Pim Fortuyn

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Fortuyn

Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpɪm fɔrˈtœyn]; (February 19, 1948 – May 6, 2002) was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.[1]

Fortuyn provoked controversy with his stated views about multiculturalism, immigration and Islam in the Netherlands. He called Islam "a backward culture", and said that if it were legally possible he would close the borders for Muslim immigrants.[2] He was labelled a far-right populist by his opponents and in the media, but he fiercely rejected this label[3] and explicitly distanced himself from "far-right" politicians such as the Belgian Filip Dewinter, the Austrian Jörg Haider, or Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen whenever compared to them. While Fortuyn compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a socialist. Fortuyn however repeatedly described himself and LPF's ideology as pragmatism and not populism.[4] Fortuyn was openly homosexual.

Fortuyn was assassinated during the 2002 Dutch national election campaign[5][6][7] by Volkert van der Graaf. In court at his trial, van der Graaf said he murdered Fortuyn to stop him from exploiting Muslims as "scapegoats" and targeting "the weak members of society" in seeking political power.[8][9][10]
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do you think he was right wing?

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I don't know enough to say.

From what little I do know about Dutch society and from that wikipage he doesn't sound particularly right wing to me because he saw himself defending liberal values from ultra conservative Muslims and their intolerance much like liberals in the US aren't friendly toward the Christian Right for similar reasons. Granted, he could also be perceived as more nationalistic and painting outsiders with a wide brush which are characteristic of the right, but his focus seems to be more on their liberal values than things like race, religion, or nationality, and it seemed he was ok with Muslim immigrants who assimilated into society rather than maintaining a distinct culture that was intolerant of those different. That is to say he seemed to be reacting toward right wing traits of ultra conservative Muslims.

I'm also aware of "lover boys" in Dutch society, many of whom are from Muslim countries. They import sex slaves, but also turn Dutch females into sex slaves, including underage girls (though I don't know the age of consent there). It shocks, saddens, and scandalizes me that the country accepts this because they're saying even their own children don't matter, let alone in the rest of the world. And they do accept it because most of the time when victims of those pimps go to the police the police throw them out, and when the police rarely bust them for slavery, abuse, torture, gang rape, and more--of children at that and sometimes hundreds of times--they usually get less than 5 years (I've read of one that got 8 for some reason) and plenty get less than 1. That says they don't think it's a big deal.

And if anyone in the Netherlands (such as the parents of victims) feel similar as to myself they might take a very dim view for liberal reasons against the Muslim immigrants similar to how liberals in the United States tend to look down on Catholics and the Christian Right for aspects of its theology and the horrid practices of some members (though my view is that these crimes should be vigorously prosecuted and with much stiffer penalties rather than just telling Muslims they can't come because some of them are very bad apples, especially as these pimps can be of any nationality, even Dutch).

(Plus I also read a news story where a Dutch child beat another to get stuff in a video game--virtual robbery in a sense--and the robber got less than a month of community service; given the criminal was 13 I can accept that, but the focus of the courts was on the stealing of virtual property more than the violence and menacing with a weapon! I really do not get Dutch society if its legal system considers theft of fictional items in a computer game more significant than brutalizing and terrorizing someone into giving up the said fictional property in the first place.)