UN chief compares Nigel Farage and Donald Trump to ISIS with a claim they all want to roll back history to a fictional 'perfect past'
- Human Rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein made the claims in a speech
- The high commissioner's main target was Dutch politician Geert Wilders
- He also named French politician Marine le Pen among 'demagogues'
A UN human rights chief has branded Nigel Farage and Donald Trump 'demagogues' and compared them to the ISIS terror group.
Zeid
Ra'ad Al Hussein said the pair - together with other politicians such
as Geert Wilders and Marine le Pen - shared with ISIS a desire to roll
back progress to an imagined past.
The
Human Rights High Commissioner lashed out at 'racists' who are confused
by his background as a white-skinned Muslim with a European mother and
Arab father.
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid
Ra'ad Al Hussein has compared ISIS to a string of populist politicians
including Nigel Farage and Donald Trump
The
inflammatory speech was aimed primarily at controversial Dutch
politician Mr Wilders who he attacked for a 'grotesque manifesto'.
Mr
Zeid said: 'What Mr Wilders shares in common with Mr Trump, Mr Orban,
Mr Zeman, Mr Hofer, Mr Fico, Madame le Pen, Mr Farage, he also shares
with Daesh (ISIS).
'All
seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form,
where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or
religion – living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of
crime, foreign influence and war.
'A
past that most certainly, in reality, did not exist anywhere, ever.
Europe's past, as we all know, was for centuries anything but that.'
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Mr Zeid branded the desire to recover a 'supposedly perfect past' a 'fiction' and said those who pursue it are 'cheats'.
In
the speech at the Hague, he insisted he was not comparing the actions
of populist politicians with the 'monstrous, sickening' activities of
the terror group.
But
he added: 'In its mode of communication, its use of half-truths and
oversimplification, the propaganda of Da'esh (ISIS) uses tactics
similar to those of the populists.
'And both sides of this equation benefit from each other – indeed would not expand in influence without each others' actions.'
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