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Post by pieter on Dec 6, 2016 11:31:38 GMT -7
Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs)  Heinz-Christian StracheThe Freedom Party of Austria (German: Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) is a right-wing populist political party in Austria. The party, led by Heinz-Christian Strache, is a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group in the European Parliament. The ideology of the party has four main elements: ( 1) Right-wing populism, ( 2) National conservatism, ( 3) Anti-immigration and ( 4) Euroscepticism. The FPÖ was founded in 1956 as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents ( VdU), representing the " Third Camp" of Austrian politics, i. e. pan-Germanists and national liberals opposed to both socialism and Catholic clericalism. The party's first leader was Anton Reinthaller, a former Nazi functionary and SS officer. In the Austrian party system, the FPÖ was from its foundation a third party with only modest support until it entered into government together with the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), following the 1983 legislative election. In 1979, the party was admitted to the Liberal International. When Jörg Haider was chosen as new FPÖ party leader in 1986, the party started an ideological turn towards right-wing populism. This new political course soon resulted in a strong surge in electoral support, although it also led the SPÖ to break its ties. In 1993, after a controversial proposal on immigration issues, the adherents of a position closer to classical liberalism broke away from the FPÖ and formed the Liberal Forum ( LiF). This new party took over the FPÖ's membership in the Liberal International, since the FPÖ considered itself forced to leave. In the 1999 legislative election the FPÖ won 26.9% of the vote, its best-ever result in a nationwide election, and came ahead of the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP) by a small margin. This led the ÖVP to agree to form a coalition government with the FPÖ in 2000. The FPÖ soon became uncomfortable with governing and fell sharply in the 2002 legislative election, where it gained only 10.0% of the vote; however, the two parties agreed to continue their coalition following the election. In 2005 increasing internal disagreements in the FPÖ led Haider and many leading party members (including the party's ministers) to defect and form the Alliance for the Future of Austria ( BZÖ), which replaced the FPÖ as government partner. Since then, under Strache's leadership, the party has again attracted an increase in its popular support. In the 2013 legislative election the FPÖ won 20.5% of the vote and, more recently, it came ahead either of the SPÖ or the ÖVP in some state elections, entered in a SPÖ-led government in Burgenland and gained more than 30% of the vote in Vienna. Finally, in the 2016 presidential election, FPÖ member Norbert Hofer won the first round, receiving 35.1%, but was narrowly defeated by Green Party's candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, 49.7% against 50.3%, in the run-off. However, on 1 July 2016, the results were invalidated by the Constitutional Court of Austria due to possible procedural irregularities, after an appeal by the party's leader, Heinz-Christian Strache. The party lost again on 4 December, this time by a larger margin of 7%.  Johanna Trodt-Limpl (* 3. November 1955) ist eine österreichische Pädagogin und Politikerin (BZÖ, zuvor FPÖ). Trodt-Limpl war von 2004 bis 2009 Abgeordnete zum Kärntner Landtag und ist seit 2013 erneut Landtagsabgeordnete sowie Landesobfrau ihrer Partei in Kärnten. Seit März 2015 ist sie ebenfalls Bundesparteiobfrau des BZÖ.
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Post by pieter on Dec 6, 2016 15:21:36 GMT -7
Pieter Interesting continuation of political parties that may or may not have enfluence upon other states elections. The partie lead by Heinz Christian Strache has many attributes that smacks of NDP with a certain amount of anti-semitism mixed with Islamophobia. They seem to push that they are the German Austrians which on the surface means little. But, the little could by influence catch the attention of the Bavarians which could mean some problems for Federal Germany. For Bavarians have in past been a bit of concern in that regard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germanykarl If you read about Austrian 20th century history, especially about the twenties, thirties and fourties you understand that the FPÖ and probably also the BZÖ have roots in both the Austrian branch of Nazism (which by the way was also influential and connected to the German Nazi NSDAP, and Austrafascism), you could ad a third rather new ideology and movement to these two old far right ideologies and that is 21th rightwing populism, which is a combination of Euroscepticism, an anti-immigration stance and anti-establishment feeling (being against the old political elite in Vienna of Conservatives/Christian-democrats and Social Democrats; ÖVP and SPÖ). International relationsWhile the FPÖ is currently not a member of any European or international organisations, the party has ties with several European political parties and groupings. From 1978 to 1993, under the party's liberal leadership, the party was a member of the Liberal International. In the early years of Haider's leadership, meetings were held with figures such as Jean-Marie Le Pen of the French National Front and Franz Schönhuber of the German Republikäner. In the late 1990s he however chose to distance himself from Le Pen, and refused to join Le Pen's EuroNat project. Following the FPÖ's entrance in government in 2000, Haider sought to establish his own alliance of right-wing parties. For his project, Haider tried to establish stable cooperations with the Vlaams Blok party in Belgium and the Northern League party in Italy, as well as some other parties and party groupings. In the end, the efforts to establish a new alliance of parties were not successful.  