Roger L. Simon

December 8th, 2005 8:34 am

What Finkielkraut said… or didn’t…

The Bad Hair Blog has an extensive roundup of the brouhaha surrounding statements of French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut regarding the recent riots (or whatever they were) in France.

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1. Fausta:

Thank you Roger!

The interesting thing is how underreported this has been, except for the blogs, outside France.

Dec 8, 2005 - 12:28 pm 2. beautifulatrocities:

Finkielkraut’s The Defeat of the Mind is an excellent & thoughtful Enlightenment rebuttal to Levi-Strauss & multiculti relativism

Dec 8, 2005 - 2:27 pm 3. Fred:

The riots were certainly an intifada, as this IRIS post conclusively documents:

Evidence the “Paris Riots” Are Actually the “French Intifada”

Dec 13, 2005 - 8:28 am

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