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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 27, 2020, 3:46 am
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       Unchanged. Le Pen has criticized Macron for still not being
       Islamophobic enough despite Macron's recent insane Islamophobia.
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: Prite Date: October 27, 2020, 11:10 am
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       [quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=33.msg1806#msg1806
       date=1603788370]
       Unchanged. Le Pen has criticized Macron for still not being
       Islamophobic enough despite Macron's recent insane Islamophobia.
       [/quote]
       Would it be better if Jean-Luc Mélenchon won?
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: guest5 Date: October 27, 2020, 12:46 pm
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       [quote author=Prite link=topic=33.msg1808#msg1808
       date=1603815045]
       [quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=33.msg1806#msg1806
       date=1603788370]
       Unchanged. Le Pen has criticized Macron for still not being
       Islamophobic enough despite Macron's recent insane Islamophobia.
       [/quote]
       Would it be better if Jean-Luc Mélenchon won?
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon
       [/quote]
       Have not read his entire wiki page yet but just skimming through
       it this stuck out to me, interesting:
       [quote]Mélenchon has himself his vision of populism, which he
       sees as positive if it comes with a left ideology. He is
       inspired by the philosopher Chantal Mouffe, who sought to
       theorise and rehabilitate the term "left populism". This theory
       argues that neoliberalism and austerity only made the far-right
       stronger and that the word "people" has to be reintroduced into
       the political sphere in a civic sense rather than an ethnic way
       (creating a "right populism" to fight).[/quote]
       I'm impressed by this. We need more leftists such as the type
       Melenchon is advocating for in the above sentences.
       [quote]Mélenchon has voiced his support for Rattachism.[/quote]
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattachism
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 27, 2020, 11:12 pm
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       "Would it be better if Jean-Luc Mélenchon won?"
       Not really:
       [quote]Following the killing of major general Qasem Soleimani,
       Mélenchon tweeted: "We must equally condemn the USA and Iran as
       warmongers. My condemnation of the USA does not exempt Iran from
       the fact that it is a theocracy that wants to destroy the State
       of Israel."[70] On French news channel LCI, he declared: "the
       current government of Iran claims it wants to destroy the State
       of Israel. This is an intolerable project which in itself
       creates incredible tension in the region, and obviously favors
       extremes on either side."[71][/quote]
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: guest5 Date: October 28, 2020, 12:49 am
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       Syrians protest against Macron’s anti-Muslim remarks
       [quote]People in northern Syria protested against French
       President Macron’s anti-Muslim remarks.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkvKZqM06c
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: guest5 Date: October 28, 2020, 1:25 am
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       Muslim world’s falling-out with France deepens: Live news
       [quote]Tens of thousands protest in Dhaka, Saudi Arabia weighs
       in, and Iran summons diplomat over France’s treatment of
       Islam.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/27/world-reaction-to-macron
       Iran accuses France’s Macron of fuelling ‘extremism’
       [quote]Insulting Muslims for ‘abhorrent crimes of such
       extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech’,
       Iranian FM Zarif says.[/quote]
       [quote]“Muslims are the primary victims of the ‘cult of hatred’
       – empowered by colonial regimes & exported by their own
       clients,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/26/iran-accuses-frances-macron-of-fuelling-extremism
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 29, 2020, 3:58 pm
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  HTML https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201029-malaysian-ex-pm-mahathir-says-muslims-have-right-to-kill-french
       [quote]"The French in the course of their history has killed
       millions of people. Many were Muslims. Muslims have a right to
       be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres
       of the past."
       Mahathir, who served as Malaysian premier twice for a total of
       24 years, said that French President Emmanuel Macron was "not
       showing that he is civilised", adding he was "very primitive".
       "The French should teach their people to respect other people's
       feelings. Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims'
       religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have
       a right to punish the French.
       "The boycott cannot compensate the wrongs committed by the
       French all these years."[/quote]
       To elaborate, France is still using the same flag as it used
       during the colonial era:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_flags
       and still keeping in its museums the stuff it stole during the
       colonial era. How then can the French expect to be seen by
       default as anything other than people proud of their colonial
       past, and treated accordingly? If France wants change, it should
       start by changing its flag:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/flag-decolonization/
       and returning all stolen property:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/museum-decolonization/
       #Post#: 1927--------------------------------------------------
       China and Africa Relations
       By: guest5 Date: November 1, 2020, 12:39 pm
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       Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective”
       [quote]Gyude Moore speaks about China’s expanding presence in
       Africa at the Paulson Institute's Contemporary China Speakers
       Series on March 5, 2019.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k
       [quote]
       King LY
       1 day ago
       Western countries telling African nations what's good or bad for
       them is an insult to Africans' intelligence really. [/quote]
       [quote]
       Dico
       1 month ago (edited)
       Very informative and a elogquent speaker.
       I remember this talk by this lady who said this: Chinese company
       vs Western company in Africa. Chinese engineers stayed in almost
       quarter like bunks and only return to China every 3~6 months.
       The western engineers stayed in 5 star hotels and return home
       every month with first or business class flights and all kinds
       of perks'. Damn, now I know why the Chinese are cheaper and why
       the west is so pissed with China! [/quote]
       [quote]Nimue
       1 day ago
       I mean as a Chinese I too cringe at racist people in my country,
       but the racism in the US is on a whole other level [/quote]
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       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 4, 2020, 1:53 pm
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       Good work:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/stung-number-moderate-muslims-irked-160015164.html
       [quote]France was stung into launching a charm offensive to
       quell anti-French sentiment in some Muslim countries after
       receiving tens of thousands of messages of indignation from
       moderate believers on a government website, say reports.
       The French foreign ministry was said to be taken aback by the
       scale of accusations of “colonial arrogance” on its Arabic
       Facebook page from around 50,000 people from various countries.
       Usually, the site receives a few dozen likes or comments.
       [/quote]
       #Post#: 1983--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Diplomatic decolonization
       By: guest5 Date: November 4, 2020, 5:52 pm
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       Well, all things considered and not advocating for increased
       reproduction of humans here, but at-least 25% of the world's
       population is Muslim! We can thank God for that much!  ;D
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