The Austrian Freedom Party’s Heinz-Christian Strache, Front National’s Marine Le Pen and Northern League’s Matteo Salvini are leading party organisations built to last. ReutersUnder the leadership of Heinz-Christian Strache, the party has cooperated mainly with the Northern League, Vlaams Belang (successor to the Vlaams Blok, which it has traditionally maintained good ties with), and the Pro Germany Citizens' Movement in Germany. The FPÖ also has contacts with the Danish People's Party, the Slovak National Party, the Sweden Democrats, the Lithuanian Order and Justice, IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement, the Dutch Party for Freedom, Alternative for Germany and the German Freedom party. In 2007, the party's then-only MEP was a member of the short-lived Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty grouping in the European Parliament. Outside the EU, it has contacts with Tomislav Nikolić of the Serbian Progressive Party (formerly of the Serbian Radical Party), the Swiss People's Party, the Israeli Likud, the U.S. Republican Party and the United Russia party of Vladimir Putin.  Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party chairwoman Frauke Petry and Heinz-Christian Strache of the FPÖ Heinz-Christian Strache and Geert Wilders Heinz-Christian Strache and Filip de Winter from the Flemish Nationalist and far right Vlaams BelangAt a conference in 2011, Strache and the new leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, announced deeper cooperation between their parties. Shortly thereafter, the FPÖ attempted to become a member of the Europe for Freedom and Democracy group, but was vetoed by some of its parties. The FPÖ's two MEPs are individual members of the establishing European Alliance for Freedom. After the 2014 European elections, the party joined the National Front, the Northern League, Vlaams Belang and the Czech Civic Conservative Party in forming the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom, and participated along with these parties, the Dutch Party for Freedom, the Polish Congress of the New Right and a former member of the UK Independence Party in the Europe of Nations and Freedom parliamentary group.   (L-R) Italy's Lega Nord party member Matteo Salvini, Netherlands' far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) member Marcel de Graaff, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) former member Janice Atkinson, Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) member Harald Vilimsky, France's National Front political party head Marine Le Pen, PVV leader Geert Wilders, and Belgium's Flemish right wing Vlaams Belang party members Tom Van Grrieken and Gerolf Annemans pose for a group photo after a joint news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, June 16, 2015. jagahost.proboards.com/thread/19870/history-austrian-leader-engelbert-dollfu |
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Post by pieter on Dec 6, 2016 16:47:15 GMT -7
Pieter Interesting continuation of political parties that may or may not have enfluence upon other states elections. The partie lead by Heinz Christian Strache has many attributes that smacks of NDP with a certain amount of anti-semitism mixed with Islamophobia. They seem to push that they are the German Austrians which on the surface means little. But, the little could by influence catch the attention of the Bavarians which could mean some problems for Federal Germany. For Bavarians have in past been a bit of concern in that regard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germanykarl and his FPÖ party are very good at being a so called reasonable, Modern, far right party, he has left the path of clear and blunt anti-semitism, and moved his party to a Modern rightwing, Modern looking, younger, 21th century far right Populist party which attracts new generations of Austrians next to the older members and voters. Strache benefited from the Death of the Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria ( Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, BZÖ), the popular Jörg Haider, who had been a long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party ( FPÖ) himself before he left the party after an internal power struggle with Strache and other FPÖ members. The popularity of the FPÖ candidate for the presidency, Norbert Hofer, could be a near future problem for Strache. Heinz Christian Strache is the party leader of the FPÖ and a member of the Austrian parliament. Since the split, the FPÖ's results in state elections have been mixed. While it dropped out of the Styria Landtag and was reduced to 5.7% in Burgenland, it surpassed expectations in the Vienna elections of October 2005. Strache himself was the leading candidate in Vienna, and the party received 14.9% of votes. Strache's campaign, included slogans such as:- Wien darf nicht Istanbul werden (Vienna must not become Istanbul). A variation on an FPÖ slogan from the Haider era: - Wien darf nicht Chicago werden. Vienna has a significant Turkish minority, the FPÖ is opposed to Turkish EU membership and it refers to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, a symbolic historic victory of the West over Islam.