I never heard of this idiot, but from what I read he was a typical leftist. Easily seduced by any revolutionary rhetoric. Its not much of a walk to see why France and other leftist in this country are of no help in the WOT.
"Foucault understood, and this to his credit, that Iran was witnessing a singular kind of revolution. Early on, he predicted that this revolution would not follow the model of other modern revolutions. He wrote that it was organized around a sharply different concept, which he called "spiritual politics." Foucault recognized the enormous power of the new discourse of militant Islam, not just for Iran, but globally. He showed that the new Islamist movement aimed at a fundamental cultural, social, as well as political break with the modern Western order, as well as with the Soviet Union and China."
He seems to have failed twice. First, he didn't take a very good look at islam. The home-made religion has served to keep its believers locked in the middle ages for fourteen hundred years precisely because it is by definition fanatical and anti-modern. The people who spread the religion have only done so to further their own political agenda, shielding their barbarity in the shadow of Muhammeds barbarity. Whenever he did something openly revolting and evil, suddenly a voice from allah would tell him it was o.k., and anything he (Muhammed) had said earlier that contridicted what he was now saying was hereby revised. Muhammed pulled allah out of his back pocket when he needed to.
Foucault's second error was that he doesn't understand that there are no shortcuts to freedom. If you boil down the US constitution to a few main points: free press, keep and bear arms, free religion, etc, you get the fundamental building blocks of a free society. Without them, you're just going to end up with another totalitarian state. Islam has no tradition of cherishing any freedoms, let alone all of them.