Geert Wilders of the far-right Dutch Party for Freedom, a fierce critic of Islam who has compared the Koran to Mein Kampf and called the Prophet Muhammad the devil, Wilders had steered clear of slurring specific Muslim communities, instead peddling a unique brand of populist conservatism that eschewed the kind of Nazi-inflected, anti-Jewish rhetoric popular among far-right groups elsewhere in Europe. But his recent fewer Moroccans comment has generated a furious backlash because it was seen as the first time he had engaged in open racism that targeted an entire group as undesirable by definition. The statement has cost him much of the sympathy he enjoyed in some quarters of the Dutch Jewish community and blurred the lines that had separated him from other European far-right leaders.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:01:37 +0000
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