- Daham statt Islam ("at home" [i.e., folks who are native to Austria], not Islam)- Deutsch statt "nix verstehen" (German, not "we don't understand")- Pummerin statt Muezzin (Pummerin, not muezzin). Pummerin is the main bell in St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna, and so a religious Christian symbol in Vienna.- Heimat im Herzen (homeland at heart)- Arbeit statt Zuwanderung (jobs, not immigration)2010 Vienna electionsIn the 2010 Vienna elections for mayor, city council, and district councils, Strache's party received 26% of the vote and increased their number of seats in the city council to 27. His support was strongest among young people under 30. The campaign included slogans such as:- Zu viel Fremdes tut niemandem gut. (Too many foreigners [or more literally: Too much foreign] does no one good)- Wir bewahren unsere Heimatstadt. Die SPÖ macht sie uns fremd. (We maintain our homeland. The SPÖ makes it foreign.)- Wir glauben an unsere Jugend. Die SPÖ an Zuwanderung. (We believe in our youth. The SPÖ in immigration.)- Wir schützen freie Frauen. Die SPÖ den Kopftuchzwang (We protect free women. The SPÖ protects the compulsory veil.)- Mehr Mut für unser Wiener Blut (More strength for our Viennese blood.)- Uns, geht's um die Wiener (To us, it's about the Viennese)Strache was once again accused of xenophobia during his campaign and responded formally in the press to the allegations. |
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Post by pieter on Dec 7, 2016 14:31:06 GMT -7
Dear Jaga, I agree with you, but I feel that Europe increasingly faces two kinds of intolerance. The Rightwing Populist, Far right Peoples Nationalist (or Neo Nazi) movements and arch conservative intolerance towards anything which is not 100% national and ethnic European from one side, and from the other side intolerance of large ethnic migrant Muslim groups in some Urbang agglomerations, large old city working class neighborhoods and migrant area's ( ghetto's) where often large groups dominate and show intolerant behaviour towards the original people and other minorities who form vulnerable minorities there. It worries me that there is now a tv program on Dutch tv of a very fine, experienced, old Dutch tv journalist who made a documentary series about the climate in the Netherlands for jews which shows the growing intolerant, xenophobic and anti-semitic climate in the Netherlands. She is not the typical ' victim jew', she does not play the race card and is not a zionist (she is part of ' Another Jewish Sound' - www.eajg.nl/principles - ), and the documentary is made by the Christian Evangelical Broadcast Corporation ( EO). After seeing the first episode of the series ' Canary in the coalmine' I was shocked. A lot of jews don't feel they belong in the Netherlands anymore due to blatant Islamic anti-semitism in the Netherlands, next to the traditional far right and leftwing anti-semitism which existed in Europe for a longer time. It seems that Islamic anti-semitism has roots in the thousand years old anti-semitism which already existed in Europe and came to the middle east via the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf from Adolf Hitler next to the anti-semitic propaganda of the Islamic clerics, the radical Sunni imams, Mullah's and Ayatollahs. I thought only French jews were considering leaving France, but fact is that the climate also has changed in the Netherlands so dramatically that Jewish people want to leave. Not only the weakest ones, like elderly, female singles or visible orthodox jews, but also secular, progressive and conservative ones. The old Dutch tv journalist (Jewish background) says that making this jewish documentary was the hardest thing she could do, and that talking to fellow jews from all different backgrounds didn't comfort her at all. They told her that they feel increasingly the tension of a changing Western-Europe, a Western-Europe, which is not Jewish friendly, nor Christian friendly or Pro-Western values. Many jews consider leaving the Netherlands and to go to Israel, because Israel welcomes every jew from over the world. This is a typical example of a tiny minority which doesn't feel safe in a majority environment which is indifferent of hostile. Many moderate jews, who are by the way very, very Dutch, don't feel comfortable by the presence of a large (and for them) hostile Muslim migrant community in the larger cities and towns, and in the same time they don't feel comfortable with the growing rightwing populism, nationalism and xenophobia. They understand the Muslims, the fears and the exclusion, discrimination and xenophobia towards Mulims migrants, but in the same time are the target of hatred and the anti-judaism of the Muslim migrants, which is often a merger of anti-Zionism and anti-semitism. Some jews understand the anti-zionism, but say that the anti-zionism must not be merged or confused with anti-semitism. Becaause not all Jews have a connection to Israel and not all jews are Zionists or Pro-Israel.American journalist speaks with a Dutch Jihadist in Syria. Guys like this walk around in Arnhem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Groningen and other Duch cities and towns. That is the reality today and it is a worrysome and scarry situation.The situation is very complicated in Western-Europe right now. You have the tension between the Non-Muslim and Non-Jewish Native European political right and left in Europe, tensions between the moderate traditional centrist Democratic political parties on one side and the far right Rightwing Populist and leftwing Populist political parties on the other side. A gap of trust between the Europan