Malta’s far-right festers in the wounds of society’s growing inequality – Matthew Vella (Malta Today)
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Was the senseless murder of Lassana Cisse Souleymane – gunned down while walking back home in Hal Far – a criminal act long destined to take place in safe, safe, but racist, Malta?
In the minds of many journalists, there is no argument that right-wing extremism has long been given a new lease of life on the unfiltered channels of social media. With the rise of the ultra-nationalist right in so many parts of Europe, came a new validation for Islamophobia, tribal nationalism, anti-feminism and anti-political correctness… right up to the free, unquestioned imparting of Nazi apologism by Norman Lowell on Maltese television.
All are dangerous and disgusting, with their whiffs of prejudice simply adding more to the collective stench of intolerance, which fed the dangerous, ideological climate of hate that created the violence of Hal Far.
The indignation of the Prime Minister was necessary, but he also presides over the economic formula that has now crafted a competition that encourages division, a sense that we must fight to survive, especially those denigrated as claimants of our national ‘generosity’
