LE PEN RAPS CHIRAC FOR CALLING OUT VICHY
Le Pen raps Chirac for calling out Vichy (JTA)
Jean-Marie Le Pen "regrets" that President Jacques Chirac acknowledged the French government's responsibility for deporting French Jews during the Holocaust. In an interview published Sunday in Le Parisian, the extreme right-wing candidate in France’s presidential elections said, "Chirac was the only president to do it. Not even [Francois] Mitterrand did it."
Early in his presidency, Chirac won the Jewish community’s admiration for recognizing the Vichy government's responsibility for deporting Jews during the Holocaust.
Asked about how the Holocaust is being taught to French high school students, Le Pen answered: “I’d rather not talk about this. Last time I did, expressing myself moderately, it cost me" some $250,000. "These debates are not part of the democratic freedom of expression principle."
In 1987, Le Pen was sentenced to a $250,000 fine for claiming that the gas chambers “were only a small detail in history."
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FROM adamholland.blogspot.com
Birds of a fascist feather flock together.
FROM faute de pire: Muslims for Le Pen?
"Muslims for Le Pen?
In a recent editorial for the Washington Times, Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal warns that demographic trends spell electoral disaster for the European right, where the growing Muslim populations of major cities have recently out-voted the right's homegrown base in a string of electoral defeats in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Turning to consider the French case -- of special interest with presidential voting just days away and the largest Muslim population in all of Europe -- Belien notes the curious but unmistakable overtures recently made towards France's Muslim voters by Front National leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. What does it all mean?" (I recommend that you read the rest here...)
There have always been affinities between the Eurpoean neo-fascist far right and the Islamists. For one thing, they share ideological roots in fascism and Leninism.
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