Thursday, 11 September 2008


Bogus Outrage: Why Some Are Criticized over Nazism and Others Are Not

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Gianni Alemanno, the Mayor of Rome, has got into trouble again for having made remarks which have beeninterpreted as favourable to fascism. Shortly after his election as Mayor in May, Alemanno was trapped by an English journalist into saying that not everything Mussolini did was evil: the headline above his piece attributed to him remarks he had not made. The same thing has happened now with an interview in the liberal Milan daily, Corriere della sera. Alemanno said that some people supported fascism in good faith and that the regime itself was not “absolute evil”. What was absolutely evil, he said, were the racial laws of 1938 and the concessions thereby made to Nazism.

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Europe for Africans: Is Robert Mugabe a Hero?

The leader of Afrikan Youth in Norway (yes, we have several state-sponsored organizations for Africans in Norway), the Norwegian-Nigerian (at least that's the official term, he appears to think more as a Nigerian than as a Norwegian) Sam Chimaobi Ahamba suggests that Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe is a freedom fighter, and that the Western media focus on him stems from Western (meaning white racist) anger at an African freedom fighter. "Yes, people get beat up and women get raped, but this happens in all countries, not just in Zimbabwe. But only Zimbabwe generates this incredible media attention," says Ahamba.

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