Actually, they are backed and financed by the Islamists.
Actually, the MSM and the political establishment are demonizing these groups because they have touched a nerve among the "country class." Government has become disconnected from the people they are supposed to represent. Immigration and the welfare state are destroying the average person's life.
The authors of this article point to the alleged sinister Islamic influence and antisemitism to marginalize and discredit the rise of nationalism in a sclerotic and dictatorial EU that governs without any real consensus. There is a growing disaffection in Europe and to some degree here that none of the major parties represent their interests and are making profound decisions that alter their lives for the worse.
Europe does have a problem, but it is not crypto-Fascism, which is a label that the authors use to discredit these new political actors.
Source..link?