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Disgusting. National "values and interests". Codespeak for fascist bigots everywhere. It would seem there is a resurgence of jackboots across Europe, to add to our own. It frightens me to see the rising level to which they feel so emboldened. Will the world never learn?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26201010
BBC News
14 February 2014 Last updated at 17:45 ET
Hungary's Jobbik party holds rally in ex-synagogue
Hungary's far-right Jobbik party has sparked criticism after holding a political rally inside a former synagogue in the town of Esztergom.
Jewish groups called Friday's event "disgusting", saying it was "insulting to the memories" of Holocaust victims.
Jobbik leader Gabor Vona insisted his party did not want to "provoke anyone, including the Jewish community".
The party, which purports to protect Hungarian values and interests, is the third largest in parliament.... MORE
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Marton Gyongyosi, caused outrage two years ago when he said officials of Jewish origin should be listed because they might be a "national security risk."
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)This was also a charge leveled at gays, and not just by the Nazis.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)a game changing event and turning point in the war, it could be said that gays did pose a national security risk. In fact, one member of the gay community made you his bitch Adolph. How's that for your so-called superior race, you bigoted nazi p.o.s.? Bwaaahhh.....
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)It will spread like a virus, and people will laugh, cluck their tongues, wring their hands, but watch it nonetheless.
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)nodded his or her head and thought, "Well, the day isn't all that bad."
Yeah.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)It is reminding us, we aren't safe. But, should we make such observations we are buying into a "culture of victimization".
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Hungary, Russia, France, et al... people had better start paying attention.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)The mistakes of the past are easily re-created. There is a really good song by Paula Cole about this where she sings about haters being in plain clothes.
Litte boy, tries to hide,
From the fire in his backyard.
Burning cross, white cloth,
It's the second time this year.
Hitler's brothers are still alive,
They're wearing everyday disguises.
A woman runs, for asylum,
She's the only one of her kind in this neighborhood.
She knows who they were,
They don't believe a word,
The cops just turn their heads to protect their friends.
Hitler's brothers are still alive,
Their army seems to grow in size,
Hitler's brothers are on the rise,
They're wearing everyday disguises.
...In camouflage or business suits.
Another man, bound and gagged,
Tied upon the railroad tracks.
At nine p.m. the B&M (Boston & Maine)
Rolled across his yellow skin
Hitler's brothers are still alive,
Their army seems to grow in size,
Hitler's brothers are on the rise,
They're wearing everyday disguises.
In camouflage or business suits,
Checkered aprons, combat boots,
Time to let those feelings go,
Hatred only kills your souls
pampango
(24,692 posts)Kind of sounds like an off-shoot of our tea party.
Jobbik's ideology has been described by political scholars as right-wing populism, whose strategy "relies on a combination of ethno-nationalism with anti-elitist populist rhetoric and a radical critique of existing political institutions".
For its part, Jobbik rejects the common classification of the political spectrum in left and right. It prefers a distinction of political parties based on their stance towards globalisation. On this scheme, the party sees itself as patriotic. The party also rejects the term 'far-right', and instead labels itself as 'radical right-wing'. It has also criticised media companies for labelling them as 'far-right' and has threatened to take action towards those who do.
Economy
Jobbik rejects globalised capitalism, and the influence of foreign investors in Hungary. Jobbik specifically opposes Israeli and Jewish investment in Hungary. On 4 May 2013, protesting the World Jewish Congress's choice to locate their 2013 congress in Budapest, party chairman Gabor Vona said, "The Israeli conquerors, these investors, should look for another country in the world for themselves because Hungary is not for sale."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobbik
Thanks for posting this article, theHandpuppet.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)The tea party may be more organized, but extremists are just that, extremists.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)No matter where the snake rears its head.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)In the past two days, Uganda and Nigeria have gone on the attack against GLBT people, mostly based on the imported hate of American right-wing Christians.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)And Hungary seems to be getting worse, not better, as regards social attitudes in general, and anti-Semitism in particular.
Interesting comments from a couple of months ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25450716