Fuel for the Fire
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With the rise of the far-right taking Europe like wild fire the eastern parts of Europe are falling fast. Hungary has long been a flirt when it comes to the Nazi style politics spreading westward. Worst yet, Hungary has a long past as a fascist conspirator (hence their arrow flag and arm bands). And that history just doesn't seem to want to go away.
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Hajduhadhaz, a small town of around 13,000 people is just the next battle field for the far-right in Hungary. With the government's recent law linking welfare (a source of income that many Hungarians rely upon) payments to the cleanliness of your home and property. This fascist inspired law was directed by the far-right to target the Romani living in places like Hajduhadhaz.
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One Rom, Balint Bernath claims that the government makes it a habit to come into their homes and check their bathrooms and toilets. He also claims that a neighbor lost his welfare payments because a snooping official found a single spot of dog excrement in his yard. It isn't clear if the government is enforcing this law on all Hungarians or only the Roma minority.
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It is clear however that in places like Hajduhadhaz the far-right political party Jobbik is calling the shots. The parliamentary deputy, 32 year-old Gergely Rubi, for example. People like him claim that the Roma, and the Roma alone, are the cause for all ills that have befallen Hungary. He claims that the Roma are thieves, rapist, violent criminals, and just plain plunderers and pillagers.
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Mr. Rubi does not however admit that the policies his party is pushing have suppressed the local economies by restricting the ability of the common man to start up business or engage in business of his own choosing. Instead his party has sought to restore their mythically pure Magyar race back to its position of authority in Hungary. So like the Nazi's Aryans, the Jobbik party is attempting to divide the races and conquer the minorities.
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One portion of the Jobbik argument claims that the Roma are outsiders in the belief that they are "pagans", "Muslims", or even "witches". However in Hajduhadhaz the Roma are seemingly flocking the new Pentecostal Church. They are "finding religion" in the depths of economic repression. And this in a way feeds the Jobbik belief that the Roma are outsiders. The Jobbik party flocks to the old Calvinist Church.
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As of late the differences between the two not so different ethnic groups (most Roma are not nomadic anymore due the old policies of the Communist Eastern Block). Jobbik has set up programmes through out the Hungarian countryside. Their goal is clear, if only to them, to restore "law and order". To the outsiders (us and the Roma) their goal is even more clear... to defeat and destroy an entire ethnic group... genocide.
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Unlike the good old days of Hungarian socialism and even communism these days at least some of the criminals are being brought to justice (or a version of it). Trials of Hungarian murders are scheduled to begin soon. However these small steps are most likely just to appease the EU and UN. It is unclear as of now if the Hungarian government will actually make any real strides in stopping the Jobbik party and its plans for more pogroms. Or if Hungary will simply respond to the crimes after the fact.
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"They now face sentences between 15 years and life in prison, depending on their degree of culpability. The case greatly exacerbated the atmosphere at the time, Roma people even prepared to emigrate en masse," said Attila Petöfi of the Hungarian National Bureau of Investigation.
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Kill and maim people based on race and hatred for an entire people in Hungary and you might get off with just 15 years. A portion of that might not even be served in prison either. This is why I am sceptical about Hungarian commitment to stopping the Jobbik fascist and their demented minions.
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Source Documents
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435803.stm
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Romea.cz
http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=detail&detail=2007_2290
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AP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gCz5qY2k_d0HERoJBBkszj0UwlGQ?docId=c3e91b5a8d184e48a1b45bf69d1d5a89
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Caboodle.Hu
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=8899
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March 26, 2011
March 3, 2011
A Message To My Friends... Part Two.
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Get Out.
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Dutch are again ready to send the message to their Jewish community. This time however the far right are attempting to use the law of the land to ban Jewish practices. This would make it nearly impossible to be a dedicated Jew in Holland.
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The last time around they were simply telling the Jews to get out by telling them to leave for Israel or America. Now the Dutch Parliament is trying to outlaw the ancient and central practice of shechitah (ritual slaughter of animals for consumption). Without this practice it is impossible for the Dutch Jews to adhere to the Kosher dietary laws. And thus it impossible for dedicated Jews to live in Holland.
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This is not the first time this sort of law has come up either. In December of 2010 the European Union struck down a proposed law on the practice due to its anti Semitic qualities. That law would have forced all kosher meats to be labeled as "meat from slaughter without stunning". And it would have made it impossible for Jews to purchase their meat without being identified as being a Jew.
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Now Holland is pushing for this law so as to make it impossible for Jews in Holland to purchase their meat at all. It would also make it impossible for Muslims in Holland to purchase meat from animals slaughtered in the Islamic halal method. And for the Dutch PVV Freedom Party (an extremely far right party) this is simply an animal rights issue (the PVD Party proposed the bill, they too are considered far right).
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Non European Union countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania already ban the shechita practice. However it is also important to note that countries such as Sweden and Norway have the largest number of "nationalist" political parties in Europe. But of course we are supposed to believe that these "open minded" countries simply put these bans in place due to "animal welfare" and "animal rights" reasons. Aren't we?
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The simple fact is that anti Semitic attacks continue to rise in numbers and frequency in Europe as the populous of these countries swing toward a 1920's style socialist agenda. This attack on the kosher dietary laws is simply a stepping stone to banning Judaism altogether. Let us not forget that even before Hitler began his "Final Solution" his government initially banned kosher practices.
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Source Documents for this Post.
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JTA, The Global News Service of the Jewish People.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/02/20/2743044/dutch-parliament-to-consider-shechita-ban-bill
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Meatinfo.co.uk
http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/12465/Holland_moves_to_ban_non-stun_ritual_slaughter_.html
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European Jewish Press
http://www.ejpress.org/article/49164
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Get Out.
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Dutch are again ready to send the message to their Jewish community. This time however the far right are attempting to use the law of the land to ban Jewish practices. This would make it nearly impossible to be a dedicated Jew in Holland.
