Mixed feelings, mixed feelings
Watching the Dutch election with mixed feelings. Wilders smells like an Agent Provocateur to me. He is definitely on the Populist side but he seems to be fulfilling the elite caricature of Populists. More anti-Muslim than anti-migration or anti-trade.

Nationalism will move more cleanly and rationally toward real solutions without Wilders as public icon. LePen is pushing toward real solutions, and the current leaders of Hungary and Poland and Slovakia and Macedonia and Turkey are ALREADY implementing real solutions. They understand the problem ACCURATELY AND COHERENTLY.

Europe's current migration problem is an intentional invasion sponsored by Soros to create chaos. Every aspect of the migration is calculated to ruin European civilization.

Islam is not the problem. Soros and western imperialism are the problems.

Muslims and Christians have coexisted for centuries in the Balkans. They occasionally fight because the Balkans enjoy fighting "about religion", but the Muslim vs Christian fighting is no worse than the Orthodox vs Roman fighting, and the fight usually turns out to be more ethnic than religious. Just like the supposed Shia vs Sunni conflict, which is mostly Persians vs Arabs.

Wilders wants to ban mosques. Terrible idea. Guaranteed to INCREASE problems with Muslims because it criminalizes ordinary non-migrant Muslims who haven't been causing trouble. Classic AP behavior.

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Mixed feelings the other way around: An EU court has reached a decision that is uncommonly sane and sensible. The headline makes it sound anti-Muslim: Top EU court rules employers have right to ban religious symbols. But the actual decision is a good balance of religion and commerce.

In Achbita’s case, the Court said it was for Belgian judges to determine whether she may have been a victim of indirect discrimination if the rule put people of a particular faith at a disadvantage. But the rule could still be justified if it was “genuinely pursued in a consistent and systematic manner” with a “legitimate aim”, such as projecting an “image of neutrality” as part of the company’s freedom to conduct business.

In the Bougnaoui case, the EU judges in Luxembourg said it was up to French courts to determine whether she was fired for failing to comply with a similar internal rule. If her dismissal was based only on meeting a particular customer’s preference, it saw “only very limited circumstances” in which a religious symbol could be objectively taken as reason for her not to work.

This will be good for Christians as well.

Doesn't matter much, because 99% of EU's actions are unimaginably satanic, out-Sorosing Soros. Still, it's interesting to observe exceptions.

Labels: Age of Stings

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