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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 ...
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 ...
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