Far-right Freedom Party (PVV) local councillors in The Hague have demanded an apology from writer Karel Kanits for comparing their party’s leader Geert Wilders to Adolf Hitler. (Netherlands)

During Thursday’s Liberation Day festivities Mr Kanits described Mr Wilders as a “bleached Führer” – a reference to the anti-Islam MP’s trademark bleached hair.

“We are firm advocates of free speech,” said Freedom Party councillor Richard de Mos on Sunday. “But this sort of comparison, paid for out of Freedom Party voters’ taxes, is unwarranted. Of all days, on the day we celebrate the defeat of Hitler’s Germany in 1945, The Hague city council programmes a loudmouth who comes with this filthy and lowdown comparison.”

The Freedom Party councillors are demanding that Mr Kanits make a public apology and pay back his engagement fee.

Censorship
In April, the annual Willem Arondéus lecture was scrapped because historian and writer Thomas von der Dunk planned to compare the rise of the Freedom Party to the rise of Nazism. The lecture is named after an openly gay Dutch World War II liberation hero and is supposed to tackle controversial topics.

The selection committee said the planned lecture was too party political, and Mr Von der Dunk refused to tone down the content. He went on to deliver the address anyway outside the provincial government building.

There were claims that provincial councillors from the ruling VVD and Christian Democrat parties had the lecture banned under pressure from the Freedom Party. The minority coalition relies on the support of Freedom Party MPs in parliament.

At a Liberation Day festival on Thursday, the organisers banned a band from performing a song describing Geert Wilders as the “Mussolini of the Low Countries”

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National Front opponents hold anti-racism protest (France)

A year before the French go to polls, their country is divided into the pro and the anti National Fronts.

The opponents of the National Front, Europe's biggest far right party, have taken to the streets with one claim: no to xenophobia and racism, two issues that the party is associated with. 

When Jean-Marie Le Pen was the head of the National Front party, it rarely managed to get the support of the public. 

But things changed in January when his daughter Marine Le Pen took over the party's leadership.
Since then, she has won almost every opinion poll, beating President Sarkozy, former Prime Minister 
Dominique de Villepin, and the left party candidates.
 
That is a cause for concern for these demonstrators.

At the same time, far right party denies using violence and said, they are only claiming the right to keep French jobs in French hands. 

Instead, it blames its opponents for causing public disorder.

To my left are the demonstrators who are against the national front party, France's far right party and to my right, there are the police teams, surveying and blocking the area to prevent demonstrators from getting violent. One of the most important metro stations, which has the fastest metro here line 14, has been blocked to prevent the demonstrators from attacking it. 

This face-to-face blockade between the demonstrators and the police went on for almost half an hour.
Finally the demonstrators relented, but say they will be back to rally against the most popular French personality. 

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