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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
I didn't know Jo Cox was muslim.
And are people still banging on about the "muslim ban"? Looking at what's happening in Europe, it's hard to blame people for falling for that sort of thing, especially in Germany.
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Did I say she was? She was killed because Thomas Mair, who had links to anti-muslim groups, saw her as a 'race traitor'. It was a politically motivated murder.
The Muslim Ban is still relevant because it's recently had a new iteration in which two other countries have been put on there as tokens to make the Muslim Ban seem less like a Muslim Ban in order to overcome the illegality of it.
You don't respond to extremism with extremism.
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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
one person in the UK and 12% of the German vote
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massive?
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It isn't if you ignore the fact that Extremism has been on the rise throughout most elections that's happened in recent years, thankfully in most cases they lost but ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. Pretending that extremism doesn't exist in politics just makes it easier for them to gain a bigger foothold in politics.
12% is a lot for an extreme party, they went from having no say or power to becoming the third biggest share of votes. It's worrying if they continue to garner support.