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...platform to air his hard-line views on immigration. Fortuyn's friend and compatriot Theo van Gogh was working on a film about Fortuyn's assassination when he himself was murdered in 2004. His killer, a Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent angered by Submission, Van Gogh's polemic against Islam, left a note on the body signed "Saifu Deen al-Muwahhied." Wilders had been threatened in a letter with the same signature (which means "Unifying sword of religion") earlier that year. He still receives 24-hour police protection. "I lost my freedom," says Wilders. "It is a very high price...
Marine Le Pen Party: Front National Policies: Like her father, Jean-Marie, she argues for halting immigration ? and restoring the death penalty. Diverges from him by supporting women's rights, abortion and the creation of a "French Islam" Quote: "I have a very social vision of politics, and there are leftist voters who identify with my positions" - Le Pen explains her popular appeal...
...presence on the trail of Marine Le Pen, the 40-year-old daughter of FN leader Jean-Marie and widely tipped as his successor. This thoroughly modern incarnation of the far right supports equal rights for women, is pro-choice on abortion, and talks of creating a "French Islam" to integrate France's Muslim community. Just as mainstream politics can co-opt the rhetoric of the far right, Le Pen shows that the far right is learning to wrap itself in the language of reason...
...Freedom Policies: Focuses on ending immigration from Muslim countries and forcing Muslims already in the Netherlands to become more "Dutch." Would ban the Koran Quote: "It was a speech of appeasement, of ignorance" - Wilders on President Obama's address in Cairo in which he praised "civilization's debt to Islam...
...North Carolina An Alleged Jihad, Made In America His neighbors knew Daniel Boyd as a friendly drywall contractor devoted to his family. But prosecutors in North Carolina depict the 39-year-old as a would-be terrorist bent on murder abroad. Boyd, a U.S.-born convert to Islam, and seven other men were accused of stockpiling weapons and training for "violent jihad" overseas. The accused--all but one of whom are U.S. citizens--include two of Boyd's sons. Authorities say Boyd, the alleged ringleader, received terrorism training in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he fought against the Soviets 20 years...