acronym stands for "Party of Freedom," a remember the name of Berlusconi's People of Freedom.
Just like the PDL, the PVP is a right side, very critical of cultural relativism and egalitarianism of the Left.
addition, the PVV is the third largest party in Holland, a bit 'as our Northern League and, just as the League's tough positions against immigration, particularly from the Islamic countries.
Finally, just as the Italian center, does not like to be compared to parties that are inspired by the social right, to die a fascist.
surface analysis, therefore, the PVV delivery to the category "populist and xenophobic parties of the new populist right" to which belong many of Recent European political groupings.
Yet, to look better, the party of Geert Wilders is rather a novelty in the European political scene, and has very little to do with the Italian center.
Geert Wilders, who has quickly earned nicknames such as " Mozart" and "Captain peroxide " because of the peroxide mane - frankly ridiculous - the Netherlands is an atheist, secular, libertarian, and at the same time , suspicious of all religions and their dogmas. As a good
Netherlands, Wilders is proud of tolerance and open-mindedness that the company of the Netherlands is able to express considering it a sign of civilization.
The Netherlands that Wilders dream is still a multi-ethnic and multicultural country, where they can find a place of mutual respect and individual rights.
Wilders also calls himself a great friend of Jews and Israel (replacement) and is a staunch defender of the rights of gays and women, whose equal protection and believed to be a key element of a modern society and a distinctive feature of Western culture.
We are light years away isolationism Provincial League, as well as battle-homophobic, anti-Semitic and to protect the "race" of neo-fascists, we are, however, curiously close to the ideas of the Italian Radicals.
So why the Italian press, every time I talk to Geert Wilders, feels compelled to label it as "xenophobic," "racist" and leader of a political formation of "extreme right"?
The reason is simple: the PVV is strongly determined to minimize immigration from Islamic countries in the Netherlands and is contrary to the full veil, and other manifestations of fundamentalism, such as segregation and reduction in a state of semi-slavery of women.
Xenophobia?
Let those with the brain turned on. Before you tie labels, says what we feel the direct question: the PVV argues that Islamic fundamentalism is incompatible with the democratic life and to represent a form of fascist totalitarianism that uses the civil liberties of the West in order to destroy it.
In essence, Wilders believes that it is possible to keep in place a democratic system of rules that protect individual rights, freedom and equality of all citizens, especially vulnerable groups such as homosexuals, children and women if - at the same time - there is defended by the opposing forces, both internal and external, to "undermine and subvert those rights.
Wilders has reiterated several times, and many times his statements were ignored by the press, that his political battle not about all Muslims, but only those that for religious reasons, refuse to integrate into the system of freedom and individual rights in Western societies. That
to label Wilders as racist xenophobic far-right looks more like the consequence of incorrect old categories twentieth century by the media to a new political phenomenon of the twenty-first century, combining secularism, individual liberties and civil rights, but denies cultural egalitarianism.
The idea of \u200b\u200bWilders in the Netherlands could only find a finished work accomplished, it seems like a motorbike with pride of the Western world, a voice that strongly affirms that a democratic society, free and secular, with all its faults , it is because the best mankind has produced so far, because it is the only one that ensures respect for individual rights and personal vocation of each one, a voice which reminds us that the democratic balance is, by its nature, inherently unstable and therefore needs to be continually reaffirmed and protected from internal and external enemies.
Now, I do not know about you, but when I read the news that Dutch beat groups of Islamist fanatics young gay men in the street and that the Left defends them (!), I wonder if the world today still know what they are and the Right the Left, if these two categories still have a meaning, after the end of the Cold War, or at least should be redefined.
I believe that people like Geert Wilders are trying to lay the foundations for a different value system, free from the barriers of the past.
I am fully aware, and I imagine it is also Wilders, that the passage is narrow and that the boundary between the protection of liberal secularism as a beacon of the world and xenophobia boorish Northern League is very unstable.
But I am convinced that, in this historic crisis of ideals, the attempt is fair and that the benefit may be great for the whole Western world and beyond.
Regards,
(Rio)
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