If one wants to read about

If one wants to read about the muslim influence in The Neatherlands, just read the book Infidel. I forget the authors name but she was born in Somalia in 1969 and ended up in Holland in her early 20's to get away from an arranged marriage. She briefly was a MP in the Dutch parliament but was under the protection of the Dutch secret service because of threats to her by radical muslims in Holland. It's a good read and it will certainly open ones eyes about the radical muslims in Europe. My daughter lives in France and the threat is there too with radicals who recruit young men who have fallen away from their faith, teach them a bunch of baloney, (if you die as a martyr you'll have 79 virgins). Most of these people survive on petty crime like credit card fraud, but think they're doing nothing wrong cuz the Europeans are infidels. Most of the information that I've read about this subject does not come from radical right wing European wingnuts. Most of the information that I've read has been from muslims themselves who have directly witnessed it and have come forward.

Facsism

"Fascism has been defined thus:

"Fascism is a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence.""
Good grief, sounds like a typical university textbook definition that is virtually impossible to grasp.
How about Mussolini's definition; "fascism is a merging of corporations and the state".

An Annoyance, But No Hitler or Mussolini in the future.

It will be hard for the far-right to pin the economic collapse on immigrants. The US far-right has tried to blame the credit crunch on Black and Latino mortgage holders, but has convinced no one outside of their cult. The reality - that the problem is capitalism, not scapegoats will become the predominate view.

When the left gets mobilized - and this is already happening in Greece, France and Italy - the far right will get their asses booted around the block and back, in spite of the police efforts to protect them.

politics

The worst possible solution to the perceived "problem" of multiculturalism is to answer violence with more violence, hate with more hate, and discrimination with more discrimination. Those are knee-jerk reactions, understandable by stimulus but eventually uncontrollable.

Canadians could easily lead the world in showing tolerance and acceptance of "other" cultures with their inherent differences as equal partners in advancing the cause of political freedom.

if support for freedom of

if support for freedom of speech to be free from forced religious conversion is a far-right issue, you have lost your mind and your moral compass is inverted.

An excuse to stir up fear

MichealT, no one here ever said Islamist extremists were nice people or that immigration does not bring problems. It is how these problems are dealt with. The far right uses issues like the one you mention to spread its message of fear and hate and thereby gain supporters.

Pile It on Higher

Your right Des it dosen't help does it as the pile just keeps getting higher and higher. And then we stop and start to build another leaving us without anything real to build on.

A coupl'a things

Fascism - named after fasces, the bundle of sticks from Roman times, symbolizing strength through unity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces

Now, it is interesting that the word is being used against those who see the invasion of their turf by adherents of a radically absolutist religion, rather than about the adherents of that religion.

A religion is a set of practices and beliefs, which serves to reaffirm connection between the individual human 'unit' and the totality of the cosmos. It means 'that which binds together again', re-ligio. compare:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ligature

It must be obvious that religious practice is a very inwards-directed affair. But not so with the absolutist or 'universalist' religions, according to which we are either in or out, and out is not an acceptable choice, so we become 'infidels' and therefore trashable. Is this not all well-known hallmarks of fascism? strength through unity very easily comes to mean criminalization of dissent or even of choosing differently, because this is seen as divisive and thereby weakening, not to mention the 'affront' of questioning, by presenting other choices, of rigidly held paradigm. The questing soul becomes an enemy of the righteous flock, if not of the God himself.

So, who are we calling fascists here? Those who have earned the label, or maybe not?

Eastern Europe Faces Big Problems...

A good report on issues that have potential
at this point to get worse or see cooler
heads prevail. New democracies with free
markets only 20 years old in eastern Europe
have hit the wall. Burdened with debt and
crashing export demand many people will
suffer. Capitalism will be blamed.

The writer doesn't discuss Russia among
the nations with nationalist movements.
Putin has systematically broadened his
power and has already shown the west a
desire to assert Russian strength.
Further declines among east Europe economies and an isolated Russia could
be a danger we don't expect.

brg61

Your comment is echoed in Misha Glenny's McMafia:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9781400044115.html

What exactly is Far-Right, or Far Left or Far Middle

The labels are meaningless and a particular policy plank, like immigration, within a plethora of other policies, does not a Far Right or Far Left make.

The term fascist has been tossed about and misused so much that it has become useless as a descriptor.

As usual, a person, or party, or nation has to be examined in toto in order to provide an encapsulating "term". Even then, a particular identifying term is still a label and people and governments and nations are not labels.

Labels are useful for people too lazy or too afraid to think.

For example, take a close look at how BC is being governed by Gordon Campbell's Liberals and consider all the corporatist, socialist, democratic and anti-democratic actions that they have engaged in. What label can you put on them?

The far right

is what Mario Canseco's report is about. I admire the depth of knowledge of other things being discussed here, but...

Politics, like religion, can support differing versions of "the truth" whether it be revealed in a blinding flash or through years of contemplation and development. But the far right, like the far left, goes well beyond the fringes in efforts to establish new paradigms which will appeal to certain constituencies but not offend outrageously other segments of society.

Unfortunately the far right is much more restricted in its scope than the far left and therefore has to cater to a much narrower mindset in its adherents which makes them more rigid and intolerant than the far left.

So you can always tell the ultra-conservatives but you can't tell 'em much.