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 ---- Messages dŽorigine ---- 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' > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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