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	Pim Fortuyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fortuyn was born on February 19, 1948 in Velsen, to a Roman Catholic family.
		Fortuyn was buried on July 20, 2002, at Provesano di San Giorgio della Richinvelda (Provesano), in the province of Pordenone in Italy, where he had owned a house.
		Fortuyn proposed that all people who already resided in the Netherlands would be able to stay, but he emphasised the need of the immigrants to adopt the Dutch society's consensus on human rights as their own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pim_Fortuyn (2546 words)

	Reason
		Fortuyn's case is considerably more interesting than are the merely xenophobic political movements of Denmark or Belgium, because he attempted to turn Europe's immigration debate on its head.
		Fortuyn pointed out that he did not call for repatriating immigrants, as did some politicians elsewhere, but rather argued for their assimilation into Dutch culture and its pro-diversity traditions.
		Fortuyn, both alive and dead, is categorized as a xenophobic right-wing extremist, period.
	www.reason.com /hod/cf050702.shtml (655 words)

	List Pim Fortuyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List Pim Fortuyn) is a political party in the Netherlands.
		Pim Fortuyn began organising the party on February 11, 2002, the day after he had been dismissed as lijsttrekker by the Leefbaar Nederland party.
		Fortuyn was accused of being a racist, an accusation he denied.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_Pim_Fortuyn (1178 words)

	Peaktalk - FORTUYN'S CASE
		In a way, Fortuyn was ahead of his time, he believed in a “contract society” that was governed by contracts rather than employment agreements and he believed in the ability of each of us to freely compete in a marketplace governed by these independent contracts rather than centralized top-down agreements.
		Fortuyn had grown up during the 60s and 70s and was very much aware of the importance of those years for the liberation of women, gays and sexuality in general.
		Fortuyn was not always the diplomat, but he was very often, if not always, right, he did not hate, he was open and looked for a “tough debate” yet, what he got in return was hate, invective and disrespectful undeserved slander.
	www.peaktalk.com /archives/000082.php (1820 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Great white hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fortuyn, 54, was a gay academic and former Marxist who, despite only having been running for parliament for about eight months prior to his assassination, had already won a third of the votes in his hometown, Rotterdam's, local elections, earlier this year.
		Memorials to Fortuyn sprang up in spots loaded with significance: the street in front of his stately home in Rotterdam was filled with flowers and farewell notes as was the entrance to the broadcasting centre in Hilversum, outside Holland's capital Amsterdam, where Fortuyn was shot as he was leaving a radio studio.
		Fortuyn's speedy rise and the emotional reactions to his assassination have convinced most Dutch politicians that they have fallen dangerously out of touch with their peoples' true concerns.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/586/in1.htm (901 words)

	CNN.com - Politicians lament Fortuyn's death - May 23, 2002
		Fortuyn, whose party Pim Fortuyn's List was expected to take up to a fifth of Dutch parliamentary seats in the May 15 general election, was gunned down outside an Amsterdam radio station on Monday.
		Fortuyn has been described as a far-right politician because of his anti-immigration policy and anti Muslim comments, but he defied any membership to the left or the right -- preferring to be bracketed with the ideology of Britain's former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
		Fortuyn was sceptical about the European Union and called for a referendum on plans to enlarge the organisation.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/06/fortuyn.reaction (506 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Obituary: Pim Fortuyn
		Professor Pim, as he liked to be called, shocked the Dutch establishment in February with a call for the repeal of the first article of the constitution which forbids discrimination.
		Fortuyn's anti-Muslim views, calls for an end to all immigration and pledges to come down hard on crime struck a chord with voters despite the country's celebrated reputation for liberalism and religious tolerance.
		Fortuyn wanted to reduce significantly the number of immigrants and asylum-seekers who arrive in the Netherlands each year, from a current 40,000 people to just 10,000 "in no time at all".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1971462.stm (639 words)

	Independent Gay Forum - Flowers for Pim
		Fortuyn, an outspoken defender of the rights of gays and women against intolerant Muslims who enjoy his country's public benefits while attacking its values, was widely and falsely characterized by news reports as a racist, right-wing extremist -- despite the racial diversity in his own party.
		Pim's campaign was a nuisance because he highlighted the conflict between two cherished liberal values: the rights of gays and women on the one hand, and multiculturalism on the other.
		It is not Fortuyn, smeared posthumously as both a libertine and a fascist, who represents the decadence of the West, but the entrenched elites who are indignant at his challenge to their simplistic political categories.
	www.indegayforum.org /authors/rosendall/rosendall1.html (893 words)

