----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 9:17 PM Subject: Re: SCOUTED: French Elections
> > Dan Minette wrote: > > > >> I can't see the parallel. Surely Le Pen is a racist, but I expected > >> that the 9/11 events would be his biggest voter. > >> > > > >Well, aren't both far right xenophobics, with a history of anti-Semitism? > >Don't both worry about the dilution of the true stock of the nation? Isn't > >his party rightist with an anti-globalization bias? > > > But Le Pen, AFAIK, has never made any movement agaist the Jews, > because the focus of his hatred are the immigrants from Africa > [specially algerians]. The BBC describes him as The far-right leader who in 1987 described the holocaust as a "detail of history" at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1942000/1942612.stm AP mentions the same thing. This sounds like the usual Holocoust minimilization nonsense one sees with far right groups. Not as severe as "6 million lies", but certainly minimizing the importance of what happened. Dan M.
