Neo-fascist op-ed...New York Times! French far-right call-to-arms...

[Surya Gayatri]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/opinion/marine-le-pen-france-was-attacked-by-islamic-fundamentalism.html

Marine Le Pen is president of the National Front party (extreme Right Wing) in France.

"For now, one emergency measure can readily be put into action: Stripping jihadists of their French citizenship is an absolute necessity."
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"Laurent Fabius (French Foreign Minister) no longer even dares pronounce the real name of things.

Mr. Fabius will not describe as “Islamists” the terrorists who on Wednesday, Jan. 7, walked into the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, right in the heart of Paris.

Nor will he use “Islamic State” to describe the radical Sunni group that now controls territory in Syria and Iraq. No reference can be made to “Islamic fundamentalism,” for fear that Islam and Islamism might get conflated.
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"Second, the massive waves of immigration, both legal and clandestine, our country has experienced for decades have prevented the implementation of a proper assimilation policy."


Wow, sound familiar? She's kicking things into high gear now to capitalize on the tragedy.

Comments:

matthew
new york city 6 hours ago

how about we stop identifying people by their religion altogether? how would you feel, M. Le Pen, if you were called upon to defend every slight, every sin, every crime committed by any french person, any christian, any white person? people just want to live their lives.

chris
jersey city 13 hours ago

why is this appearing in the Times? maybe you could find a representative of al qaeda as well- I am sure they have views that some would also find valid. also there are american nazis, kkk members.....why stop with marine le pen?


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[DonCoquixote]

1. a nightmare scenario

Le Pen wins in France, Merkel remian in power in Germany. Between Cameron, Len Pen, and Merkel, there would be more than enough willpower to break the Euro. London, Berlin and paris liked an empire when it consisted of slapping Slavic people about, but they do not like having to put money into said union.

If le Pen wins, she has said she will go back to the franc. That would leave Germany as the largestnation to actually support the Euro, which means Merkel, hardly a Euro supporter,will be under pressure to drop it.

Of course, the double tragedy is that, alogn with thatcher, we will have an example of leaders who happen to be women, but govern far to the right.

[LiberalElite]

2. Some believe that if women

"ruled the world" everything would be wonderful, apparently just because they're women. I'm not one of them.