Sunday, July 12, 2009

Open Yoghourts

Much fun has been made of French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner inadvertently calling the Uighurs the "Yoghourts" several times during a France Info radio interview.


But no attention has been paid to a troubling aspect of one of those phrases. Here is what he said (my translation, showing the words that he stressed):
They're Muslims, the Yoghourts, and who are rather open Muslims, not at all sectarian.
So the French foreign minister feels that when he labels a people Muslim he needs to immediately differentiate them as being open and and non-sectarian? As if being closed and sectarian are somehow norms for Islam?

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