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France is on the precipice of a far-right landslide (www.middleeasteye.net)

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To paraphrase philosopher Antonio Gramsci, we are witnessing not an event, but an epoch. The eventual rise to power of the National Rally would be one of its chapters.

This epoch began with the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and the forces at play today are the mature offspring of that “war on terror”. While these movements refuse to hide their supremacist nature and authoritarian intent behind a veneer of political decorum, they do not fundamentally differ at their core from the governments that preceded them; they merely call for draconian Islamophobic measures to be adopted faster, with the backing of entire societies.

The proposed hijab referendum in France should not be understood only as the move of an obsessively Islamophobic party, nostalgic for its colonial past. More broadly, it offers a perfect opportunity for an obsessively Islamophobic nation, nostalgic for its colonial past, to adopt legislation that could drive the last nail into the coffin of Muslims’ freedom of religion.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Add as well Italy (already there), and probably in November, Spain. Austria and the Netherlands slippery slopping towards it.

I just hope UK stays away of Reform now that it split.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, Italy is not the same, say what you will about Meloni, but she is not bought by Russia like AfD and Le Pen, she is also not trying to destroy the EU.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

I'm talking about the EU becoming a far-right zone, because reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Italy

"In June 2024, a Fanpage.it journalist infiltrated a Roman section of the party's youth organisation "National Youth". The resulting investigation showed how militants frequently use the Nazi slogan "Sieg Heil!", make fascist salutes and praise Benito Mussolini. The organisation is said to have a policy of masking all these aspects publicly, while in private they are tolerated and promoted"

They do seem to move like a duck and talk like a duck.