By Nida Khan
President Donald Trump
reportedly wants to temporarily stop many refugees from entering the
country and halt immigration from ‘terror prone areas’. In other words,
he wants to ban Muslims. So what’s new? He told us precisely who he
was during the campaign cycle and what his lofty plans were. Trump
however, is not alone. All across Europe and the Western world, white
power is on the rise and their number one target appears to be Muslims,
Islam and immigrants.
Trump is slated to hold his first meeting with a foreign leader, the Prime Minister of the UK, Theresa May, on Friday. May, the Conservative rabble-rouser who took the helm after the UK’s shocking Brexit vote last year, enjoys the same nationalistic support at home that Trump does here so it’s only fitting that they would have a sit down during his first full week in office.
In France, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, is now apparently ahead in a survey of voters’ intentions for the first round of the Presidential election. A run-off vote will be held in May.
She recently stated: “2016 was the year when the Anglo-Saxon world woke up; 2017 will be the year where the population of continental Europe wakes up. It is no longer a question about possibility, it is a question of time.” She was photographed at Trump Towers in New York earlier this month, though Trump’s team insists there were no meetings between the two.
Le Pen has also apparently tweeted her support for Frauke Petry, the leader of the anti-immigration Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in Germany. According to polls in December, if elections were held now, the AfD would receive approximately 12 percent of the national vote, making it Germany’s third largest political party. That is no small feat.
Trump’s triumph in the 2016 election was praised by everyone from open Islamophobe Geert Wilders in the Netherlands to the far-right Golden Dawn party in Greece who hailed his win as a victory against illegal immigration and in favor of ethnically “clean” nations.
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Source: The Huffington Post
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