EURO-UNION POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.
Part II. West has to re-educate its own xenophobes and racists, rather
than Russia
Norway and Holland are considered to be the model countries for
the contemporary Europe. The wealthiest, the most tolerant, the most "free"
(drugs are legalized, same-sex marriages — too). Correspondent TV-channel
offices of these countries are regularly sending the news clips concerning
interethnic conflicts, skinheads etc. back home. But few people know that these
very "model" countries are having fierce debates regarding prohibition
of Koran or deportation of the immigrants into the filtration
centers at the African territory.
Continuation. Beginning is given here:
http://www.win.ru/en/school/4436.phtml
Problem-free Holland: "Mozart" Wilders is dreaming
of prohibiting Koran
European ultra-nationalists are united with the hatred towards the "aliens".
The evidences of this hatred are most acute in the countries with the
large number of "aliens". First of all, it is those
immigrants who are unwilling or unable to integrate into the social
life of the country of their residence, who are ascribed
to be "aliens". Dutch immigration policy resulted in the
emergence of the some sort of ghettos, inhabited by the people
who came into the country in search of happiness, but failed
to find it. Dutch immigration model, adopted in 1979 was
considered to be exemplary up until the 90s. Its main idea was
the state support of the immigrants’ cultural development —
in exchange the state expected them to be loyal and to obey
the laws of the country that sheltered them. These hopes, however, weren’t
destined to come true.
Pim Fortuyn, Professor of the Erasmus University Rotterdam who was also
openly gay, was the first one to protest against this policy —
he started his political career from founding the Leefbaar
Nederland1 Party in 2001. At the
very first elections, Fortuyn’s party achieved impressive results, having won
the Rotterdam city council elections with the 36% of the votes —
after that its founder was expelled from it for his politically incorrect
anti-Islamic statements. New Fortuyn’s party "Pim Fortuyn List" has instantly
leaped to the second place at the public opinion polls, while Pim
himself was assassinated by certain Volkert van der Graaf. Killer
explained the first Dutch political assassination for the last 400 years with
the wish to protect Muslims from the role of "scapegoats". Murderer
was convicted to 18 years of imprisonment and Fortuyn’s party
placed second at the parliamentary elections, having entered the ruling
coalition. In less than a year, however, the coalition collapsed and
the party has lost the following elections.
In two years Holland was astounded by yet another political
assassination: director Theo Van Gogh who shot an anti-Islamic movie was
killed. At this background another political person appeared — Geert
Wilders. In 2004 he left the liberal People’s Party for Freedom and
Democracy due to the inner-party controversies concerning the Turkish
membership in the European Union. In 2006 new party, founded
by Wilders, took part in the parliamentary elections and obtained
more than half a million votes, which gave him 9 deputy mandates and
the fifth largest parliamentary fraction. Policy postulates of the
Wilders’ party included expelling Bulgaria and Romania from the European Union,
mass deportation of immigrants from Holland, decreasing
of the EU influence on the Dutch domestic policy, prohibition
to build mosques or Muslim schools, prohibition to wear paranjas
and hijabs and even de-legalization of Koran (by the example
of Hitler’s "Mein Kampf").
Geert "Mozart" (he got this nickname for his haircut) was born
in 1963 in the city of Venlo, not far from the border with the
FRG. During his youth he was an active participant of the
Catholic movement. Now he states that he is protecting the
"Judeo-Christian values" from the islamization that threats Europe. Here are
few policy statements of Wilders: "I hate violence"; "I am
protecting the freedom that may disappear if the Muslim ideology will
consolidate its grip over this country"; "This is my mission, and I’m
personally paying high price for bringing it into life. You may call
it whatever you like, but it’s neither easy nor pleasant"; "I have
the ambitions: I’d like to become a Prime-Minister. We don’t
want to stay in opposition forever".
In June of last year, Wilders’ party placed second at the
elections to the European parliament, having obtained 4 seats out
of 25 that were allotted to Holland. In March
of current year Wilders’ party placed first at the municipal
elections in Almere and second in Hague. Recent public opinion polls
grant 22 to 24% of electoral support to Wilders. This means
that his party may become the second largest power in the Dutch
parliament, i. e. it has all the chances to enter the coalition
government. Acting circumspectly to these processes, effective Dutch
government is gradually intensifying the immigration policy. Requirement
for the minimum allowed income for the Dutch citizens, requesting
a citizenship for his/her spouse may be an example
of that.
Geert Wilders is decisively denying any accusations of fascism,
calling himself a democrat. He considers Margaret Thatcher
to be his ideal, dissociating himself from politicians like
Le Pen or Jörg Haider. Dutch elections are approaching. So far,
no ultra-right populist had ever managed to stay at the top
of political Olympus in any European country. The months to come
are about to show whether Wilders is a serious politician with
his own vision of the national development or he is just
using the voters’ fear for the "aliens" for his own mercenary ends.
