Anti-Gypsy rhetoric on the rise

The far-Right party in the Hungarian parliament has called for camps detaining Gypsies, "if necessary for life".
This is in the midst of a Europe-wide backlash against Gypsies following population movements, particularly to Italy and France, after Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia joined the European Union.

According to the Telegraph:

" Jobbik party, the third largest in Parliament, proposed that Gypsies considered a threat to public order should be transferred to secure camps outside cities, warning that "civil war" could erupt unless the issue was tackled.

The governing Fidesz party branded the idea "outrageous", saying the solution was "not to set up ghettos, but to have strict laws and a strong police force".

A spokesman for the Hungarian Socialist Party said the call for camps was "reminiscent of the Nazi agenda for concentration camps 65 years ago". "

The latter are referencing ‘Gypsy Clean-up Week’ which took place throughout Germany in June 1938, in which Roma and Sinti men, women and children were targeted for persecution, hatred and imprisonment. The Sinti are another Romani people. Django Reinhardt, the great Jazz guitarist, was Sinti.

As to this case... how like the far-Right to be the ones to set expectations of violence - salivating at the prospect that some thugs will do their thing so they can say "You see? You see? I told ya so... The Gypsies and our opponents only have themselves to blame!".

They're so predictable.

Jobbik means "better and Right", and they describe themselves as a "radically patriotic Christian party" (oh great...) who were founded in 2002 as "the Right-Wing Youth Association", and gained support partly because there was another Right wing mob who are even worse: Magyar Igazság és Élet Pártja (MIEP) - Hungarian Justice and Life Party, who are racial Nationalists.
Jobbik's 2009 election slogan was “Hungary belongs to the Hungarians”. They have had co-operative talks with the British National Front.

Brooker's mosque commentary

Charlie Brooker offers an ultra-precise description of what the so called Ground Zero Mosque will look like...

"The planned "ultra-mosque" will be a staggering 5,600ft tall – more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth – and will be capped with an immense dome of highly-polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly toward the pavement, where it will blind pedestrians and fry small dogs. The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is."

The rest of his article, as published in The Guardian, is here.

(in case you're a reactionary troll... he's "exaggerating")

Why is this 'news'?

Via Reuters:

"A security worker at London's Heathrow Airport has received a police warning and faces disciplinary action over claims he ogled a female colleague using a full-body scanner, officials said yesterday. The 25-year-old worker made lewd comments after his colleague Jo Margetson, 29, mistakenly strayed into the scanner, which can see through clothes to produce an image of the body, the Sun newspaper reported. The case is believed to be the first of its kind since the full-body scanners were rushed into service at a number of British airports in the wake of an attempt by a suspected Muslim extremist to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on December 25. They are now being rolled out at airports across the world. Details of the incident at Heathrow's Terminal 5 on March 10 emerged on the day lawmakers said concerns that the scanners were intrusive had been overblown. Margetson told the Sun she had been "traumatized" by what had happened and had informed police and her bosses at the airport's operator BAA."

A 25 year old male made a lewd comment...
Gee... who'd have thought THAT could ever happen?

Who cares?
How about... "I was traumatized when someone nearly blew up my airplane?"
Get a grip, Jo.