working class and the political, financial-economical and cultural elite. There is verbal and physical violence against Muslims too. Muslim women whom headgear is pullen off or who are cursed at at the street. Mosques being attacked, anti-Muslim articles, columns, essays in newspapers, magazines, news blogs, TV and Radio chanals. Since 911 the climate has changed over here, and the two political assasinations of the politician Pim Fortuyn and the filmmaker Theo van Gogh didn't improve the climate. Ofcourse the situation in every West-European country is different, but in general I am worried about the situation over here, because the political climate isn't healthy and normal, like we had for 70 years. Extreme parties are in parliament. And Islamic state/Al Qaida like demonstrations took place in The Hague. In Central and Eastern Europe you have Ultra Nationalist governments in Poland and Hungary, and in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Austria and Switzerland the far right is very strong too. Which direction are we going too? I hope that the arch conservative, rightwing populist, nationalist parties in the far right corner of the political spectrum moderate themselves a bit, because if they gain power I fear for massive disturbances. The left and moderate democratic parties and movements won't tolerate authoritarian, despotic, racist and xenophobic governments. Being stricter on immigration is different than excluding minorities and making second class citizens of minorities. Unfortunately the climate of Islamophobia, anti-semitism, xenophobia, racism, anti-left and anti-liberal emotions will continue for a while and probably also in Western-Europe we will see governments like Hungary and Poland emerge. In France and the Netherlands, the National Front and the Freedom party (PVV) are growing. And moderate parties are moving to the right with tougher immigration stances. Als Labour (the Social Democrats PvdA) and the leftwing populist Socialist Party (SP), and the center right Christian-Democrats. The only parties that didn't move to the right are the GreenLeft (leftwing), D66 (social liberal, center right) and ChristianUnion (Evangelical Christian, Calvinist Christian; Centre to centre-right) Germany has a landmass, a lot of rural area's and a few larger cities, the Netherlands has a lot of Urban agglomerations, cities and towns, and were have come to the situation of some sort of multi-cultural crisis, because the ideal of a melting pot doesn't work, because people live in seperate worlds. Even the leftwing and center-left party people of the Socialist Party (SP), GreenLeft (ther Dutch Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), the Party of the Animals, the center-left liberal D66 and the Labour party have little to no connection with migrants, because native Dutch peoples and migrant peoples live in different worlds. The leftwing and center-left Duch people live closer to their center-right and rightwing compatriots than to their migrant fellow citizens, even if there are migrant (and also mulsim) migrant politicians and councilmembers in these center-left and leftwing political parties. The Turks live in their Turkish Sunni Muslim and Turkish national pillar, the Turkish Kurds in their Kurd pillar, the Moroccans in their Moroccan pillar (Moroccan neighbourhoods where they speak a combination of Berber, Arabic, and large city dialects like Rotterdams, The Hague dialect, Amsterdam dialect and general Dutch). The society isn't inclusive and after decades the Second and Third Generation of migrants are still considered people with a guestworker/migrant background with a different exotic name, different skin color, different racial or ethnic looks, different accents, different cultures and different social and religious customs. It is very difficult to cross the cultural and linguistic and social boundaries. The main focus, goal, direction and political aim of politicians, parents, teachers, couches, trainers, educators, religious leaders, police officers, artists, musicians, scientists and people in general should be to bridge the gap between native Europeans and migrants. The biggest problem is that there is little contact between the two groups. There is an astounding lack of interest in the other, while we are living together in the same society, nation and country for decades. Native Europeans live their Western, Liberal or Conservative, European culture based, Native European linguistic, European lives and people from Muslim countries live their non-Western Moroccan, Turkish, Kurd, Afghan, Somalian, Iranian or Chechen lives, with their Muslim primary schools, Muslim highschools, Muslim kindergarten, and even in some cities Muslim boarding schools next to the Mosques, Madrassa's (Religious Muslim schools) and lives which are focussed around the Muslim communities of Turkish, Kurd, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunesian, Bosnian, Afghan, Iranian, Somali and other backgrounds. I absolutely reject xenophobia, discrimination, racism, islamophobia and anti-semitism, but in the same time I reject the anti-Western, anti-integration and rejectionist attitudes or stances or some Muslim migrants. Mind you not all of them, but some of them. I don't like these people within the Muslim migrant population and I am not tolerant or appeasining towards them I can assure you. This is Europe based on a Christian, Paganist (the Germanic, Slavic and Latin tribes before Christianity arrived), Humanist, Greek-Roman, Renaissance, Englightenment, liberal, conservative, social-democratic, christian-democratic, pragmatic, general democratic and