When the EU’s anti-terrorism czar was appointed in 2004, I remember reading a blog post somewhere that claimed he was the antichrist. The assertion wasn’t expressed as a euphemism to indicate Gijs de Vries was just a disagreeable chap, it was a genuinely-held opinion that de Vries was a signifier of the impending end times.
That was an isolated thought at the time. But since then, the moonbattery has increased and grown more elaborate. A comment to one of Bruno Waterfield’s posts in the Telegraph illustrates the extremity of some thinking these days. Essentially, it implies that europhobes should support islamic terrorism, as it may be the only hope for combating the overweening EU.
Am I spinning this out of proportion? I don’t think so:
At the moment, islamic terrorists are reviled. But we should be careful.
One day, we may come to rely upon them to take their war to the EU. If they did, there would be a groundswell of public support.
This one comment shows that the spectrum of euroscepticism is so broad it cannot hope to succeed politically.