22 November 2004 Blog Home : November 2004 : Permalink
It occured to me that there could be another reason why French, Belgian and EU politicians seem to love Islamic militants. Neither group is prepared to tolerate dissent or criticism. Admitedly it seems that it is only the Islamofascists who kill their critics. The French don't kill people who point out that a certain EU comissioner was pardoned for stealing money from the French government, but do make such criticism a crime. Likewise the Belgians don't kill Flemish nationalists, they just ban them and Eurocrats just sack whistleblowers and hassle investigative journalists.
However, as our lefty friends do point out so frequently when raving about the Patriot Act and Bushitler, it's a slippery slope. First you start gagging your critics through the courts, then perhaps you decide that literal gagging is necessary, then you decide that gagging is too hard and its easier to kill them pour encourager les autres.
Of course this intolerance for free speech and criticism isn't the only point of similarity between the Euro-elite and the Islamic terrorists. Neither likes the US, nor Israel and both lots seem to believe that US style capitalism and materalism are unmitagated evils.