The Toulouse killings have arrive at a time when French politicians employ a language of hatredOver the past few years of recession and regression,it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can't disappear wrong going to the lawful. Politicians across the continent have found a new magic formula for electoral success and survival by playing on fears of foreigners and particularly of Islam – the wink and a nod that says that immigration has been the root of our social and economic decline. This is by no means an exclusively rightwing vice. Anyone who has heard the Dutch Labour party recently will have difficulty putting light between them and the demagogue Geert Wilders.
Until today, they might have tried to argue that there was no harm in it, and that it's healthy even,a rebalancing of the scales after two decades of biting our tongues and creeping political correctness.
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Source: theguardian.com