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Entry posted by 1131989 · January 4, 2015

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Bassa's far-right has been rocked by two separate scandals in recent days. The left-wing 11 March movement, commemorating the date (11 March 1989) when Bassa ended the Cold War policy of seclusion that sought to isolate the island from excessive Soviet and American influence, is gaining in polls after these two revelations:

First, the ISIS recruitment of French-Bassan residents mentioned below turned out to be a hoax. The three French nationals turned out not to be fighting in Sinjar, Iraq. Instead, their passports were reportedly stolen by their employer, a Member of Parliament for the far-right who had infamously suggested that migrants "speak Kreyol at home." The theft and resale to Islamists in France was believed to be a desperate attempt to discredit European and French immigration and the Member of Parliament has been arrested pending trial.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08/a-german-political-party-wants-immigrants-to-stop-speaking-foreign-languages-even-at-home/

Secondly, a political news conference at the historic Palm Fort, a building whose oldest parts are believed to predate Afro-European settlement in Bassa, was disrupted after the Israeli ambassador accused the aforementioned parliamentarian of covertly funding Likud and radical settlers in concert with European and American far-right movements. In what has allegedly become a trend in several European countries, anti-Semitic but pro-Israel factions have gained in power thanks to a poor economy and unassimilated Muslim immigrants: http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/48874-israel-and-europe.html

ISRAELI AMBASSADOR: FAR-RIGHT IN EUROPE, USA, BASSA FUNDING RADICAL SETTLERS

In other news, Bassa has celebrated ten years of same sex marriage. Thanks to Voodoo's traditional tolerance of homosexuality (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/vodous-acceptance-of-gays_b_821215.html), gay bars and clubs have flourished in the Republic, such as this one:

The largest such chain of stores and clubs, the Queer Steer, has over 20 locations nationwide. This strong tolerance manifested itself in the passage of gay civil unions (1998), gay marriage (2010), and most recently straight civil unions (imposed by the nation's constitutional court in 2012 as part of a freedom-of-religion case that argued that the government should provide a secular alternative to marriage for gay and straight couples). Politicians from the left and center are proposing a more radical bill that will aim to fully divorce (no pun intended) religion and government; the Vodou Democratic Party has yet to endorse or oppose the changes.