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The last time around they were simply telling the Jews to get out by telling them to leave for Israel or America. Now the Dutch Parliament is trying to outlaw the ancient and central practice of shechitah (ritual slaughter of animals for consumption). Without this practice it is impossible for the Dutch Jews to adhere to the Kosher dietary laws. And thus it impossible for dedicated Jews to live in Holland.
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This is not the first time this sort of law has come up either. In December of 2010 the European Union struck down a proposed law on the practice due to its anti Semitic qualities. That law would have forced all kosher meats to be labeled as "meat from slaughter without stunning". And it would have made it impossible for Jews to purchase their meat without being identified as being a Jew.
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Now Holland is pushing for this law so as to make it impossible for Jews in Holland to purchase their meat at all. It would also make it impossible for Muslims in Holland to purchase meat from animals slaughtered in the Islamic halal method. And for the Dutch PVV Freedom Party (an extremely far right party) this is simply an animal rights issue (the PVD Party proposed the bill, they too are considered far right).
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Non European Union countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania already ban the shechita practice. However it is also important to note that countries such as Sweden and Norway have the largest number of "nationalist" political parties in Europe. But of course we are supposed to believe that these "open minded" countries simply put these bans in place due to "animal welfare" and "animal rights" reasons. Aren't we?
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The simple fact is that anti Semitic attacks continue to rise in numbers and frequency in Europe as the populous of these countries swing toward a 1920's style socialist agenda. This attack on the kosher dietary laws is simply a stepping stone to banning Judaism altogether. Let us not forget that even before Hitler began his "Final Solution" his government initially banned kosher practices.
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Source Documents for this Post.
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JTA, The Global News Service of the Jewish People.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/02/20/2743044/dutch-parliament-to-consider-shechita-ban-bill
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Meatinfo.co.uk
http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/12465/Holland_moves_to_ban_non-stun_ritual_slaughter_.html
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European Jewish Press
http://www.ejpress.org/article/49164
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February 21, 2011
And the Jackboots Go Marching On...
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And On... And On...
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Jobbik... in one word this nationalistic Hungarian political party can be summed up as "Racist". Like their ancestors, the Hungarian Guard, these Nazi minions are on a mission. To seek and destroy their enemies. Enemies they label as "damn Gypsies" and the looming "Left". (Quotes taken from "Attila")
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Armed with the political muscle their party has garnished in recent elections, the minions are massing. Their ignorant masses are gathering. And the jackboots are being laced up with ever growing vigor.
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In a recent posted article on Politics.Hu (Hungary) a columnist decided to attack the ever popular nationalistic party. Despite the fact that the article was far from an iron fist in a velvet glove the minions of Jobbik showed up for the battle. And their verbal abuse, if it can be called that, showed just how fervent they are when it comes to the Roma.
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But before I can get to their little verbal volleys I may need to explain Hungarian xenophobia first.
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In Hungary the Jobbik party is still rather small and at times disproportionately represented in local government. But their reach from the halls of government out onto the streets is far from "small". It is on the streets that Jobbik first grew its numbers. It was there that they found a link with the common man. And it is there that they fed the general public their racist hook, line, and sinker.
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Using the Roma as a target of opportunity, the Jobbik leaders have exploited fears that had long resided under the surface of the Hungarian public. They claim that the Roma are parasites upon the Hungarian public by associating the Roma with "welfare".
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When Jobbik leaders come before Hungarian Parliament in a Nazi era uniform (currently banned in Hungary) nobody seems to care enough to levy fines or jail the politicians. Instead the skinheads appear to be patting their "brave leader" Gábor Vona on the back. They don't even seem to mind his usual rants, rather racist in nature, about the Roma.
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This is how the racist banter of the Jobbik party resonates with their voters:
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"Vona Gábor is, was and always will (I hope) be a militant nationalist," Elle began. "You know, people who faults Vona for doing this are very short-sighted. And a society that sees the steeply climbing number of births of children for whose provision the parents rely on the state, then does not intervene, is culpably negligent. What do these people want to see happen in Hungary: something like in Brazilian, where the army or police regularly gun down the legions of abandoned street children, or human organ harvesters catch them for lucrative spare parts?
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Let’s face it: Hungary is under heavy international attack from the so-called ‘left’. The Hungarian ‘left’ appear to have friends throughout the API and the Bretton Woods institutions. The possibility of Hungary being brought down economically by this combination is not remote. What, in such an event, will happen to the ever-growing number of Gipsy children whom the state can no longer support? Vona is absolutely right. The government must assess and correct heavy Gipsy dependence on the state for child support."
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We are supposed to ignore the racist remarks of this Elle character however. The reason... we are just members of the "left" and are conspiring with the Hungarian "left". Anyone who sides with the Roma are clearly just "short-sighted".
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But Elle's remarks were just the tip of the Jobbik spear.
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"Agreed, the last thing Hungary needs is to be out numbered by those dam gypsies FFS or at least deport them to Mongolia" -Attila
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Just so those of you know... FFS stands for "For **** Sake". That is how great public speakers demonstrate their grasp of oration.
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Eisenhower (the poster not the President) pointed out the following...
"According to a recent poll by Szonda Ipsos, Fidesz
approval rate among likely voters is 60 percent, a 3
percent drop from the previous month. The socialist
support is 20 percent.
In February, Jobbik approval rate stands at 12
percent, which is a 2 percent increase from the
previous month. LMP approval rate is 6 percent.
So where is the decrease in Jobbik parties
popularity? Again this liberal article is deceptive."
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He failed however to defend his party's racist banter.
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Elle than rejoined the fight with the following:
"Jewish Holocaust is still priority to Hungarian Holocaust.’ The latter’s supporters are clamorous. We could become more so. And there has been a milestone here. Becsület Napja is now established, and the anti-nationals do not dare to deride it too loudly. The Kitörés was commemorated this year by Hungarians and Germans, with only some police harassment. It had to be cancelled last year. There’s progress, here.
I am hoping that now that Jobbik is back on the tarmac, the above will be consolidated"
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This is Jobbik's only defense and way to hide its blatant anti-Semitic remarks. They simply make more remarks of the same manner.