Norwegian-style progress: "humanitarian" plan
of deporting immigrants to Africa
Progress and freedom are the common mottos, written across the banners
of parties that are usually considered to be ultra-nationalistic
in Europe. Norwegian kind of this parties place progress first, which
is expressed by its very name:
"Fremskrittspartiet"(Frp)2.
Scandinavians usually act, having glanced at the neighbors. This habit
of looking over the neighbor’s fence led to the transplantation
of the Danish idea to create new political power — Progress
Party — to the Norwegian soil. That was the name of the Danish
party, which became a role model for the Norwegians. In 1973 Anders
Lange found the party with hard-to-pronounce name "Anders Lange’s Party for
a Strong Reduction in Taxes, Duties and Public Intervention"
in Oslo. Until 1977 party existed under this name, and then it was
changed to the "Progress Party".
At the very first parliamentary elections, Lange’s party obtained
4 Stortinget3 mandates out of 165.
Later South African Republic proclaimed that Lange’s electioneering was
partially financed by the South African apartheid regime. In 1977
Progress Party was defeated and didn’t get into the parliament but after four
years it was back again. So since 1981 and until the very day
Progress Party had its representatives in the Stortinget. After Lange’s
death in 1974 and until 2006 party was headed by Carl Hagen who
actually brought this anti-immigrant shade into the partisan policy. This
happened in the 80s when it turned out that the state was spending
significant amounts of budgetary money for the immigrants’ integration
into the Norwegian society.
Ultra-nationalists slyly played at the electorate feelings of the
social justice, having condemned the authorities for incompetently spent funds
and creation of the additional privileges for the immigrants, including
even the out-of-turn acquiring of the social apartments. At the
present time party is headed by Siv Jensen. Being a graduate
of Norwegian Higher Business School, she went through all the steps
of the partisan career. In 1997 she became a parliament member,
two years after — the first Vice-Chair of the party and leader
of the parliamentary fraction. As it behoves a modern
Norwegian woman, she is single.
Program, posted at the party web-site resembles liberalism classics. Tax
reduction is the ground of the progressionists’ economic program:
"In the modern society prosperity is restrained with the tax burden,
high production cost price and the state intervention".
Besides that, "progressionists" offer to decentralize the administration,
privatize the state sector, impose the flat scale of the income tax and
also invest the profits from the oil and gas sale into the creation of the
infrastructure. Having left the responsibility for the health care to the
state, party, however, offers to give citizens the right to choose
between paid and free medicine. Though, such postulates are not something
exceptional for Norway at all.
Progress Party’ attitude towards immigrants and the related security issues
makes it much more recognizable. Siv Jensen states the need to limit
the financing of the free health care for the immigrants. Norwegian
newspaper "Verdens Gang" reported that Per-Willy Amundsen, political spokesman
of the Progress Party, suggested rather exotic idea of creating the
Norwegian camps for the refugees in the African countries. Those refugees
that can’t be assimilated by the Norwegian society are, allegedly,
to be contained there at the expense of the Norwegian
government. Prior to the elections of 2009 Jensen herself was
cautioning everyone of the "creeping islamization" of the country.
"Progressionists" were also indignant with the protest of one of the
Muslims, serving his sentence at the Trondheim prison. He saw the
religious discrimination in the fact the he discovered pork
in the prison diet.
According to the results of parliamentary elections
of September, 2009 Progress Party examined the possibility
of creating the extensive coalition of Frp, Conservative Party,
Christian Democrats and Social Liberals. However, this four failed to form
a government even in spite of the best Frp result in its
history — 22.9%. It was the socialists who formed the government.
Still, Progress Party is successively preparing to come into power
in 2013 and they expect to dismiss socialist Jens Stoltenberg from
ruling the country. In 1990-91 representative of the party was
an Oslo mayor. At the present time "progressionists" head
17 municipal districts including the ones at the major cities
of Bergen and Fredrikstad. Party also has quite strong positions
in the south-west of the country, at the Rogaland and Vest-Agder
provinces.
In future, coming of Siv Jensen’s party to the power
is quite probable. Social displeasure with the immigration, especially
with the one coming from the Muslim countries, is rising. Skilful use
of these electoral sentiments by the ultra-right nationalists may
lead to their victory at the 2013 elections and then European Union
may face the same problem that emerged in Austria in 2000.
By Gregory Tinsky
To be continued
1 Livable
Netherlands.
2 Progress Party.
3 Norwegian parliament.
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