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October 3, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-buruma3-2008oct03,0,2988238.story

Europe's Far-Right Revival Isn't Nazism

[Los Angeles Times] Ian Buruma - Two far-right parties, the Austrian Freedom Party and the Movement for Austria's Future, won 29% of the vote in Sunday's general elections in Austria, double what they got in the elections of 2006. Yet to see the rise of the Austrian right as a revival of Nazism would be a mistake. Both parties share the same attitudes toward immigrants, especially Muslims. But because the leaders of the two parties, Heinz-Christian Strache and Jorg Haider, can't stand each other, there is little chance of a far-right coalition actually taking power.

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