Anti-Muslim Racist-Nationalist (euphemistically called “right-wing,” “right-leaning,” or “neo-conservative”) parties have made spectacular gains in most European countries, at the expense of socialist and other “left wing” parties, in one of the lowest turnout at the polls.

As Belgian News reported: “Families who have lost jobs and homes became an automatic target for the British National Party (BNP), Jobbik in Hungary, the National Front in France and the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands with their anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, anti-establishment proclamations.”

United Kingdom

In Britain, Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party (BNP), and Andrew Brons, another BNP politician, were elected to the European parliament. According to the Guardian, Sir Robert Atkins, the highest polling candidate, called Griffin’s success as a “sad day for British politics” while Labour’s Arlene McCarthy, said the BNP was “a party whose members include convicted rapists.”

In keeping with the tactic of the times — where victims are called perpetrators, before being victimised — Griffin said in his defence: “This is ordinary decent people in Yorkshire kicking back against racism, because racism in this country is now directed overwhelmingly against people who look like me.” Griffin also holds that immigration is harmful to Britain, particularly with the spread of radical Islam. “Take Bradford – it isn’t immigration that’s happening there, it’s colonialism,” he said.

Formed in 1982 by John Tyndall, the British National Party (BNP) is Britain’s premier racial fascist political party.  Tyndall, a confirmed National Socialist once proclaimed “Mein Kampf is my bible.” Since 1999 the BNP has been run by Nick Griffin, a racist and anti-Semite who himself is a former National Front chairman. Griffin has attempted to “modernise” the party by cultivating populist but nonetheless virulent anti-Muslim appeal based in particular on attack “Islam” as a religion. “This is a Christian country and Islam is not welcome, because Islam and Christianity, Islam and democracy, Islam and women’s rights do not mix,” he told Sky Television on Sunday night.

In Ireland, the Christian terrorist, violent extremist, party, “Sinn Fein has apparently done rather better than either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael.”

France

In France, the Front National (FN) led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, the pivotal figure in French fascism for almost four decades, has won 2 seats. Le Pen was one of the founders of the Front National in 1972, which represented the political union of fascists, racists, antisemites, former Nazi collaborators, Catholic fundamentalists and terrorists linked to the OAS, a far-right, underground, French nationalist organisation during the Algerian war. [Source]. Le Pen is known for his virulently anti-Muslim views.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ anti-Islamic party took 17 per cent of the country’s votes, taking four of 25 seats. For Wilders’ knolwedge and fear of Islam and Muslims are well-known; for example, see his Speech at the Hudson Institute in New York, 25 September 2008.

Austria

In Austria the main rightist party gained strongly, while “the big winner was the rightist Freedom Party, … [which] campaigned on an anti-Islam platform.”

Hungary

The Hungarian fascist (“far-right”) Jobbik party (Magyarországért Mozgalom – Movement for a Better Hungary) won three of 22 seats. Jobbik describes itself as Euro-skeptic and anti-immigration and wants police to crack down on petty crimes committed by Gypsies. Critics say the party is racist and anti-Semitic. Jobbik has a uniformed paramilitary wing, the Hungarian Guard, reminiscent of Hitler’s Brownshirt thugs, and is also said to be vehemently antisemitic.