Extreme right-wing violence in the Netherlands soared by 75 percent last year, according the annual Anne Frank Foundation report on extremism, which was released yesterday…The report's co-author told Haaretz that anti-Semitic hate crimes -- which constituted 13 percent of all cases -- are often falsely represented as anti-Zionist. According to Willem Wagenaar, 2006 saw 35 anti-Semitic instances out of a total of 265 hate crimes. The overall number of racial offenses dropped by 10 percent from the previous year, which saw 41 anti-Semitic attacks… For example, one group of extreme-right youths, who were found guilty of torching both a synagogue and an Muslim school, claimed they had set the synagogue on fire to protest Israel's policy."… About a quarter (23 percent) of all hate crimes in 2006 were directed at Muslim immigrants.It seems that extremely right wing people in all nations will target ethnic minorities, as well as religious minorities. From either blowing up an abortion clinic, to torching a synagogue the adherents of radicalized right-wing politics seem to constantly turn to violent behavior.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/896587.html
I would like to ask people in the comment section to tell me what they believe a major difference between the radicalized left wing and the radicalized right wing is. I’m curious to read the opinions of others, on the major underlying differences between these two forms of political extremism.
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The main difference would be that extremists on the right wing of the political spectrum resort to violence very quickly, while extremists on the left wing will generally refuse violence to such a point that if they were in charge all of the enemies of the country would destroy the country.
Please do not use explicatives in the comment box. I am sure you can get your point across in a well mannered way.
liberals are not violent? have u ever seen an anarchist rally?
I'm actually very suprised, the Dutch in general are considered very liberal and probably the most tolerant towards immigration in their country. At least they were, until the killing of Theo van Gogh by a Dutch-Muslim immigrant. Then the public opinion became a bit more conservative. However, regardless of what occured, the Netherlands has always been a place tolerant towards religious freedom and practice, but you must be willing to hear critical analysis of your religion.
The radical left consists of people who protects the radical right-wings ability to speak freely about destroying freedoms of others. Ironic isn't it?
actually anti-semitism is just one of sides of the problem. hatred to national minoritie or religious minorities-that is problem and we see growth of crimes based on this. in usa, russia (gergian and armenian people are target there), iran ( national minorities are in a very bad situation there)... i think its some kind of internal problems of this countries. maybe low level of life maybe something else brings stupid people to such actions...
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