Tweet Throwing things at politicians has been a preferred form of protest in France, a silent protest, a French kiss of sorts without using your tong. Since President Emmanuel Macron got into office in 2016, he has been slapped and hit by Tomatoes, Pies, strawberries, Clergy, and Eggs.; you would think President Macron should wear head coverage in public, not ban them. The French crusade against Muslim dress has been a modern form of Orientalism, where the West has been trying to liberate Muslim women from themselves since the French colonial era in the Muslim world. Every year at the end of summer, when students return to school in…
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THE KISS OF DEATH!
TweetThe Kiss of Death Luis Rubiales, Spanish Football Federation chief, is resigning after the kiss scandal. Luis Rubiales kissed star player Jenni Hermoso on the lips as he handed the Spanish team gold medals last month, provoking outrage and protests from Spanish national players and the sports community, resulting in a global reckoning and turmoil. A few minutes before the Kiss, it didn’t help to see Mr. Rubiales grabbing his crotch as a victory gesture at the exclusive section sitting with Queen Letizia of Spain and 16-year-old Princess Sofia nearby. During his press conference, Mr. Rubiales repeatedly refused to resign and got a standing ovation.
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OPPENHEIMER, AND THE TREASON OF THE INTELLECTUALS!!
TweetOppenheimer and The Treason of the Intellectuals! History taught us that Intellectuals mostly commit treasons because they can easily justify them, from those who stood against revolutions in France to those who stood against revolutions in Arab Spring. Those intellectuals justified wars, supported kings and dictators, and counter-revolutions. The French essayist Julien Benda, in an essay published in 1927, “La Trahison des clercs,” is an attack on the intellectual corruption of the age. Thanks to such men, Benda wrote, “Humanity did evil for two thousand years but honored good.”. However, our modern civilization slipped to honor hatred, nationalism, and racism, when man now substituted action over the idea, and success…
