LISTEN: The Night Watch, Part 1

LISTEN: The Night Watch, Part 1

Postby Oscar » Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:48 am

LISTEN: The Night Watch: The Rise of the Extreme Right in The Netherlands, Part 1

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CBC Radio One IDEAS March 9, 2017

On March 15th, the people of the Netherlands go to the polls. It's a historic election. A prosperous country that prides itself on diversity and tolerance finds itself in turmoil. The old political alliances that served the Dutch so well for a century-- alliances based on compromise, moderation and a shared sense of the common good -- those alliances are falling apart, under attack from the extreme right and a man named Geert Wilders.

"The Netherlands ours again" says his campaign slogan. He wants to shut the mosques, ban the Koran, and cut off immigration by Muslims. And lots of people agree with him -- his party, the Party for Freedom, is running neck-and-neck with the governing centre-right party. What's going on in this moderate, peace-loving country?

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