So, in Turkey it is a crime to say that the Turks of 1915 slaughtered Armenians in genocidal proportions. A crime against Turkishness is the strange way this is described.

France, yesterday, in its lower house, made it a crime while in France to deny that the Turks had so slaughtered.

Turks in France demonstrated for their right to deny (reality) and the French parliamentarians are happy to have struck a blow for thought control by law.

Of course it is on such stupidities that history is built. The Turks’ interest in being part of the EU will recede and interest in being part of caliphate revanchism will grow. The French will be sated in their pride. Why before you know it George W Bush will be exchanging coded text-messages with French pages….

French MPs Pass Genocide Denial Law

In a nice bit of irony, Orhan Pamuk, Turk, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pamuk was the first of 3 (I believe) Turkish writers brought up on trial for defaming Turkishness in his writing.