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By the way, Hungarians were not killed in the Holocaust. They did however kill hundreds of thousands of Jews as they sided with the Nazis.
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But then the Jobbik minions always turn their war of words back toward the Roma...
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"laughable. Orban wants to increase the voting rights
of gypsy people in the elections. Orban wants to
give extra voting rights for parents in the basis of
the number of their children. Therefore gypsy people
can decide general parlamental elections."
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They just can't resist the opportunity to attack the Roma. They need the Roma so as to feed the flames of their blind hatred. They need the Roma to justify their xenophobic fears of the outside world. And for them, the Roma justify the so called wrongs and hardships that have befallen them and their beloved Hungary. Amazingly all the Roma have to do to be targeted is to simply breathe.
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You can read more if you want by visiting the link below. I however will refrain from pointing out anymore of their mind numbingly stupid racism.
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Source Document for this Post.
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Politics.Hu
http://www.politics.hu/20110218/no-more-mister-nice-radical-nationalist-jobbik
And On... And On...
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Jobbik... in one word this nationalistic Hungarian political party can be summed up as "Racist". Like their ancestors, the Hungarian Guard, these Nazi minions are on a mission. To seek and destroy their enemies. Enemies they label as "damn Gypsies" and the looming "Left". (Quotes taken from "Attila")
-
Armed with the political muscle their party has garnished in recent elections, the minions are massing. Their ignorant masses are gathering. And the jackboots are being laced up with ever growing vigor.
-
In a recent posted article on Politics.Hu (Hungary) a columnist decided to attack the ever popular nationalistic party. Despite the fact that the article was far from an iron fist in a velvet glove the minions of Jobbik showed up for the battle. And their verbal abuse, if it can be called that, showed just how fervent they are when it comes to the Roma.
-
But before I can get to their little verbal volleys I may need to explain Hungarian xenophobia first.
-
In Hungary the Jobbik party is still rather small and at times disproportionately represented in local government. But their reach from the halls of government out onto the streets is far from "small". It is on the streets that Jobbik first grew its numbers. It was there that they found a link with the common man. And it is there that they fed the general public their racist hook, line, and sinker.
-
Using the Roma as a target of opportunity, the Jobbik leaders have exploited fears that had long resided under the surface of the Hungarian public. They claim that the Roma are parasites upon the Hungarian public by associating the Roma with "welfare".
-
When Jobbik leaders come before Hungarian Parliament in a Nazi era uniform (currently banned in Hungary) nobody seems to care enough to levy fines or jail the politicians. Instead the skinheads appear to be patting their "brave leader" Gábor Vona on the back. They don't even seem to mind his usual rants, rather racist in nature, about the Roma.
-
This is how the racist banter of the Jobbik party resonates with their voters:
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"Vona Gábor is, was and always will (I hope) be a militant nationalist," Elle began. "You know, people who faults Vona for doing this are very short-sighted. And a society that sees the steeply climbing number of births of children for whose provision the parents rely on the state, then does not intervene, is culpably negligent. What do these people want to see happen in Hungary: something like in Brazilian, where the army or police regularly gun down the legions of abandoned street children, or human organ harvesters catch them for lucrative spare parts?
-
Let’s face it: Hungary is under heavy international attack from the so-called ‘left’. The Hungarian ‘left’ appear to have friends throughout the API and the Bretton Woods institutions. The possibility of Hungary being brought down economically by this combination is not remote. What, in such an event, will happen to the ever-growing number of Gipsy children whom the state can no longer support? Vona is absolutely right. The government must assess and correct heavy Gipsy dependence on the state for child support."
-
We are supposed to ignore the racist remarks of this Elle character however. The reason... we are just members of the "left" and are conspiring with the Hungarian "left". Anyone who sides with the Roma are clearly just "short-sighted".
-
But Elle's remarks were just the tip of the Jobbik spear.
-
"Agreed, the last thing Hungary needs is to be out numbered by those dam gypsies FFS or at least deport them to Mongolia" -Attila
-
Just so those of you know... FFS stands for "For **** Sake". That is how great public speakers demonstrate their grasp of oration.
-
Eisenhower (the poster not the President) pointed out the following...
"According to a recent poll by Szonda Ipsos, Fidesz
approval rate among likely voters is 60 percent, a 3
percent drop from the previous month. The socialist
support is 20 percent.
In February, Jobbik approval rate stands at 12
percent, which is a 2 percent increase from the
previous month. LMP approval rate is 6 percent.
So where is the decrease in Jobbik parties
popularity? Again this liberal article is deceptive."
-
He failed however to defend his party's racist banter.
-
Elle than rejoined the fight with the following:
"Jewish Holocaust is still priority to Hungarian Holocaust.’ The latter’s supporters are clamorous. We could become more so. And there has been a milestone here. Becsület Napja is now established, and the anti-nationals do not dare to deride it too loudly. The Kitörés was commemorated this year by Hungarians and Germans, with only some police harassment. It had to be cancelled last year. There’s progress, here.
I am hoping that now that Jobbik is back on the tarmac, the above will be consolidated"
-
This is Jobbik's only defense and way to hide its blatant anti-Semitic remarks. They simply make more remarks of the same manner.
-
By the way, Hungarians were not killed in the Holocaust. They did however kill hundreds of thousands of Jews as they sided with the Nazis.
-
But then the Jobbik minions always turn their war of words back toward the Roma...
-
"laughable. Orban wants to increase the voting rights
of gypsy people in the elections. Orban wants to
give extra voting rights for parents in the basis of
the number of their children. Therefore gypsy people
can decide general parlamental elections."
-
They just can't resist the opportunity to attack the Roma. They need the Roma so as to feed the flames of their blind hatred. They need the Roma to justify their xenophobic fears of the outside world. And for them, the Roma justify the so called wrongs and hardships that have befallen them and their beloved Hungary. Amazingly all the Roma have to do to be targeted is to simply breathe.
