The former IMF head, Strauss, it appears, maybe innocent of rape charges that unseated him after all. The American media, which paraded him in handcuffs and crucified him with talks and innuendos of past sexual escapades, which shocked even the liberal French public,appear once again to have been caught with their pants down.
Of course, the media will very quickly do an about turn, after all this talk of the innocence of a religious maid who was subdued and taken advantage of by the monstrous Strauss. What is the media going to do?
What it does best, I guess—scuttle off quietly, convince themselves that they were only doing their job, and go look for another victim. It is interesting that all this came about the day after Lagarde was named his successor.
More importantly, if Strauss does run for the French presidency and win, what would happen to American-French relationship, and how will the French ever forget the picture of their President, “walked” in handcuffs, unshaven, to an from court hundreds of times on TV?
People are looking for charismatic leaders, sound-natured people will affliate charisma to good character (akhlaq-u-l-hasanah)while the ill-natured will affliate it to otherwise. "There is for you an excellent example (to follow) in Abraham and those with him" (Quran, 60: 6). I wonder how a shepard will control thousands when he cannot control "some" wild sheeps inside him.
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