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European Conservatives Join Forces

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Posted on Jan 25, 2008

Four far-right European political parties have allied with each other, hoping to form a European Union umbrella party opposed to “Islamization” and immigration. Europeans, you see, will never give up their welfare states, so conservatives there spend much of their time bashing immigrants. Unlike America, where xenophobia is, though popular, something of a passing fancy.


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In Vienna, the heads of Austria’s Freedom Party, Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, Bulgaria’s Ataka and the French National Front said the new party would be a counter-balance to other political forces in Europe.

“We say: Patriots of all the countries of Europe, unite! Because only together will we solve our problems,” Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache said.

“Irresponsible mass immigration to Europe from outside Europe due to irresponsible politicians ... is the problem,” he said.

Asked about the chances of success of the new party, French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was also present in Vienna, said: “It’s not necessary to hope in order to try.”

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By P. T., January 28, 2008 at 12:39 am #

“So it’s the Jews’ fault the Muslims in Europe threaten their host countries?”


Threaten their host countries?  Quit stealing Hitler’s lines.

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By lilmamzer, January 27, 2008 at 5:47 pm #

“The poster made Muslims in Europe sound like a bunch of U.S.-backed Zionist ethnic cleansers.”

So it’s the Jews’ fault the Muslims in Europe threaten their host countries?

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!

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By P. T., January 27, 2008 at 2:37 pm #

Lodipete, the poster used the word “mostly,” not a minority.  Where is the proof?  The poster made Muslims in Europe sound like a bunch of U.S.-backed Zionist ethnic cleansers.

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By lodipete, January 27, 2008 at 12:30 pm #

Proof?;
  Pym Fortun,Theo Van Gogh,Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Benazir Bhutto,Salman Rushdi,Taliban,Wahabism,Danish “cartoon” riots, French riots, underreported British riots,9/11,7/7,Spanish train bombing.

Do unto others BEFORE they do it to you.

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By P. T., January 26, 2008 at 3:43 pm #

“But left-wingers should oppose the immigrants for entirely different reasons, because they are mostly religious fundamentalists who will impose a nightmarish theocracy”


Proof?

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By royf, January 26, 2008 at 2:28 pm #

Bill Maher said it best: Don’t be so tolerant that you are even tolerant of intolerance.

With the issue of Muslim immigrants in Europe, it has become all muddled as far as who is right-wing and who is left-wing.

Lower middle class right wingers (Archie Bunker types, for those old enough to remember “All in the Family”) oppose the immigrants for their usual reasons, because they are xenophobic and hate the poor.  They vote for rich right-wing politicians who use bait-and-switch, who imply that they will redistribute wealth from the poor to the middle class by ending welfare.  Instead, they redistribute wealth from both the poor and middle class to the rich, but those stupid Archie Bunker types never seem to catch on.

But left-wingers should oppose the immigrants for entirely different reasons, because they are mostly religious fundamentalists who will impose a nightmarish theocracy when, due to their high birthrate, they eventually become a majority of voters.  That will happen just decades from now in France, the country in most danger.

Instead, stupid left-wing politicians act politically correct, confusing religious ideology with ethnicity, and lose elections.  Some left-wing voters, with no better choice, vote for those right-wing politicians, because they’re the only ones opposing the immigrants, even if for the wrong reasons.  And then those right-wing politicians impose their right-wing economic policies on everyone, not just on those immigrants.

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By P. T., January 26, 2008 at 1:52 am #

What specifically in the article is untrue?

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By lodipete, January 26, 2008 at 1:11 am #

A european conservative like the one murdered in Holland usually stands for things like Gay rights,women’s rights, free press, freedom of thought and lots of other nasty “conservative” things. That’s why one of Allah’s warriors murdered him. Leave it to the BBC to come up with this politically correct trash.

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By P. T., January 25, 2008 at 10:35 pm #

Immigrants are used to undermine welfare states.  That’s the idea.

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