French Far-Right Party Leader: Trump’s Muslim Ban Goes Too Far
Source: TPM
Marine Le Pen, the leader of Frances far-right National Front party, said Thursday that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trumps proposal to prevent Muslims from visiting or immigrating to the U.S. was too extreme.
Have you ever heard me say something like that? Le Pen asked during an interview on a French TV program, according to The New York Times. I defend all the French people in France, regardless of their origin, regardless of their religion.
Le Pen is known for her own provocative statements about illegals and Islam. In October, she went on trial on charges of inciting racial hatred for comparing Muslims praying on public streets to the Nazi occupation.
Le Pens National Front has ridden a recent wave of anti-immigrant hysteria, heightened after Islamic State-affiliated terrorists killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, to the top of the polls. The party took 30 percent of the vote in the first round of Frances regional elections this week.
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What does it say when Marie Le Pen thinks you have gone to far?
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)Trump and his followers are setting a new low bar standard.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Shock was the one-word headline on the front of Mondays Le Figaro. France was bracing itself for a swing to the right in Sundays regional elections, but few imagined it would be quite as dramatic. Marine Le Pens Front National (FN) polled nearly 30 per cent of the vote in the first round of voting, ahead of Nicolas Sarkozys centre-right Les Républicains and the ruling Socialist Party, who trailed in third with 23 per cent. As it stands, the FN are on course to take control of six regions after Sundays second round, although the predictions are they will triumph in no more than three due to tactical voting.
Among those who voted for the FN are a small but increasing number of Muslims who see no conflict between their religion and the partys fierce opposition to Islamism. Marine Le Pen a far smarter operator than her anti-Semitic father, Jean-Marie, whom she had expelled from the FN earlier this year has been courting the Muslim vote since she became party leader in January 2011. In her victory speech on Sunday night she called for the French people of all origins to vote for the FN in the second round and turn their back on the political class that deceives them. The message that Marine Le Pen has sought to convey is that her party isnt opposed to Muslims but to what she has described as the progressive Islamisation of our country. Its a message that is winning her votes in the most unlikely of places.
In September Mohamed Boudia posted on social media a selfie of himself and Le Pen, an act for which he was threatened with death, and which served to reinforce his own belief that the Islamic extremists must be rooted out. While the majority of Frances estimated 4.5 million Muslims want to lead peaceful, integrated lives (only 2.1m are said to have declared their faith), there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of extremists.
Opposing them are Muslims like Boudia, some of whom have started a Facebook page called We are Muslims and Proud to vote for Marine Le Pen. Another person is Karim Ouchikh, an administrator for Rassemblement bleu Marine, a political organisation affiliated to the FN. His parents were Berbers from northern Algeria who arrived in France in the early 1960s and abandoned their language and their customs to immerse themselves in the new culture. The problem now, he says, is that since then a huge number of foreigners have arrived and formed enclaves. In an interview with Le Point magazine in October, Ouchikh explained that he turned to the Front National because he was dismayed at the rising number of young Muslim men adopting the dress and beards of the ultra-conservative Salafists, people he describes as provocateurs.
More: How Marine Le Pen is winning over the Muslim vote
iandhr
(6,852 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)It seems more like these are Muslims that hate extremists amongst themselves, and see Marie Le Pen as willing to go after them.
Maybe I'm just reading that wrong.
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)While Trump is an extremist far right loony?
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Having said that, when Marine Le Pen, who is farther to the right than anyone in France with the possible exception of her father, says you've gone out of your fucking mind there's a very good chance you have.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)That speaks volumes.
You know your policies are fucked up if both Marine Le Pen and Dick Cheney come out against them.