Europe's resurgent far-right and anti-immigrant parties trumpet a unified message: I told you so.

[pampango]

Even as Europe's Islamic community leaders lined up to condemn the terrorism, and a Muslim policeman emerged as a hero in Wednesday's drama, populist forces lost no opportunity to lash out against Europe's Muslim population. A day after terror struck Paris, Europe's resurgent far-right and anti-immigrant parties trumpeted a unified message: I told you so.

In Britain, Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-Europe, anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, said the attacks were the result of "a fifth column" of people living within Western societies "who hate us."

In the nation hit by the terror, Marine LePen, leader of the surging far-right National Front, urged the French to wake up to the threat of Islamic fundamentalism: "The time of denial, hypocrisy is no longer possible."

Some of the most vocal rightist response to the terror in Paris was in Germany, where the Nazi past has long made xenophobic rhetoric taboo. A leader of the far-right National Democratic Party, or NPD, said the party would mobilize followers to join anti-Islam street protests in the eastern city of Dresden that have been growing in size over the past three months.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/27790325/paris-attack-raises-fears-of-more-support-for-europes-right

Seems that the far-right is reacting about as quickly and loudly as we would have expected.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Sure hope everyone reads this story.

This so called austerity thingee being administered through out the world will only create more and more of these hate groups. The only winners are the 1%ers.

[pampango]

2. Austerity policies certainly make it much worse, but the hate groups exist in Germany, Sweden,

Norway and other countries where economies have fared much better and have not been much affected by austerity. Anti-immigrant attitudes, particularly towards Muslim immigrants, seems to happen almost everywhere but is aggravated in countries with severe economic problems.