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You can read more if you want by visiting the link below. I however will refrain from pointing out anymore of their mind numbingly stupid racism.
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Source Document for this Post.
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Politics.Hu
http://www.politics.hu/20110218/no-more-mister-nice-radical-nationalist-jobbik
January 28, 2011
Islamophobia... Fact or Fiction?
Hatred Knows No Bounds
When many hear the term "Islamophobia" they think of some far left liberal media outlet pushing the latest PC term of the day. However many cases throughout the Christian dominated West have proven the term to be at least loosely based in fact. And for those who believe it to be "fiction", most seem to have a bias against Islam and Muslims to begin with.
In Greece attacks on Muslims have risen like a rocket over the last few years alone. More disturbingly is the fact that many of the attacks go without punishment or rebuke by the public in general. The fact that Greece sets right next door to a massive Muslim state (Turkey) doesn't exactly help either.
In one attack Bangladeshi Muslims were attacked while attending prayers in a Muslim man's basement. The attackers, suspected to be members of a far-right group called Golden Dawn, began with simply screaming obscenities and hateful slurs down into the basement. When the attackers found that they could not deter the worshipers with their words they quickly turned to violence.
Smashing the windows to the basement, the attackers began throwing gasoline filled beer bottles down amongst the worshipers. Flames quickly erupted and scattered the fifty some worshipers. With some luck the fire was put out and the basement was secured by local police. Yet no attackers were ever punished or arrested despite the attempt to lock the worshipers down in the basement while setting fire to it.
It had taken three hours to free the worshipers while the attackers continued with their attempts to set fire to the prayer room once again... with the worshipers locked in.
Greece has promised its growing Muslim population a mosque of their own (all houses of worship are sponsored in one way or another by the state in Greece). Since the early 19Th century the Greeks have made this hollow promise. It wasn't until a mass attack on Muslims last year that Greece has even decided to find a plot of land. And even in this, the Greek government has stalled in building the mosque due to arguing amongst the government officials.
All the while attacks on Greek Muslims continue as bigoted attackers take out their frustrations with a seemingly ever growing minority. Many of the far-right groups in Greece even draw upon the "Spartan" heritage of their ancestors to recruit even the most mild of racist amongst them. Others simply try to paint the "immigrants" as the "hordes" that led to the fall of Rome (note that they try not to remind the Greeks of their own fall to the Ottomans).
In other parts of Europe the attacks on Muslims are still predominately hate speech at best. But as studies show, the attitude in Greece appears to indicate the future attitude in other parts of Europe... i.e. Italy, Spain, and France. Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume that if police and government officials in Greece are not likely to go after anti-Islamic attackers than other states may allow such attacks to occur too. And the rise in acceptance of hate speech in public forums (such as the European radio and newspapers... both online and in print) does show a trend toward the xenophobia that now holds Greece by its throat.
Now I'm not saying that Europe should stifle or censor its "free press" in any way. However, its governments should be more capable of noting the difference between simply discussing Islam and attacking those who follow its tenants. Yet it appears that most in Europe find the lack of distinction between these two to be acceptable.
Here in America we have the far-left constantly accusing the far-right of being "Islamophobic". This is one reason that the lack of sensitivity to a persons religion has become far to common place in American society (i.e. Family Guy). Instead of polite discussion we far too often resort to constant attacks meant to magnify the stigmas surrounding the Islamic faith.
For the far-right in American society the hate speech usually comes from the same fear of immigrants one might find when talking about Latinos. Yet when it comes to Islam they usually attack the ideas of "Shariah Law" or other extreme elements that exploit Islam. None seem to realize that under the current Constitutional law no such law in accordance with Shariah law could ever be passed. But that's not the point... the associating of Muslims in America to Shariah Law is the same as associating all Native Americans with the "peace pipe".
For the far-left, the real forebears of Islamophobia, the attacks on Muslims comes from their need to "coddle" their potential voters. This need to be condescending toward an entire group of people does nothing to help them but more so toward crippling them. It is a well known fact that minorities in this country face some form of discrimination. That seems to be an unavoidable fact of living in a multicultural society. Coddling and belittling a people based upon the attributes that make them a minority in the first place only serves to forever remind them of their place in a supposedly inclusive society.
In the end we should be looking toward Greece to study what we all wish to avoid... the growth of true hate crimes from primitive bigotry. We should look toward the 9/11 hijackers to see where such hatred leads. We should be looking at ourselves to understand just why we seem to be incapable of openly accepting this group of people and those other minorities we also live with.
Once we have done these things we should then be a little more willing to open our minds to the views of Muslims and be far more willing to study their religion with an open heart. I'm not saying we should convert or compromise our own culture, but we cannot truly understand a people if we constantly refuse to understand the faith they follow. It after all does define them in its own way. It greatly contributes to the way they think, interact with others, and the way they love one another.
In the end, I believe we would be a better nation if we were to accept the Muslims as they are and not for what we wish them to be. We are, after all, a country that espouses the virtues of freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ourselves and our countrymen. And it was once proven in the blood of those who fought on battlefields like Gettysburg that we, as a nation, could no longer stand the injustice of having one group placed below all the rest. So why today would we wish to keep separate our Muslim brothers and sisters from the same dreams of freedom and prosperity that our forefathers passed down to us? And why should we accept an ignorant hatred of them while claiming to be a nation based on justice and equality?
Source Documents for this Post
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/rising-tide-of-islamophobia-engulfs-athens/article1856460/
When many hear the term "Islamophobia" they think of some far left liberal media outlet pushing the latest PC term of the day. However many cases throughout the Christian dominated West have proven the term to be at least loosely based in fact. And for those who believe it to be "fiction", most seem to have a bias against Islam and Muslims to begin with.
In Greece attacks on Muslims have risen like a rocket over the last few years alone. More disturbingly is the fact that many of the attacks go without punishment or rebuke by the public in general. The fact that Greece sets right next door to a massive Muslim state (Turkey) doesn't exactly help either.