	Rod Dreher on Pim Fortuyn on National Review Online
		Fortuyn's legion of enemies denounced him as a fascist and a racist, partly for his tough-on-crime policies, but mostly for his belief that immigration should stop, and that immigrants — particularly Muslims, whose views on women and gays he considered barbaric — should be pressed harder to assimilate into Dutch life.
		Fortuyn, who frequented gay bars in his hometown of Rotterdam, was an unapologetic libertine who stood firmly behind Dutch beliefs in a liberal, tolerant society, but he maintained that Muslims and other immigrants who refused to accommodate themselves to Dutch values were a threat to liberty.
		Fortuyn may or may not be a martyr in the war against fundamentalist Islam, but he is almost certainly a martyr in the war on political correctness.
	www.nationalreview.com /dreher/dreher050702.asp (1522 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Dutch far-right leader shot dead
		Fortuyn, 54, was attacked as he left a radio studio in the central Dutch city of Hilversum.
		Fortuyn has provoked public indignation by calling for the Netherlands' borders to be closed to immigrants and by describing Islam as a 'backward' religion.
		Fortuyn said that, if he was successful in the 15 May elections, he would only be satisfied with the post of prime minister and would not accept a place in the cabinet.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1971423.stm (630 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Lone gunman kills Dutch far-Right leader
		PIM FORTUYN, the maverick leader of Holland's anti-immigration party, was shot dead yesterday as he left a radio station.
		Mr Fortuyn caused shock waves after he and his followers won 17 of 45 council seats in Rotterdam's elections in March with an aggressive nationalist and anti-immigrant platform.
		His Pim Fortuyn List party was expected to win between 23 and 25 seats in the parliament out of a total of 150, making it the second or third largest political group.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/07/wfort07.xml (827 words)

	CNN.com - Anger follows Fortuyn shooting - May 7, 2002
		Fortuyn, 54, was shot in the head and chest at least three times at close range at 6 p.m.
		Fortuyn, however, had his own bodyguards and his party headquarters in Rotterdam were always guarded.
		Opinion polls had shown that Fortuyn's De Lijst Fortuyn party, running on an anti-immigration platform, was on course to win about 15 percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/06/fortuyn.shooting (726 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn assassinated
		Fortuyn had dictated debate during the campaign with verbal attacks on the country's growing Muslim population and strident criticism of the national government.
		Fortuyn's rise mirrored a right-wing resurgence in several European countries, lately highlighted by the anti-immigrant Jean Marie Le Pen's surprise showing in the first round of French presidential elections.
		Fortuyn's popularity had exposed a deep vein of suspicion of immigrants in Europe's most densely populated country, about 2 million of whose 16 million people are not native Dutch.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,710927,00.html (832 words)

	fortuyn
		Fortuyn was almost universally characterized in the U.S. and European media as a paradox: a fascist bigot who sought to close his country’s borders to Moslem immigrants but who was also, perversely enough, openly gay.
		Fortuyn knew that if Dutch Moslems had their way, such punishments would be instituted in the Netherlands as well.
		The new leader of Fortuyn’s party, a fl man whose parents immigrated from the Cape Verde Islands, may or may not take Fortuyn’s place as head of the movement; we must only hope that whoever does will, like Fortuyn, be a genuine democrat and not a Le Pen or a Haider.
	www.brucebawer.com /fortuyn.htm (886 words)

	The nationalism of Pim Fortuyn
		Pim Fortuyn's party fragmented in the two years after his assassination, but he was voted 'Greatest Netherlander of All Time' in November 2004.
		Fortuyn himself said in private, that most of his candidates were second-rate, but their stature did not diminish his success.
		Pim Fortuyn was an exponent of this selfish nationalism: although the Netherlands has the money and the expertise to construct flood defences for poorer countries, he found that wrong: "They can reinforce their own dikes in Egypt and Bangladesh.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/pim-fortuyn.html (13215 words)

	CNN.com - Pim Fortuyn: Man of paradox - May 9, 2002
		Although Fortuyn was part of a new wave of Dutch politicians and often perceived as an extremist, he insisted he was not like Jean-Marie Le Pen and wanted nothing to do with the French far-right leader.
		He was at pains to point out that he was not against immigrants, but he questioned their ability to assimilate into a liberal and racially tolerant culture and argued immigration had to be curbed in order for the Netherlands' liberal social values to survive.
		Fortuyn's platform seemed out of place in the ultra-liberal Netherlands, which he argued was full up with 16 million people.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/06/fortuyn.profile (478 words)

