Friday, January 9, 2015

AP / Yahoo: Paris attack raises fears of support surge for extreme right [Because, you see, the danger is not the massacres, beheadings, child prostitution rings, car torching, overall crime rates, staggering taxpayer costs, demographic replacement--but that a democratic election will put in office a sane lower-immigration party. Obviously the West's Open-Borders Overlords and their media lackeys are going to grip the throats of ethnic Europeans until the bitter end.]


Paris attack raises fears of support surge for extreme right

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015 file photo a participant of a rally called 'Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West' (PEGIDA...

BERLIN (AP) — A day after terror struck Paris, Europe's far-right and anti-immigrant parties pressed home the message that has fueled their resurgence: The continent's rising numbers of Muslims are dangerous.
Populist movements warning of the "Islamization" of Europe have been gaining ground in small countries like Denmark and large ones like Britain, Germany and France. The attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo could win more supporters to their cause.
Fears of precisely the kind of commando-style attack that struck the newspaper on Wednesday, killing 12 people, have risen sharply in recent months as home-grown fighters return from Syria and Iraq. Such warnings have been aired across the political spectrum, but the anti-immigrant parties have been at the forefront.
Now the surreal scenes of carnage on a quiet Parisian street — with cartoonists as victims — are likely to feed into the arguments of right-wing forces that have been the loudest in declaring Islam to be incompatible with Western values. There are concerns that more mainstream Europeans will be pulled into their orbit, and that mainstream parties will be tempted to parrot the hard-line rhetoric.
Even as Europe's Islamic community leaders lined up to condemn the terrorism, and a Muslim policeman emerged as a hero in Wednesday's drama, populist forces lost no opportunity to lash out against Europe's Muslim population.
In Britain, Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-Europe, anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, said the attacks were the result of "a fifth column" of people living within Western societies "who hate us."
His language was condemned by other politicians. ...