In one attack Bangladeshi Muslims were attacked while attending prayers in a Muslim man's basement. The attackers, suspected to be members of a far-right group called Golden Dawn, began with simply screaming obscenities and hateful slurs down into the basement. When the attackers found that they could not deter the worshipers with their words they quickly turned to violence.
Smashing the windows to the basement, the attackers began throwing gasoline filled beer bottles down amongst the worshipers. Flames quickly erupted and scattered the fifty some worshipers. With some luck the fire was put out and the basement was secured by local police. Yet no attackers were ever punished or arrested despite the attempt to lock the worshipers down in the basement while setting fire to it.
It had taken three hours to free the worshipers while the attackers continued with their attempts to set fire to the prayer room once again... with the worshipers locked in.
Greece has promised its growing Muslim population a mosque of their own (all houses of worship are sponsored in one way or another by the state in Greece). Since the early 19Th century the Greeks have made this hollow promise. It wasn't until a mass attack on Muslims last year that Greece has even decided to find a plot of land. And even in this, the Greek government has stalled in building the mosque due to arguing amongst the government officials.
All the while attacks on Greek Muslims continue as bigoted attackers take out their frustrations with a seemingly ever growing minority. Many of the far-right groups in Greece even draw upon the "Spartan" heritage of their ancestors to recruit even the most mild of racist amongst them. Others simply try to paint the "immigrants" as the "hordes" that led to the fall of Rome (note that they try not to remind the Greeks of their own fall to the Ottomans).
In other parts of Europe the attacks on Muslims are still predominately hate speech at best. But as studies show, the attitude in Greece appears to indicate the future attitude in other parts of Europe... i.e. Italy, Spain, and France. Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume that if police and government officials in Greece are not likely to go after anti-Islamic attackers than other states may allow such attacks to occur too. And the rise in acceptance of hate speech in public forums (such as the European radio and newspapers... both online and in print) does show a trend toward the xenophobia that now holds Greece by its throat.
Now I'm not saying that Europe should stifle or censor its "free press" in any way. However, its governments should be more capable of noting the difference between simply discussing Islam and attacking those who follow its tenants. Yet it appears that most in Europe find the lack of distinction between these two to be acceptable.
Here in America we have the far-left constantly accusing the far-right of being "Islamophobic". This is one reason that the lack of sensitivity to a persons religion has become far to common place in American society (i.e. Family Guy). Instead of polite discussion we far too often resort to constant attacks meant to magnify the stigmas surrounding the Islamic faith.
For the far-right in American society the hate speech usually comes from the same fear of immigrants one might find when talking about Latinos. Yet when it comes to Islam they usually attack the ideas of "Shariah Law" or other extreme elements that exploit Islam. None seem to realize that under the current Constitutional law no such law in accordance with Shariah law could ever be passed. But that's not the point... the associating of Muslims in America to Shariah Law is the same as associating all Native Americans with the "peace pipe".
For the far-left, the real forebears of Islamophobia, the attacks on Muslims comes from their need to "coddle" their potential voters. This need to be condescending toward an entire group of people does nothing to help them but more so toward crippling them. It is a well known fact that minorities in this country face some form of discrimination. That seems to be an unavoidable fact of living in a multicultural society. Coddling and belittling a people based upon the attributes that make them a minority in the first place only serves to forever remind them of their place in a supposedly inclusive society.
In the end we should be looking toward Greece to study what we all wish to avoid... the growth of true hate crimes from primitive bigotry. We should look toward the 9/11 hijackers to see where such hatred leads. We should be looking at ourselves to understand just why we seem to be incapable of openly accepting this group of people and those other minorities we also live with.
Once we have done these things we should then be a little more willing to open our minds to the views of Muslims and be far more willing to study their religion with an open heart. I'm not saying we should convert or compromise our own culture, but we cannot truly understand a people if we constantly refuse to understand the faith they follow. It after all does define them in its own way. It greatly contributes to the way they think, interact with others, and the way they love one another.
In the end, I believe we would be a better nation if we were to accept the Muslims as they are and not for what we wish them to be. We are, after all, a country that espouses the virtues of freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ourselves and our countrymen. And it was once proven in the blood of those who fought on battlefields like Gettysburg that we, as a nation, could no longer stand the injustice of having one group placed below all the rest. So why today would we wish to keep separate our Muslim brothers and sisters from the same dreams of freedom and prosperity that our forefathers passed down to us? And why should we accept an ignorant hatred of them while claiming to be a nation based on justice and equality?
Source Documents for this Post
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/rising-tide-of-islamophobia-engulfs-athens/article1856460/
January 14, 2011
What Happens When Auschwitz Comes Back On Line?
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Anti-Semitism Making A Comeback
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The French Front National party is now applying a "feminine" touch to its party... the ousted leader is placing his daughter at the head of the Front National. Jean-Marie Le Pen is now a thing of the past. His daughter Marine however will not fully change the party rhetoric... references to the "gas chambers" will still be present if the Front National wants to win the French Presidency in 2012. However the racist propaganda will simply be made more "family friendly".
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When the Democrats wanted to change their image during President George W. Bush's second term they elected a "grandma" figure as Speaker of the House. Marine will simply fill this same need on behalf of the Front National.
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In a recent release by the United State's State Department France's anti-Semitic incidents have risen by 300 percent since 2009. These said incidents involve public figures slandering Jews in general, defacing of synagogues, news papers publishing blatantly anti-Semitic remarks and images, government officials and party leaders committing acts of "blood libel" and slander against Jews in general, and political parties running on openly anti-Semitic platforms. Front National being the lead party to have committed acts of and encouraging acts of anti-Semitism.
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States Department Special Envoy Representative, Hannah S. Rosenthal told NewsMax.com that “When you find some rhetoric, whether it’s from a government official, from a religious leader, from a community leader, or in graffiti that calls for killing or harming Jews, that clearly is an incident of anti-Semitism." She went on to clarify; “When Jews are accused of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing and [people] blame all Jews around the world, that’s an act of anti-Semitism. When Jews are accused of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust, that’s an act of anti-Semitism.”
