The distant sound of breaking glass

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Posted by by Melanie Phillips on 15:43:42 2008/09/29

In Reply to: Austrian election - anti-Muslim parties win 33% of the vote posted by Dave

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The Spectator Spectator Business Wine Club Home Coffee House Magazine Blogs Politics Books Archive Life Style & Travel Classifieds Live THE SPECTATOR WEB Home > Melanie Phillips RSS Contact us Monday 29 September 2008 -- -- Dare to dream and make your ultimate trip a reality The latest culture as recommended by our staff Michael Henderson Michael Henderson suggests Email registration Free weekly email update Great products and special offers for Spectator readers Click here for great value events Click here for exclusive articles, offers, tasting notes and discussion Spectator Hotels A site for the finest hotels in the United Kingdom and Ireland where you can request free brochures to help plan your next holiday, family occasion or week-end break -- The distant sound of breaking glass Monday, 29th September 2008 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE HE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-style-parent:""; font-size:11.0pt;"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-"Times New Roman";} We should all be shuddering at the news from Austria where neo-Nazi parties, including the Freedom Party led by Hans-Christian Strache (pictured) have emerged as the biggest parliamentary block. It’s awful not just because it’s Austria, that cradle of Nazism which shows yet again that its terrible past remains its present. It’s because the implications are much wider for the whole of Europe – and are unlikely to be recognised before the danger spirals into the unspeakable. These parties campaigned on an anti EU integration and anti-Muslim platform. Their success is due to the enormous feeling among the people of Europe against, on the one hand, the destruction of their powers of self-government and their assimilation into the undemocratic Euro superstate, and on the other the threat to western culture from Islamist conquest. On both of these seismic issues, the leaders of the democracies are either burying their heads in the sand or are actively bringing them into being. With no democratic party addressing these concerns and instead demonising legitimate nationalist feeling as ‘racist’, xenophobic’ or ‘Islamophobic’, people are turning to parties which truly are racist, anti-foreigner, anti-Muslim, anti-Jew and sometimes, indeed, neo-Nazi, but which are exploiting this political vacuum just as all such parties have always exploited other vacuums in leadership. This presents a nightmarish prospect in which, if the democratic parties of Europe continue to demonise legitimate aspirations to maintain national cultures against undemocratic and anti-democratic forces, more and more people will be drawn to these parties – see the sophisticated pitch by and increasing support for the BNP in Britain, and social disorder will rise. The rise of these noxious groups is entirely due to the abandonment by social democratic parties of the defence of the nation and the right of individual peoples to their own cultures and self-government. The continuing rise of the BNP in Britain is overwhelmingly the outcome both of the fanatical Europhilia which masquerades as the centre ground while engaged on its project to destroy Britain as an independent nation, and the systematic destruction of British national identity and the demonisation of those Britons who object by the dominant left-wing elites. The awful thing is that, as the far-right advances and social disorder increases – as it will -- muddled liberals and malign leftists will blame these political and social calamities on ‘the far right’. As a result, the steady encroachment of Islamism will proceed apace -- and anyone who objects will also be demonised as ‘the far right’. The rise of the neo-Nazis will thus turn the defence of democracy toxic. There is therefore a danger that the only people who will be fighting the Islamic fascists and in defence of the nation against the supranational supremacists will be the fascists. If this truly frightful outcome is to be avoided, it is imperative that social democratic politicians in Britain and Europe wake up from their trance and realise just what it is they have to defend, and against whom. Previous Back to Melanie Phillips Next Blogs: Clive Davis | Stephen Pollard | Americano | Coffee House | Trading Floor Actions: Print this article | Email to a friend | Permalink | Comments (8) Post this entry to: del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit Post a comment Your comment:* Your name:* Your email address:* (We won't publish this) *Required information Please click the button only once - your comment will not be published immediately Tiberius September 29th, 2008 4:34pm I would turn your penultimate paragraph round a little, Melanie, and say that if a Tory Government does not deal with the existing encroachment (and I can see no other one doing so), social disorder will follow. I'm not sure anything the defenders of the realm do will increase the pace of encroachment - it's moving apace as things are. edster September 29th, 2008 5:23pm congratulations to Austria for waking up Fabio P.Barbieri September 29th, 2008 6:00pm The Berlusconi government in Italy is, however barely, on the right side. Berlusconi himself recently publicly compared Ahmedinajad to Hitler, provoking a public protest by the Iranian government. Of course, the European left, with Zapatero in the van and the Italian opposition not bothered by the fact that they are defaming their country and people, are all screaming fascism and racism. We are in for bad days. The left is becoming increasingly fanatical and deaf to reason. There are people in my own family with which it is literally not safe to talk about anything except the weather. How did we come to this? Ron Todd September 29th, 2008 6:01pm I know a lot of prople that would happily admit to being well to the left of centre who are as worried as the rest off us about mass immigration. Islamic imigration in particular. I think that it is greatly to the credit of the people of this country that there is not more support for the far right. soupy September 29th, 2008 6:43pm how can we be so sure that these parties struggling in defence of christian europe are in fact "fascist" and/or neo-nazi? where's the proof? Gareth September 29th, 2008 7:09pm As the neo-Nazi parties gain support, they are bound to become more moderate. If, for example, there are 10,000 fascists in Britain and the BNP has 10,000 members, they could all be fascists. If the membership increases to 100,000, the fascists will be outnumbered by 10 to 1. Nick Kaplan September 29th, 2008 7:20pm Can we please stop being so complicit in defining racist scum like the BNP or the Austrian Freedom Party as the ‘far-right.’ These monsters hate the all those things that those of us on the right hold dear like individual liberty and the rule of law. They are not right wing; they defy political classification under the simple left right divide. It is only the left that define such people as right wing in order to shut down debate by tainting sensible comments from those actually on the right with the suspicion of racist motives. Jutta Starke September 29th, 2008 7:45pm Dear Melanie Phillips I am Sorry, You are definetly totally wrong. The FPÖ in Austria and the little Party Pro Köln or Vlaams Belang are never Fascists or Nazis/Neonazis. Politically Correct Media name and fight them like this.The Nazis fight them too - they love the Holocaust-Denyer Ahmadinetschad. Hitler was a friend of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and that was the beginning of the Islamisation of Europe: Bat Ye`or "Eurabia-Land of Islam-land of Dhimmitude" Straches Party does not fight against foreigners or even muslim People - they fight against Politics, Media and churches, who are responsible for the Islamisation.I get tears in my eyes, because these small Partys are faught by the lefts and the extreme right, just like in a sandwich. But not you too! Please! This is a wish from Hamburg Advertisement Search this blog Melanie's Published Articles The dehumanised landscape of Planet Warnock The slow car crash of the Labour government The double standards of American Jews Look Here: Tragedy in Britain. Palin by comparison Taking the glove-puppet off Has Bush forgotten his own doctrine? The ‘Me’ in media A very Blairite plot Britain’s dangerous political vacuum Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist. 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