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Re: rightwing Dutch politician assassinated
May 07, 2002, 16:15
Pim Fortuyn did *not* jump an anti-Islamic bandwagon - although trumpeted as 'anti-Islam', every time I actually saw him quoted as opposed to merely reported in a sensationalist way, he was very clear about this. He was clear that he was not against Islam per se, but he was against certain aspects of Islamic culture, specifically the sexism and homophobia.

[slight paraphrase from interview on Channel 4 news]: 'To muslims I, as a gay man, am less than a pig. Women are less than men. If I had these views you would say I was backward. If Dutch society had these views you would say it was not progressive. Islamic culture has these views, and so I say this about it. Do you not agree?' [The interviewer didn't answer the question.]

Also, Mr B, Fortuyn was not a Nazi. Xenophobic, even racist? arguably yes. A national socialist? no way.

People really have to distinguish between racism, fascism and Nazism. The three get used interchangably, particularly by such eye-off-the-ball people like the Anti Nazi League. It is easy to show that Pim Fortuyn was not a Nazi, and if his supporters do so then they have discredited his accusers, who probably had valid points to make.

But anyway, if we really like the idea of murdering people because they are racist, then let's start with people who are actually responsible for racist killings. Who's committed more racist murders, the BNP or the police?

Let's shoot Michael Howard and Jack Straw for their racist immigration and asylum laws that see thousands of people returned to their home countries to be tortured and killed.

Let's add all the civil servants who implement our immigration system. Let's kill all the MPs who approved such laws. Anyone who approves of Pim Fortuyn's murder should be trying to kill their local MP, or else they're all mouth and no trousers.

And Mr B, 'He took the risk by promoting his repellent views' is frankly nonsense. That's like saying the asylum seeker murdered in Glasgow knew there was racism in Britain, they took the risk when they came here.

Or does the right to life only apply to people you like?

As Noam Chomsky said, 'Goebbels would let you say what you want, so long as he agreed with it. It is a poor service to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust to adopt one of the central tenets of their murderers'.
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