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The accurate reporting of new in regards to Israel is not an act of anti-Semitism (according to the States Department and Hannah S. Rosenthal). And yet it has become increasingly rare in Europe to be capable of finding news articles accurately reporting on Israel. It is however easy to find news articles that slander the state of Israel and openly question its legitimacy.
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While France descends into the grips of the far right the rest of Europe seems to already be already there. Germany now has entire states that are controlled and governed by political parties and politicians that openly admit to being neo-Nazis. The radicals in Germany find time to have shooting practice in the woods near their villages. Others are encouraged to openly attack and drive out their Jewish neighbors.
-
Hungary on the other hand doesn't need to isolate its right wingers... they already control the federal government there. The Jobbik Party in Hungary (the second largest in Hungary) marches through Jewish neighborhoods with Nazi era flags (flags the Nazi conspirators in Hungary used). All the while they wear Nazi armbands and sign songs that glorify Hitler and the concentration camps. Yet their main target has recently taken the back seat while the Jobbik party attempts to ethnically cleanse its country of its Roma minority.
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The Czech Republic and its surrounding neighboring countries all have recently taken their "double genocide" law before the EU so as to openly deny the Holocaust's importance in their nations' histories. Some might argue that in a country where the population openly did the Nazi's dirty work one might want to "forgive and forget". But if we have learned nothing from our combined history as human beings it is that "if we do not learn from our past we are damned to repeat it".
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So as the question above stated... What happens when Auschwitz comes back on line?
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In a Europe so deeply embedded in economic woes and ethnic tensions Hitler issued the first "Final Solution". Today we look at a Europe that is once again deeply embedded in economic woes and steeped in ethnic and religious tensions (as the Dutch "warning to the visible Jews" points out). Can we be looking at a Europe that could possibly issue a truly final solution of its own?
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In my eyes it is a haunting issue that camps like Auschwitz remain in near working condition. Some may argue that the camps could not be used in their present state of existence... but how much work really needs to be done to kill people there? Others may point out the fact that they are reminders of our past and that I agree. But the issue remains, besides rebuilding the gas chambers and furnaces, the camps could now house nearly the same amount of people as they did in World War Two.
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Look at the camps we housed the Japanese in during World War Two. How long would it take to rebuild those?
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In Europe we witnessed the rebuilding and reconstructing of death camps during the "civil wars" in the Balkans. These death camps, constructed by Serbs, were used to destroy or diminish the targeted population. They were built without concern for the safety or comfort of the imprisoned... for obvious reasons. Thus, these camps took rather little time to bring on line.
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With the intent of causing death by design, concentration camps can be constructed quickly and cheaply. They need not be comfortable to live in nor do they need to support human life in even the most primitive form. Thus Auschwitz is possibly already in working order.
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So I should go on to ask who would be sent to a newly operational Auschwitz?
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Sadly the same groups of people targeted by Hitler would be sent to newly built or refurbished death camp. Roma, mentally ill, any political decenter, anti-socials, and yes... the Jews would be targets once again. The only groups missing in this proposed new Holocaust would be the homosexuals, communist, and Polish (unless they happen to be of any group listed in the targeted list).
-
A new addition might be added in my opinion. Muslims, who the Europeans invited into their countries yet now resent, could be targeted due to religious differences. Most people who are watching the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe disagree with me due to the stereotype that claims Muslims are "natural enemies" of Jews. However the laws being passed across most of Europe show clearly the "Islamaphobia" taking hold of Europe.
-
Who would support such a disgustingly historical proposal such as another Holocaust?
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Far Right (neo-Nazi style) Parties in Europe as of now...
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National Revival of Poland Party- Poland
Jobbik Party- Hungary
National Front- France
Social Democrats- Germany
Republican Party of Germany- Germany
German People's Union- Germany
National Democratic Party- Germany
Social Democratic Party- Austria
Socialist Party- Austria
Austrian People's Party (OVP)- Austria
Freedom Party- Austria (linking itself to the late National Socialist Workers Party)
Party for Freedom- Holland
Pim Fortuyn's List- Holland
Livable Netherlands- Holland
Dansk Folkeparti (Danish Peoples Party)- Denmark
British National Party- England
Fatherland Party- Norway
Progress Party- Norway
Norwegian Patriots- Norway
Norwegian Peoples' Party- Norway
National Democrats- Norway
National Alliance- Norway
Vigrid- Norway
Flemish Block- Belgium
Hellenic Front- Greece
Northern League- Italy
National Alliance- Italy
Popular Party- Portugal
Swiss Peoples' Party- Switzerland
The True Finns- Finland
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All the groups listed above have either supported or tried to pass themselves laws that would and could lead to government sanctioned discrimination against Jews and other minorities in Europe. Only a select few of those listed above have not openly admitted that their parties are anti-Semitic in nature. All the rest have leaders who either glorify the "attempts at creating a pure European" Europe. So it is not a far stretch of the imagination to assume that these followers would openly or overtly support the killing or deportation of all minorities in Europe.
-
So how would the next Holocaust play out?
-
During Hitler's Holocaust there were clear distinctions between countries in Europe. Borders were closed and people could not be taken across a border without "papers". Today, as long as you are an "acceptable" citizen, people can cross the borders in Europe with much greater ease. The individual countries in Europe no longer retain true sovereignty seeing as how they are now subjected to the laws of the European Union.
-
If the parties from the said countries were to unite European law just a little more than it already is they could easily ignore the few regulations that still exist. Gaining power across adjoining borders is no longer a concern as it was back when Hitler's Nazi party began fostering sister parties in neighboring countries. The need for sympathies in neighboring countrymen is not needed. Therefore the far right in Europe can easily move targeted communities into the few regions of Europe where the population is considered "rural".
-
With the targeted communities "out of sight and out of mind" the new death camps can be brought into the modern age. Automated and nearly autonomous in nature, these camps can exterminate the "immigrants and minority populations" without the need to gain the local population's support. Party members could operate without concern of the local populations' moral objections... assuming they would have any.
