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Is France going fascist? Extreme-right National Front is now the most popular party
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015 08:00 AM EST
France's popular anti-immigrant party was founded by fascist Holocaust denier whose daughter may be next president
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The National Front runs on a harshly anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim platform. Le Pen, who vociferously opposes France providing asylum to Middle Eastern refugees, wants to reduce immigration by 2,000 percent and make it much more difficult for migrants already in the country to attain citizenship. The FN says it has zero tolerance for undocumented immigrants, and hopes to ban dual nationality for non-Europeans. The far-right party also wants priority to be given to French citizens over foreigners for jobs and social programs.
Since the January and November Paris attacks, the latter for which ISIS claimed responsibility, the National Front has rapidly grown in popularity. The extreme-right party has capitalized upon the incidents, portraying them as confirmation of its narrative that Muslims, and even the religion of Islam itself, have supposedly declared war upon the West.
The party has employed such xenophobic, right-wing populist rhetoric for years. In 2010, Le Pen compared French Muslims praying in the street to Nazis in German-occupied Vichy France. The irony of this comparison is that the founder of the National Front, Marine’s father Jean-Marie Le Pen, is himself a Holocaust denier with ties to neo-Nazi groups.
In 2008, Jean-Marie was found guilty of Holocaust denial, which is a crime in many European countries. Jean-Marie, still to this day, insists that the Nazi gas chambers were a mere “detail of history.” He has also defended French Nazi collaborators, and early members of his FN were former collaborators. According to the FN founder, the Nazi occupation of France — under which Jews, communists, and the mentally ill were executed — was “not particularly inhuman.”
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Link: http://www.salon.com/2015/12/08/is_france_going_fascist_extreme_right_national_front_is_now_the_most_popular_party/
France's popular anti-immigrant party was founded by fascist Holocaust denier whose daughter may be next president
...
The National Front runs on a harshly anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim platform. Le Pen, who vociferously opposes France providing asylum to Middle Eastern refugees, wants to reduce immigration by 2,000 percent and make it much more difficult for migrants already in the country to attain citizenship. The FN says it has zero tolerance for undocumented immigrants, and hopes to ban dual nationality for non-Europeans. The far-right party also wants priority to be given to French citizens over foreigners for jobs and social programs.
Since the January and November Paris attacks, the latter for which ISIS claimed responsibility, the National Front has rapidly grown in popularity. The extreme-right party has capitalized upon the incidents, portraying them as confirmation of its narrative that Muslims, and even the religion of Islam itself, have supposedly declared war upon the West.
The party has employed such xenophobic, right-wing populist rhetoric for years. In 2010, Le Pen compared French Muslims praying in the street to Nazis in German-occupied Vichy France. The irony of this comparison is that the founder of the National Front, Marine’s father Jean-Marie Le Pen, is himself a Holocaust denier with ties to neo-Nazi groups.
In 2008, Jean-Marie was found guilty of Holocaust denial, which is a crime in many European countries. Jean-Marie, still to this day, insists that the Nazi gas chambers were a mere “detail of history.” He has also defended French Nazi collaborators, and early members of his FN were former collaborators. According to the FN founder, the Nazi occupation of France — under which Jews, communists, and the mentally ill were executed — was “not particularly inhuman.”
cont'd...
Link: http://www.salon.com/2015/12/08/is_france_going_fascist_extreme_right_national_front_is_now_the_most_popular_party/
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