Pim Fortuyn, who shook all Europe from beyond the grave in the Dutch elections on May 15, was assassinated by an animal rights guerrilla extremist just days before the vote. A wave of revulsion at his killing swept the Low Country (many Dutch voters, egged on [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Now the Labor Party in Britain have admitted to striking gays from a non-discrimination ordinance that would have included Muslims merely because it would have offended Muslims to be inclued in the same law. The situation for gays has become much clearer. In Europe the liberals have sold the gay population out to play catamite to some bronze age camel-and-boy-fuckers.
I am a Democrat who until today considered himself a liberal. If I were British, I’d be marching for an end to muslim immigration. I’d be street fighting with filth like Mr. Ireland
Pym Fortuyn was right. He opposed islamism; he did so to preserve the lives of others like him.
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