-
In this scenario there would be no need for an army or Waffen SS to carry out the orders of racist politicians. The simple following of eugenics (a primitive form of the Evolutionary Theory) could be used to encourage party members into acting in much the same manner as the SS did during World War Two. This use of "reason and rational argument" is often much easier than one might think in getting people to act upon even the most barbaric of desires.
-
In a study of social behaviors a collage class was able to get students to "administer increasing levels of electric shock" to a perceived "patient". The "authoritative figure" provided to them needed only to offer a little "encouragement" when the "patient" screamed out in agony. Some students even continued to "administer increasing levels of electric shock" once the perceived "patient" ceased to cry out in pain... in effect they were punishing a perceivably dead victim.
-
The application of this system in real life often occurred during Hitler's reign in Europe. Pol Pott in Cambodia used it to achieve a sadistic rule over his Kempher Rouge. In a proposed "new age" Europe this style of rule would fit the bill to induce a second Holocaust. It could easily be applied to ramp up support for the next "Final Solution".
-
In the event that this nightmare would come to past, we could only hope that the Europeans would act out militarily against another ally of the United States. However this, the only way to stop this scenario, seems highly unlikely since Europe has shown that is unable or incapable of using its military force upon external threats.
-
For this reason it is highly important that we get more and more people to become aware of the growing threat of anti-Semitism in Europe. We must keep our eyes upon our neighbors across the pond at all times. It is increasingly clear with each passing election (their elections) that they are quickly backsliding into the sins of their past.
-
It is very likely that this proposed scenario will never again be repeated upon European soil. But it is also very likely that it will. And for this reason we can not falter in our defense of freedom and the common human liberties and rights and freedoms our God granted every man and woman from birth.
-
Wake up America... Wake up oh bastion of freedom... Wake up oh sleeping giant.
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Source Documents for this Post.
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PressEurop - English
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/462841-far-right-human-touch
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News Max
http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/Hannah-SRosenthal-stae/2011/01/13/id/382730
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jpost.com
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=200967
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thenews.pl
http://www.thenews.pl/national/artykul147358_far-right-party-organizes-pro-polish-march-in-silesia.html
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Anti-Semitism Making A Comeback
-
-
The French Front National party is now applying a "feminine" touch to its party... the ousted leader is placing his daughter at the head of the Front National. Jean-Marie Le Pen is now a thing of the past. His daughter Marine however will not fully change the party rhetoric... references to the "gas chambers" will still be present if the Front National wants to win the French Presidency in 2012. However the racist propaganda will simply be made more "family friendly".
-
When the Democrats wanted to change their image during President George W. Bush's second term they elected a "grandma" figure as Speaker of the House. Marine will simply fill this same need on behalf of the Front National.
-
In a recent release by the United State's State Department France's anti-Semitic incidents have risen by 300 percent since 2009. These said incidents involve public figures slandering Jews in general, defacing of synagogues, news papers publishing blatantly anti-Semitic remarks and images, government officials and party leaders committing acts of "blood libel" and slander against Jews in general, and political parties running on openly anti-Semitic platforms. Front National being the lead party to have committed acts of and encouraging acts of anti-Semitism.
-
States Department Special Envoy Representative, Hannah S. Rosenthal told NewsMax.com that “When you find some rhetoric, whether it’s from a government official, from a religious leader, from a community leader, or in graffiti that calls for killing or harming Jews, that clearly is an incident of anti-Semitism." She went on to clarify; “When Jews are accused of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing and [people] blame all Jews around the world, that’s an act of anti-Semitism. When Jews are accused of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust, that’s an act of anti-Semitism.”
-
The accurate reporting of new in regards to Israel is not an act of anti-Semitism (according to the States Department and Hannah S. Rosenthal). And yet it has become increasingly rare in Europe to be capable of finding news articles accurately reporting on Israel. It is however easy to find news articles that slander the state of Israel and openly question its legitimacy.
-
While France descends into the grips of the far right the rest of Europe seems to already be already there. Germany now has entire states that are controlled and governed by political parties and politicians that openly admit to being neo-Nazis. The radicals in Germany find time to have shooting practice in the woods near their villages. Others are encouraged to openly attack and drive out their Jewish neighbors.
-
Hungary on the other hand doesn't need to isolate its right wingers... they already control the federal government there. The Jobbik Party in Hungary (the second largest in Hungary) marches through Jewish neighborhoods with Nazi era flags (flags the Nazi conspirators in Hungary used). All the while they wear Nazi armbands and sign songs that glorify Hitler and the concentration camps. Yet their main target has recently taken the back seat while the Jobbik party attempts to ethnically cleanse its country of its Roma minority.
-
The Czech Republic and its surrounding neighboring countries all have recently taken their "double genocide" law before the EU so as to openly deny the Holocaust's importance in their nations' histories. Some might argue that in a country where the population openly did the Nazi's dirty work one might want to "forgive and forget". But if we have learned nothing from our combined history as human beings it is that "if we do not learn from our past we are damned to repeat it".
-
So as the question above stated... What happens when Auschwitz comes back on line?
-
In a Europe so deeply embedded in economic woes and ethnic tensions Hitler issued the first "Final Solution". Today we look at a Europe that is once again deeply embedded in economic woes and steeped in ethnic and religious tensions (as the Dutch "warning to the visible Jews" points out). Can we be looking at a Europe that could possibly issue a truly final solution of its own?
-
In my eyes it is a haunting issue that camps like Auschwitz remain in near working condition. Some may argue that the camps could not be used in their present state of existence... but how much work really needs to be done to kill people there? Others may point out the fact that they are reminders of our past and that I agree. But the issue remains, besides rebuilding the gas chambers and furnaces, the camps could now house nearly the same amount of people as they did in World War Two.
-
Look at the camps we housed the Japanese in during World War Two. How long would it take to rebuild those?
