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France elections: What makes Marine Le Pen far right?By Marysia Nowak & Becky Branford BBC News Narrowing divide on Islam and Islamist extremismLong before the Paris attacks, Marine Le Pen made a link between immigration and militant Islamism. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on 13 November 2015, she proposed to "expel foreigners who preach hatred on our soil" and to strip dual-nationality Muslims with extremist views of citizenship, a view traditionally associated with the far right.In an unprecedented move, those ideas were endorsed both by Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls and by President Francois Hollande, before eventually being dropped.Many of her views have been echoed by Francois Fillon too.Mr Fillon, a devout Catholic, described radical Islam as a "totalitarianism like the Nazis". Catholics, Protestants and Jews "don't denounce the values of the Republic," he said, indicating that was not the case with Islam."The clear blue water between the FN and the other parties has been disappearing and disappearing," says James Shields, professor of French politics at Aston University. Marine Le Pen associates herself with other right-wing leaders in Europe, for example Geert Wilders of the Dutch PVV Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38321401?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/f671cc6e-8cdd-4351-90d1-fcc3bae18534/france-presidential-election-2017&link_location=live-reporting-story