freedom culture, legal system (law), Trias Politica (Separation of powers), and Judaic and Islamic elements (Spain, Cordoba, Moorish rule and influence on European christian thought, science, culture and philosophy), but not a Europe which is based on pre-dominantly Sunni-Muslim or Shia Muslim faith, Sharia, Hadith, Tafsir, and the Five Pillars in the faith of Islam. We democrats and Free Westerners must fight for a Free, Democratic and pluriform Europe of Free and Independent (sovereign) nations. In my opinion real freedom and democracy lovers and people who want to keep a free and democratic Europe will have to reject the extremist forces that want to change it forever. First of all the Islamist extremists who want to create chaos, terror and discord in the heart of Europe and secondly Rightwing extremists who want to destroy the democratic constitutions and freedom, democracy, equality and brotherhood. Therefor communication, exchange and a constant awareness of the dangers must be present. If native Europeans, integrated migrants and newcommers won't come over that bridge towards eachother, Europe will move towards darkness and conflict. If we do walk over that bridge towards eachoter, it will be still a difficult and confronational meeting, but we will learn eachother and 'the other', the migrant, the Non-Westerner from Asia, Southern-America and dark Africa will know our history, customs, christian heritage and culture and the way things go in Europe. Maybe then we might demolish the different pillars and can work on a United Europe. I have to admid and say that I am for stricter immigration laws, and that we have to invest first in the migrants that already in Europe. I am vehemently opposed to the mass immigration of refugees to Germany and Sweden in 2015 and 2016. I believe that only if the refugees would have been spread over all 28 EU countries plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, South-Africa, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Saoudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Egypt, Southern- and Latin-American nations, Japan, South-Korea, China and Indonesia (the largest Sunni-Muslim nation, which could take some Sunni-Muslim Syrian brethern in) than there would have been a fair share over all these nations, and the refugee crisis with the help of the United Nations, the EU and the USA to poorer nations, would have been better resolved. But the disproportionate amount of refugees in Germany and Sweden is simply irresponsible and together with the problems Germany already has with certain, Turkish, Kurd and Arab elements inside it's cities, this situation will be a threat to the liberal, progressive, democratic North-West European societies, cultures and nations we have. Denmark and the Netherlands were stricter and rightly so. Denmark even stricter than the Netherlands. I don't support the Hungarian, Polish or Russian governments or state systems right now, but mildly support the American (US), Danish and Dutch system. If you would merge them and find the best middle road, I would support that one. I think the Americans are better at integrating and maybe assimilating newcommers into the American society than the Europeans. I hope that in 10, 20 years time I still can live in a country where christians, atheists/secularists, Muslims, jews, Hindu's, Buddhists and people with other faiths, life philosophies and cultures can live next to eachother in peace. Cheers, Pieter P.S.- I am very critical about Muslim schools in the Netherlands, because I believe that they improve and promote seggregation. I think it would be better that all children go to the same public schools or to private schools. It is a fact that the Roman-Catholic, Protestant and Jewish schools don't lead to segregation or seperatism. I went to a Muslim primary school in Arnhem and I thought I was in another country. The atmosphere was different and I only saw kids with a Somali, Bosnian, Turkish, Moroccan, Afghan and Albanian background, all girls and women with headgears, and a poltical correct Dutch head of the school who didn't say anything which proved me otherwise. The existence of Black (=migrant) and white (= native Dutch European) schools is not good. |
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Post by karl on Dec 7, 2016 15:24:20 GMT -7
Pieter
I do agree within all aspects of your writing, for your work is reality of our known world we live in. I am sorry of your disappointment with your visit to the Muslim school, for your observation and assessment goes well with the reality of what these people are doing in separating them selves in the stead of acting as responsible guest in your country. For in the stead of becoming citizens of their adopted country they are going against it. These people seem to forget one thing---they left their home country for a reason, the country they are presently living in that places the food upon their table for them to eat, the roof over their respective heads was for the most part given to them, they have not earnt any thing, so what are they doing to earn their keep?
Your are very correct in your assessment, the young Islamic needs be to attend the same schools as nationals. In this manner they are gain the tools of socialization and their place in society as useful citizens.
It is though,to the Islamics them selves to solve this issue and related problems, not the state, not the nationals, not the Federal Government, but right smack in their respective laps. I say this with out anger, remorse of aggrievement, simply the reality of the present.
Karl
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