Oskar Freysinger

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Oskar Freysinger
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Freysinger at the 2011 Geneva Salon du Livre
Member of the National Council of Switzerland Parliament
for Valais
In office
1 December 2003 –29 November 2015
Personal details
Born (1960-06-12) 12 June 1960 (age 64)
Sierre, Switzerland
Political party Swiss People's Party
SpouseGhislaine Héritier
Children3
Alma mater University of Fribourg
Occupation
  • Author
  • politician
  • teacher
Military service
RankAppointé

Oskar Freysinger (born 12 June 1960) is a Swiss author and former politician for the Swiss People's Party, who served as a member of the National Council of Switzerland from 2003 to 2015. [1]

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Background

Freysinger was born in Sierre. [2] He studied at a German-speaking school in Sion, and later studied German literature and philosophy, and French literature, obtaining a teaching degree in 1985. He studied at the University of Fribourg. [3] He has taught at the Lycée-Collège de la Planta since 1987. [3] He is married to Ghislaine Héritier and has three children. [3]

Political career

From 1997 and 2001, Freysinger was a communal counselor at Savièse for the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. [3] He co-founded the Valaisan branch of the Swiss People's Party, which he headed from 1999 to 2002. [3] He became a member of the cantonal parliament of Valais from 2001 to 2003, and of the National Council of Switzerland from 2003 until 2015. [2]

His main proposals include the revocation of article 261 bis; hold naturalisation by popular vote; expulsion of foreigners convicted of crimes; and strict regulation of drugs. [3] He has been considered "a leading anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic figure on the European scene". [4]

Freysinger played a crucial role in the 2009 Swiss minaret referendum to ban Islamic mosque minarets, and he participated in a counter-jihad conference in Paris in 2010. [5] [6] [7] He has also been on the board of advisors of the counter-jihad organisation Stop Islamization of Nations (SION). [8] [9] [10] He sees Islam as essentially a political religion and therefore subject to secular law. [11]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Oskar Freysinger". Federal Assembly . Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Freysinger Oskar". Federal Assembly. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Présentation". ofreysinger.ch. Archived from the original on 12 December 2009.
  4. ↑ Nilsson, Per-Erik (2015). "'Secular Retaliation': A Case Study of Integralist Populism, Anti-Muslim Discourse, and (Il)liberal Discourse on Secularism in Contemporary France" . Politics, Religion & Ideology. 16 (1): 87–106. doi:10.1080/21567689.2015.1012160.
  5. ↑ Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (PDF) (in Swedish). Expo Research. p. 47. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2024.
  6. ↑ Engelhart, Katie (30 November 2013). "The rise of the far right in Europe". Maclean's.
  7. ↑ "Freysinger Feted As a Hero At Paris Counterjihad Conference on 18 December 2010". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 24 December 2010.
  8. ↑ Berntzen, Lars Erik (2019). Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism: The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN   9781000707960.
  9. ↑ Othen, Christopher (2018). Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency. Amberley. p. 271. ISBN   9781445678009.
  10. ↑ "Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) Calls on UN to Protect Christians of Syria". Press Release from PR Newswire . Reuters. 20 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  11. ↑ Stéphane Kovacs (February 12, 2009). "Oskar Freysinger, le pourfendeur des minarets". Le Figaro (in French). Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
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