> president (I hope), this remains an extremely bad sign
> for France, for Europe, for North Africa, for the
> world 
> 
> .O.
> 
> 
> ====> "There are insistent questions that we all have to ask and that 
> make it clear to us that it is not possible to study simply for the 
> sake of studying. As if we could study in a way that really had 
> nothing to do with that distant, strange world out there."
> - Paulo Freire, in 'Pedagogy of Freedom'
> 
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