What in the world is going on in Europe? An anti-immigration Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, was shot dead walking out of a radio station, sparking widespread protests around the Netherlands. (Fortuyn’s political views were a bit more interesting than Jean-Marie La Pen’s, although taken in total, nearly as loathesome.) What’s scary is that this guy was expected to get about 15% of the vote in the upcoming general elections. One wonders what this trend indicates when it comes to European angst about Muslim immigrants, and European nationalism in general.
What in the world is going on in Europe? An anti-immigration Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, was shot dead walking out of a radio station, sparking widespread protests around the Netherlands. (Fortuyn’s political views were a bit more interesting than Jean-Marie La Pen’s, although taken in total, nearly as loathesome.) What’s scary is that this guy was expected to get about 15% of the vote in the upcoming general elections. One wonders what this trend indicates when it comes to European angst about Muslim immigrants, and European nationalism in general.
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