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Filip DeWinter Addresses The Concern Over His Relationship With Jean-Marie Le Pen
The one thing that has most stuck in my craw, about the recent controversy over the Center for Vigilant Freedom's Counter-Jihad Conference being sponsored by the Vlaams Belang, is that VB's leader, Filip DeWinter, seems to have a special affection for French National Front Leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Indeed, DeWinter has a photofraph of himself, with Le Pen, which is prominently displayed on his bookshelf in his very own living room.
The prominent essayist Fjordman is also none too happy about DeWinter's affiliation with Le Pen, and thereby, Fjordman questions the wisdom of CVF associating themselves with DeWinter.
Today, I noticed that Christine at Center for Vigilant Freedom has posted an interview wherein DeWinter addresses this issue. Check it out:
Q: You are said to have on your desk two pictures in which you are shaking hands with Le Pen and Haider. Why display those two photos? What does it say about you that you have selected those two pictures to highlight on your desk?
A: Such photo’s exist of course. But they are not on display in my office.
We have contacts with Haiders en Le Pens parties. On issues as immigration, we even have common ground. But we don’t like Haiders kowtowing for dictators as Saddam Hoessein or Khadaffi.
We don’t like Le Pens typically French views of centralisation, we don’t like his anti-Americanism and we absolutely don’t like his anti-Jewish provocations. Just as almost all French politicians, he has this disastrous illusion that it’s France’s destiny to have a special, privileged relation with the Islamic world.
This explains the French’s biased political position against Israel. This explains their alliance with Saddam Hoessein, their support of Khomeini when he was preparing to topple the shah.
Le Pen shares this views, and we don’t like that at all. He is not the monster the leftists say he is. But I am not identifying with him. We are certainly no holocaust deniers. In Belgian parliament we supported the law who punishes holocaust denial. Recently we even published an article in our party magazine about Raoul Wallenberg, who saved ten of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
In our party magazine, we repeatedly denounced arsons against synagogues and violence and racist insults against Jewish people, even when most of the mainstream press kept silent about this, because the perpetrators were Muslim youths.
That’s an indication too: our party is very strong in Antwerp. We have more than 100,000 voters there. There were many attacks against Jews in Antwerp: a car bomb, a grenade attack on a school bus with Jewish children, some murders and attempted murders, and many, many cases of harassing, insult and intimidation. But the perpetrators were invariably Muslim youths or foreign Muslim terrorists.
In thirty years, not one of our militants ever committed even one anti-Semitic act. These are not empty words. These are facts. You can check them. Ask the Jews in Antwerp. This is at least a strong indication that we are no anti-Semites.
Mr. Marinower says we are evil guys, just pretending to be decent right-wingers. People can play a misleading role for some years. But is it possible that tens of thousands of people play a misleading role for almost thirty years?
Ok, he certainly makes good points. However, his answer that,
"Such photo’s exist of course. But they are not on display in my office..."
is an obfuscation. True, the photo is not in his office. Instead, the fact is, the photo is displayed, as I said, prominently in his living room. Here, watch this video:
If he has nothing to hide, then why the obfuscation?
Today, I noticed that Christine at Center for Vigilant Freedom has posted an interview wherein DeWinter addresses this issue. Check it out:
Q: You are said to have on your desk two pictures in which you are shaking hands with Le Pen and Haider. Why display those two photos? What does it say about you that you have selected those two pictures to highlight on your desk?
A: Such photo’s exist of course. But they are not on display in my office.
We have contacts with Haiders en Le Pens parties. On issues as immigration, we even have common ground. But we don’t like Haiders kowtowing for dictators as Saddam Hoessein or Khadaffi.
We don’t like Le Pens typically French views of centralisation, we don’t like his anti-Americanism and we absolutely don’t like his anti-Jewish provocations. Just as almost all French politicians, he has this disastrous illusion that it’s France’s destiny to have a special, privileged relation with the Islamic world.
This explains the French’s biased political position against Israel. This explains their alliance with Saddam Hoessein, their support of Khomeini when he was preparing to topple the shah.
Le Pen shares this views, and we don’t like that at all. He is not the monster the leftists say he is. But I am not identifying with him. We are certainly no holocaust deniers. In Belgian parliament we supported the law who punishes holocaust denial. Recently we even published an article in our party magazine about Raoul Wallenberg, who saved ten of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
In our party magazine, we repeatedly denounced arsons against synagogues and violence and racist insults against Jewish people, even when most of the mainstream press kept silent about this, because the perpetrators were Muslim youths.
That’s an indication too: our party is very strong in Antwerp. We have more than 100,000 voters there. There were many attacks against Jews in Antwerp: a car bomb, a grenade attack on a school bus with Jewish children, some murders and attempted murders, and many, many cases of harassing, insult and intimidation. But the perpetrators were invariably Muslim youths or foreign Muslim terrorists.
In thirty years, not one of our militants ever committed even one anti-Semitic act. These are not empty words. These are facts. You can check them. Ask the Jews in Antwerp. This is at least a strong indication that we are no anti-Semites.
Mr. Marinower says we are evil guys, just pretending to be decent right-wingers. People can play a misleading role for some years. But is it possible that tens of thousands of people play a misleading role for almost thirty years?
Ok, he certainly makes good points. However, his answer that,
"Such photo’s exist of course. But they are not on display in my office..."
is an obfuscation. True, the photo is not in his office. Instead, the fact is, the photo is displayed, as I said, prominently in his living room. Here, watch this video:
If he has nothing to hide, then why the obfuscation?
Now, I would like nothing better than to believe that the Vlaams Belang is a party full of Freedom-loving counter-Jihadis like all us perfect people here at IBA.
;-)
But, you know what? I don't have any pictures of myself with David Duke sitting on my mantle.
At the very least, one would think that, as a prominent politician in a major Western country, DeWinter would have the sophitication to understand that he must distance himself from the likes of Haider and Le Pen. But, DeWinter possesses no such sophisitication.
Therefore, one must wonder why it is that the Center for Vigilant Freedom would believe this man to be a worthy ally?
- Wilders Considers Allying With Vlaams Belang
There have been a few posts very recently and quite the discussion in some of the threads about Vlaams Belang, BNP, Jean Marie LePen et al. Geert Wilders has said he would not ally with these groups (rightly so say humble little me). Now there is this...
- Atlas Shrugs Posts Diana West Piece Professing Ignorance Of The Ethnic Nationalist Roots Of Filip Dewinter
Pamela and Diana West, apparently, believe that they can resurrect this argument a year later, and win by default because none of us want to get back in it. Diana West says (and once again, Pamela posted it) that: Dewinter, Borghezio and Strache are...
- David Duke's Defenders And Vlaams Belangs Defenders...just One Tiny Difference
The jewish people. But according to Duke, this week, just the extreme jews. (He insisted that his words only target "Jewish extremists") Any buyers? I thought not. However, according to some, jewish people are not exactly running out to support (that's...
- Robert Spencer On The Current Controversy
Yesterday, Fjordman posted an essay at Gates of Vienna which gave his perspective on whether the current rift in the blogosphere (between Gates of Vienna/Atlas Shrugs on one side and LGF/IBA, etc. on the other side. Fjordman's essay was well-reasoned,...
- Is Filip Dewinter A Nazi?
Charles, at Little Green Footballs, believes it is clear that he is. Pamela, and Baron and Dymphna at Gates of Vienna say he is not. After all, his party, the Vlaams Belang, supports Israel. I say it is more than likely that DeWinter is, indeed, a white...