-
In Europe we witnessed the rebuilding and reconstructing of death camps during the "civil wars" in the Balkans. These death camps, constructed by Serbs, were used to destroy or diminish the targeted population. They were built without concern for the safety or comfort of the imprisoned... for obvious reasons. Thus, these camps took rather little time to bring on line.
-
With the intent of causing death by design, concentration camps can be constructed quickly and cheaply. They need not be comfortable to live in nor do they need to support human life in even the most primitive form. Thus Auschwitz is possibly already in working order.
-
So I should go on to ask who would be sent to a newly operational Auschwitz?
-
Sadly the same groups of people targeted by Hitler would be sent to newly built or refurbished death camp. Roma, mentally ill, any political decenter, anti-socials, and yes... the Jews would be targets once again. The only groups missing in this proposed new Holocaust would be the homosexuals, communist, and Polish (unless they happen to be of any group listed in the targeted list).
-
A new addition might be added in my opinion. Muslims, who the Europeans invited into their countries yet now resent, could be targeted due to religious differences. Most people who are watching the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe disagree with me due to the stereotype that claims Muslims are "natural enemies" of Jews. However the laws being passed across most of Europe show clearly the "Islamaphobia" taking hold of Europe.
-
Who would support such a disgustingly historical proposal such as another Holocaust?
-
Far Right (neo-Nazi style) Parties in Europe as of now...
-
National Revival of Poland Party- Poland
Jobbik Party- Hungary
National Front- France
Social Democrats- Germany
Republican Party of Germany- Germany
German People's Union- Germany
National Democratic Party- Germany
Social Democratic Party- Austria
Socialist Party- Austria
Austrian People's Party (OVP)- Austria
Freedom Party- Austria (linking itself to the late National Socialist Workers Party)
Party for Freedom- Holland
Pim Fortuyn's List- Holland
Livable Netherlands- Holland
Dansk Folkeparti (Danish Peoples Party)- Denmark
British National Party- England
Fatherland Party- Norway
Progress Party- Norway
Norwegian Patriots- Norway
Norwegian Peoples' Party- Norway
National Democrats- Norway
National Alliance- Norway
Vigrid- Norway
Flemish Block- Belgium
Hellenic Front- Greece
Northern League- Italy
National Alliance- Italy
Popular Party- Portugal
Swiss Peoples' Party- Switzerland
The True Finns- Finland
-
All the groups listed above have either supported or tried to pass themselves laws that would and could lead to government sanctioned discrimination against Jews and other minorities in Europe. Only a select few of those listed above have not openly admitted that their parties are anti-Semitic in nature. All the rest have leaders who either glorify the "attempts at creating a pure European" Europe. So it is not a far stretch of the imagination to assume that these followers would openly or overtly support the killing or deportation of all minorities in Europe.
-
So how would the next Holocaust play out?
-
During Hitler's Holocaust there were clear distinctions between countries in Europe. Borders were closed and people could not be taken across a border without "papers". Today, as long as you are an "acceptable" citizen, people can cross the borders in Europe with much greater ease. The individual countries in Europe no longer retain true sovereignty seeing as how they are now subjected to the laws of the European Union.
-
If the parties from the said countries were to unite European law just a little more than it already is they could easily ignore the few regulations that still exist. Gaining power across adjoining borders is no longer a concern as it was back when Hitler's Nazi party began fostering sister parties in neighboring countries. The need for sympathies in neighboring countrymen is not needed. Therefore the far right in Europe can easily move targeted communities into the few regions of Europe where the population is considered "rural".
-
With the targeted communities "out of sight and out of mind" the new death camps can be brought into the modern age. Automated and nearly autonomous in nature, these camps can exterminate the "immigrants and minority populations" without the need to gain the local population's support. Party members could operate without concern of the local populations' moral objections... assuming they would have any.
-
In this scenario there would be no need for an army or Waffen SS to carry out the orders of racist politicians. The simple following of eugenics (a primitive form of the Evolutionary Theory) could be used to encourage party members into acting in much the same manner as the SS did during World War Two. This use of "reason and rational argument" is often much easier than one might think in getting people to act upon even the most barbaric of desires.
-
In a study of social behaviors a collage class was able to get students to "administer increasing levels of electric shock" to a perceived "patient". The "authoritative figure" provided to them needed only to offer a little "encouragement" when the "patient" screamed out in agony. Some students even continued to "administer increasing levels of electric shock" once the perceived "patient" ceased to cry out in pain... in effect they were punishing a perceivably dead victim.
-
The application of this system in real life often occurred during Hitler's reign in Europe. Pol Pott in Cambodia used it to achieve a sadistic rule over his Kempher Rouge. In a proposed "new age" Europe this style of rule would fit the bill to induce a second Holocaust. It could easily be applied to ramp up support for the next "Final Solution".
-
In the event that this nightmare would come to past, we could only hope that the Europeans would act out militarily against another ally of the United States. However this, the only way to stop this scenario, seems highly unlikely since Europe has shown that is unable or incapable of using its military force upon external threats.
-
For this reason it is highly important that we get more and more people to become aware of the growing threat of anti-Semitism in Europe. We must keep our eyes upon our neighbors across the pond at all times. It is increasingly clear with each passing election (their elections) that they are quickly backsliding into the sins of their past.
-
It is very likely that this proposed scenario will never again be repeated upon European soil. But it is also very likely that it will. And for this reason we can not falter in our defense of freedom and the common human liberties and rights and freedoms our God granted every man and woman from birth.
-
Wake up America... Wake up oh bastion of freedom... Wake up oh sleeping giant.
-
-
You can follow post like this one by following us on Facebook. Our Facebook group can be found by searching; Alder's Ledge.
-
-
Source Documents for this Post.
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PressEurop - English
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/462841-far-right-human-touch
-
News Max
http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/Hannah-SRosenthal-stae/2011/01/13/id/382730
-
jpost.com
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=200967
-
thenews.pl
http://www.thenews.pl/national/artykul147358_far-right-party-organizes-pro-polish-march-in-silesia.html
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