Within a month, between 22–25
May 2014, the European Parliament elections will be held in all member states
of the European Union. The rise of right-wing populist movements across Europe
has started to raise concerns not only to European governments but also
countries around the world and the immigrants in Europe as well.
Since the end of WWII, and after
all the miseries and casualties the European countries suffered due to the Nazi
and Fascists policies, the Right- wings parties scattered, and couldn't get
appeal in the European communities. However, and for the first time since the
end of the Second world war, European countries are witnessing the revival of
the right wings parties. The Great Recession and resultant Euro Crisis seem to
have strengthened these parties, reinforcing euroscepticism and leading many
frustrated people by a stagnant economy to embrace xenophobia, and social
conservatism.
As these are the European trends,
it seems legitimate that the Arabs and Muslim citizens are getting more worried
about their future in Europe, especially after the developments in the Arab
world and the so called "Arab spring" which highlighted the issues of universal "Jihad" and
terrorism. However, it seems that the threat of the right -wings policies has
been exaggerated, and some questions can be raised in order to determine the
responsibilities of all sides in this issue:
- Is there a real difference
between the left- wings' policies and the right ones? Aren't the leftists who
accepted the American policy blindly in the middle East, aiming to destabilize
the Middle East in the name of "constructive Chaos", then promoting
the Muslim Brotherhood rule in the MENA region, thus leading to the displacement
of Christians of the orient? As politicians use populist rhetoric to win votes,
one should examine and question how such groups differ from far-left parties, or
even the political mainstream policies.
- What did the leftists' do to
the Palestinians? and what is the historical role of the Europeans in the
formation of Israel on the Palestinian territories?
- How did the Arabs benefited
from the "Socialist" policies of the French president Francois
Hollande?
- After the observation of the
West-backed revolutionaries in "maidan" in Kiev, and the role of the
New Nazis' in overthrowing the Ukrainian president, is it true that the
European Leftist ideas are in real clash with the right wings ideologies?
and then the more important
questions:
- how can the Arabs blame European
citizens for their xenophobia, or for voting to the right-wings parties as a
punishment to his governments supporting radical Islamic groups; while Arabs,
themselves, had listed these groups on their terror lists, and are trying to
convince the European governments to ban them as terrorist movements? How can
we urge the European citizens not to vote for the rightists, and support the
previous political trends, who supported radical terrorist groups in order to
get rid of Bashar Asaad, and opened media, embassies, and foreign ministries to
such terrorists who are now swaggering in the streets of Brussels, Paris,
London etc., and summoning online threats to the Europeans every day?
Actually, the answers of these
questions may not dissipate legitimate concerns of Arabs and Muslims in Europe, but the fear of
the rise of the far right-wings in the forthcoming elections should make them
reconsider their aggressive speeches against those who hosted them, integrate
more in European societies, and mainly, accept cultural diversity, renounce
terrorism, and never allow fanatics and radicalism to spread in their European
environments.
