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France's Le Pen Bids Adieu to National Front Party
By not in system - AOL NewsTOURS, France -- France's right-wing firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen bid adieu Saturday to the National Front party he founded nearly 40 years ago with an impassioned defense of his polemic anti-immigration, anti-Islam platform. In his final speech as party president, the 82-year-old nationalist was unapologetic, insisting that "unceasing immigration" poses a threat to the French way of life. Le Pen harped on what he sees as the transformation of "Christian and secular France in an unbelieving France on the path of Islamization." He appealed to his audience of some 1,800 supporters, saying it ...
Marine Le Pen: Softer Face of Racism in France?
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France -- This country's most notorious political party, the far-right National Front, will soon have a new boss for the first time since it was founded nearly 40 years ago by Jean-Marie Le Pen, known for his anti-Semitic views. Some say the charismatic, blond, twice-divorced mother of three expected to succeed him may modernize the party -- but is not unlike the old boss. After all, she's his daughter. Her own mother has even called her his "clone." Marine Le Pen, 42, is expected to be elected head of the National Front at a party convention this weekend. Francois Lo Presti, ...
Islamophobia Imported From Europe: An Ugly Trend Gets Uglier
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyAmong the many strange things this ugly August has wrought, perhaps the most peculiar -- and distasteful -- is a new kinship of intolerance many Americans now seem to share with Europeans. As born out by the "Ground Zero mosque" controversy, it is a fellowship of hate and of fear, a fellowship we once would have spurned because Americans, by self-definition, believe in religious freedom, in religious pluralism, in multicultural identities, in a nation up built by the immigrant experience. For many years, anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe, embodied by protests against mosque minarets and ...
Neo-Nazis No Longer? Marine Le Pen Tones Down France's Far Right
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyThe father of the French far-right National Front Party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a famously Holocaust-minimizing (he called the Nazi occupation of France "not particularly inhumane"), anti-immigrant and anti-European Union leader, is teetering toward retirement. But not before the National Front has yet another phoenix-like return from sworn obsolescence. Political commentators throughout the middle of the last decade promised that the tough immigration policies of President Nicholas Sarkozy (at times so aggressive they seem pulled directly from the playbook of the extreme right) would siphon off ...
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