Posted: Jan 18, 2015 9:46 am
epepke wrote:
So I don't think that snarky comments about double standards of the French, as if they were a complete monolith, don't really make any sense.
Agreed, what’s more it’s getting to the point where arguments over the hebdo attack are becoming conflated with double standards arguments. The fact is that the attack made on Charlie hebdo was not in response to the French double standards but for reasons of islamic religious intolerance.
It’s as if the double standards complaint is being used as some sort of vague excuse for the attack. Double standards are an anathema, but they were not the reason nor an excuse for the attacks.