	Peaktalk - REMEMBERING FORTUYN
		Today it is three years ago that Pim Fortuyn was shot by an animal rights activist, ending the life of a great political mind and someone who was very close to becoming prime-minister of the troubled Dutch nation.
		Fortuyn was above a child of the 1960s, politically on the left, openly and proudly gay and an academic with a PhD in sociology.
		Fortuyn was furious and it encouraged him to abandon the publicly funded academic world, literally by striking out as a self employed consultant in Rotterdam, the nation’s most culturally diverse city.
	www.peaktalk.com /archives/001279.php (762 words)

	The GULLY \| Mourning Pim Fortuyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The hearse carrying the coffin of Pim Fortuyn drives slowly through the crowd on its way to the town of Driehuis Westerveld for the funeral, May 10, 2002.
		It is rejection, humiliation, and varying heights of glass ceilings that sometimes push the children of immigrants to embrace the aspects of their cultures of origin that are not compatible with the democratic values of their Western hosts, sometimes becoming more "Muslim" than their parents, rejecting society before it rejects them.
		Fortuyn may not have had the solution, but he was right to identify this as a simmering problem in densely populated Holland, where between one in eight and one in ten is an immigrant.
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/020513_pim_fortuyn_holland.html (1161 words)

	Pim Fortuyn
		Pim Fortuyn has been haunting Dutch politics ever since he was murdered, on May 6th last year.
		Instead of condemning immigration per se, Fortuyn in particular sought to warn against the threat intolerant islamist groups of immigrants pose to the principles of European civil society.
		However, Fortuyn was right to draw attention to the issue of the integration of immigrants already living in the Netherlands.
	home.tiscali.nl /sylvester/pim.html (1259 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Pim Fortuyn
		But what Fortuyn did say was "Close the borders", and those words have been enough to send shock waves through a country that has prided itself on the stability of its political system.
		Had he lived, it is quite possible that Fortuyn could have ended up either as the leader of the opposition, or kingmaker in a new centre-right government.
		Fortuyn was born in Velsen, a town in north Holland, one of many children of a conservative, middle-class, Roman Catholic family.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,711097,00.html (863 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dutch politician Fortuyn shot, killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By Phil Nijhuis, AP Dutch television said Pim Fortuyn was not taken to a hospital.
		Fortuyn, a former academic and columnist who led an openly gay lifestyle, had dictated debate during the campaign with verbal attacks on the country's growing Muslim population and strident criticism of the national government.
		Television said paramedics treated Fortuyn where he fell at the entrance to a building, and he was not taken to hospital.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/05/06/dutch-politician.htm (653 words)

	Pim Fortuyn: Assassination silences a powerful voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pim Fortuyn was a flamboyant gay man — hardly a jack-booted fascist as the media sought to portray him.
		Fortuyn stated, "I have gay friends who have been beaten up by young Moroccans in Rotterdam." His immigration philosophy derived precisely because of the socially tolerant nature of the Netherlands, a quality he treasured and wanted to preserve.
		LPF is the populist Lijst Pim Fortuyn political party which carries on the idea of immigration sanity in the Netherlands.
	www.limitstogrowth.org /WEB-text/pim.html (1989 words)

	Salon Directory
		Fortuyn had a weekly column at Elsevier Magazine (which is also the magazine I write for) from 1994 until 2001, and Fortuyn, who was 54, built his reputation there as a political hell-raiser.
		Fortuyn was among the first in Holland to wonder out loud how an open democratic country should balance the fundamental value of religious tolerance with the threat conservative Islam poses.
		The frightened establishment is not responsible for Fortuyn's death, of course.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/05/08/fortuyn/index.html (928 words)

	Lijst Pim Fortuyn
		Pim Fortuyn began organising the party on February 11, 2002, the day after he had been sacked as lijsttrekker (head of the list of candidates) by the Leefbaar Nederland party.
		Fortuyn was accused of being a far-right racist, an accusation he vehemently denied.
		He did not advocate deporting immigrants already in the country, nor closing all borders, though he did advocate setting an immigration quota that prohibited Muslims from entering the country.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lp/LPF.html (879 words)

	Holland's Pim Fortuyn Murder Conspiracy - The Truth?
		You might have heard of the assasination of Pim Fortuyn, Holland's most populair politician ever, who was shot 9 days before the elections, 15th of may 2002, the day on which he would be most likely chosen as Minister President of Holland.
		She claims to have video and audioevidence of the murder - Showing the murder of Fortuyn himself, images of a Hitman on the roof and his getaway in a car.
		Fortuyn murder containing images of the roof positioned hitman, Volkert van de Graaf both his approach and actions, as also the exact actions of all witnesses on the murder scene.
	www.rense.com /general32/conspi.htm (394 words)

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