There has been lately a lot of huffing and puffing from both Muslims and the right-wing Judaeo-Christian blogsphere over Geert Wilders film entitled "Fitna".
For the most part the Muslim reaction to the incendiary Dutch politician's film has been muted. Our nightly news broadcasts have not been abound with images from Muslim rioters across the globe baying for the blood of Geert Wilders, his family or anything Dutch.
I am sure that the lack of a violent response from the Muslim community worldwide has really disappointed the right-wing Judaeo-Christian blogsphere.
Just the thought of a Geert Wilders film on Islam I am sure has sent many a right-wing Judaeo-Christian bigot into an orgasmic frenzy of Islam bashing. If questioned as to why they support the film I am sure that many of these "experts on Islam" will say that they are support and defend Geert Wilders right to freely express himself.
Talking about freedom of expression last week a senior French civil servant by the of name Bruno Guigue was dismissed from his post by the Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie.
It appears that Bruno Guigue's "crime" seems to be that he expressed himself pretty much like Geert Wilders over the internet but in Guigue's case he lost his job:
"A French senior civil servant has been sacked for publishing a violent anti-Israeli diatribe on a web site, the interior ministry said.Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern town of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was "the only state where snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates."The author of several books on the Israli-Palestinian conflict, Guigue wrote of the "Israeli jails where -- thanks to religious law -- they stop torturing on the Sabbath."Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie dismissed the official after learning of the column on Wednesday, the ministry said." (Source:
AFP)
I wonder how many in the right-wing Judaeo-Christian blogosphere will be just as eager to support Bruno Guigue's freedom of expression and views as they are to support Geert Wilder's freedom of expression and his views?
Maybe the problem here is not the freedom of expression but rather the freedom to incite and target. In Geert Wilders case those being incited against and being targeted are Muslim. Where as in Bruno Guigue case those being exposed are the Israeli state.
For Geert Wilders the right wing Judaeo-Christian blogspehere only has praise. But for Bruno Guigue I am sure they only have hate.
Maybe it is an underlying hatred of Islam and Muslims that primarily drives those in the right-wing Judaeo-Christian blogsphere to support Geert Wilders rather than any notional love for the freedom of expression.