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Pim Fortuyn, "the leading politician in the Dutch elections this year", was shot yesterday. Adam Curry is blogging a lot about what's going on. Morning news shows clips of foreign coverage. Most shocking was what I saw from the Bigs in the US. Without fail all three major networks ([ABC], [NBC], [CBS]) labeled Pim Fortuyn as ultra right and/or racist. Phrases such as "running on an anti muslim platform" or "the Dutch Le Pen" are incorrect. He points to [Michael Gove] saying *He may have been a “cultural protectionist” like [LePen]. But the culture he wished to protect was the Dutch libertarianism (Libertar Ian) so familiar to many Britons from their weekends in Amsterdam, so congenial to him as a gay man, and so threatened, he claimed, by the incursions of Islam... His quarrel was not with different races, but a belief system he considered incompatible with Western freedoms.*
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog