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UN Racism Expert Accuses Sarkozy ... (4.00 / 4)
of 'legitimizing racism'

Of course this news wasn't reported in the english-speaking press:

"UN Racism Expert Doudou Diène addressed the General Assembly's Third Committee on social, humanitarian and cultural affairs, noting a "resurgence" in racist and xenophobic violence, as well as growing "defamation of religions." He cited racial as well as religious hatred, anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and, particularly, Islamophobia. Diène took the unusual step of criticizing French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a July 2007 speech in Dakar that allegedly stated that "Africans had not become part of history." According to Diène, this was "an example of the legitimization of racism...it recalled the essentialism of racist constructions of the 18th and 19th centuries."
UN Watch

No big surprise to anyone who followed the french elections yet it is good to see he is getting the publicity he deserves on the international stage.

by Fete des fous on Fri Nov 9th, 2007 at 01:35:59 PM EST

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