For Islamic countries, the IMF is "here to help"

From Eric Dondero:

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested Saturday night for sexual assault on an African-American chamber maid at a posh NYC hotel.

As Morocco News explains (MacroMorocco.com), there had been rumors of his "imprudence" on lifestyle manners:

Apparently taking Greece up the behind wasnt enough for battyboy StraussKahn who was just hauled off a plane in New York after an alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid. IMF Director Dominique StraussKahn was arrested Saturday evening in New York on sexual assault charges...

Three Port Authority detectives pulled Dominique StraussKahn from the planes firstclass cabin just two minutes before it was due to depart for Paris the sources said.

He was widely considered the front runner in replacing French President Nicholas Sarkozy in 2012.

Backer of Islamist causes across North Africa

A bio for Dominique Strauss-Kahn notes that the IMF chief grew up in Morocco. His family moved there when he was 5. The family lived there for 8 years.

A diehard Socialist, Strauss-Kahn is an Economics professor by trade. But in 1997, he won election as Mayor to the "melting pot" city of Sarcelles, just north of Paris. The suburb is known as one of the main areas of Muslim Youth riots starting in 2005. It's also been the site of numerous attacks by Muslim Youth on local French citizens.

Strauss-Kahn has long been viewed as an Arabist, and has pushed for more taxpayer-funded bail-outs by northern European nations for Middle Eastern nations.

Helped to fund Islamist Revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia?

From Yahoo News, April 15:

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Friday that the lender stood ready to offer financial support to Arab countries like Egypt and Tunisia if they ask for it.

"We're here to help," Strauss-Kahn said at a conference on the Middle East and North Africa at IMF headquarters in Washington.

"we have to go beyond" looking at the macroeconomic picture and find ways to help build healthy economies.

"We will be on the side of the people who tried to have things go forward."

Still, he said, economic growth is vital in the battle for social justice...

Later in the article:

"For a democratic revolution, wherever it is, in Africa, in the Middle East... we're going to spend a lot of money, we're going to subsidize a lot of people," he said.

"If Arab revolutions are to be milestones in history, and I believe it can be the case, then I believe the success relies on building democratic institutions, and also labor organizations," he added.

See related LR article from 2009, "France Burns - Muslim Riots" Photo - IMF.org