I was sent a link to this clip over at Islam Vs. Europe and took the liberty of having it translated and subtitling it. Please click over for the rest of the story. I hope to have more on this from a Dutch video on the same matter tomorrow.
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Belgian police charge Islamist over mini-riot
Belgian prosecutors on Thursday charged a high-profile Islamist radical with stoking hatred and violence during racial disturbances in Brussels last week.
Fouad Belkacem, a 30-year-old Belgian man of Moroccan origin, was picked up at 6:00 am (0400 GMT) at his family home in the northern city of Antwerp, and was placed in custody in a city jail.
Antwerp prosecutors’ spokesman Paul Van Tigchelt said he was charged with “incitement to hatred and violence against a group of people because of their beliefs,” a charge that could carry a sentence of between one month and one year behind bars.
Belkacem is being pursued after posting an 11-minute video on YouTube the day after the controversial detention of a woman wearing a niqab — or full Muslim veil, which is banned under Belgian law.
Police had said the woman assaulted officers, but Belkacem, self-styled spokesman for a group called Sharia4Belgium, said at the time that “the devil’s servants who held our sister want to wage war on Muslims, but they won’t win in Belgium.”
In May, Belkacem was sentenced to two years in prison, one suspended, for incitement to racial hatred, but pending an appeal had yet to do time. He will go before a magistrate next week.
Previously, Belkacem had publicly urged Belgian Muslims to join armed jihadists.
The Sharia4Belgium website was inaccessible on Thursday.
The Molenbeek district of Brussels was hit by two nights of street disturbances in the wake of the incident on May 31.
Belgium classical liberal, Filip Dewinter, puts a bounty on Burkas
Right-wingers offer $325 burka bounty to anyone who reports veiled women to Belgian police
Anyone want to come to Belgium and go burka spotting?
H/T Ted L
National Post:
Agence France-Presse Jun 6, 2012 – 2:04 AM ET | Last Updated: Jun 6, 2012 10:05 AM ET
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
BRUSSELS — Belgian right-wingers have offered a bounty of €250 ($325) to anyone who reports a veiled woman to police, they said Tuesday after last week’s riots in Brussels over the arrest of a woman wearing a niqab.
Filip Dewinter, a senior figure in Vlaams Belang, a right-wing party, said the violence had made police apprehensive about enforcing the burka ban and the payment should put pressure on authorities to further enforce it.
“It’s a textile prison for the women who have to live under it,” he said.
Last week, protesters hurled bins and metal barriers at a police station after Stéphanie Djato, 24, was arrested for refusing to remove her face veil.
“They tried to enter by force, but they were not able to,” a spokesman for Brussels police told broadcaster RTL.
“So instead they threw metal barriers and bins.”
Ms. Djato, who was waiting at a streetcar stop, scuffled with officers after she refused to show them any ID. During the mêlée, a policewoman was injured.
Sharia4Belgium:”We muslims have not even a gram of respect towards you infidels”
Translated by Hermes:
Joelle Milquet, the Belgian federal interior minister vowed to punish the “unacceptable and utterly astonishing” declarations of the representatives from the radical islamist group “Sharia4Belgium” made in a press conference in which they justified the behavior of one of its members which injured a female police officer after having refused to unveil herself. The Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels, which is populated by an important muslim immigrant community, has returned to normality after the severe incidents which took place there last thursday, and which made authorities declare a curfew.
The minister Milquet declared that “beyond this unacceptable happenings, the unbelievable declarations made during the demonstration, the press conference and in the video made public are unacceptable and deeply condemnable”. Fouad Belkace, the spokesperson for this extremist organization declared that he was proud of Stephanie’s attitude, a converted Belgian who refused to unveil herself when asked to do so by the police officer, because the wearing of the Niqab or any other article of clothing covering the face of a person is forbidden (in Belgium)
Belkace even said that “given the fact that western women want to show themselves just as objects of desire, the officer with the broken nose could take advantage of the situation and undergo plastic surgery”, and “she would have broken her spine if God had wanted it so”. The press conference of the organization was sprinkled with declarations like “we muslims have not even a gram of respect towards you infidels nor your way of life, because our religion is superior to yours.”
According to Milquet, these statements “will have consequences”, for “justice is doing its job”, and meanwhile the security forces “will strengthen their fight against radicalism”, for which she foresees the introduction of a “specific plan.”
The problem is that the incident could have political implications intertwined in all directions. A socialist deputy of Brussels from Moroccan origin, Jamal Ikazban, has denounced in the press that the happenings are “due to provocations from both sides”, but in fact liberals, which are at the opposition side in Molembeek, have blamed socialists for their failed integration policies. On thursday, a gossip about a muslim woman who had allegedly been raped began to circulate during the incident with the police, and this created a sudden demonstration against which five police squads, 2 water cannons and a helicopter had to be deployed in order to contain the crowds.
Translation of video: Michael Laudahn
From this website:
Sharia4Belgium expands to Brussels
Now the Sharia4Belgium moslem extremists try to expand their action territory from Antwerp to Brussels. This is being stated by police and justice, after several days of disturbance in the Brussels municipality Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Last night, new fights erupted when police wanted to control the identity of a number of suspects.
Sharia4Belgium puts on a little show for us all
H/T Hermes
Muslims attack Belgian police June 1 2012
Apparently one of them wasn’t sufficiently deferential to all things Mohamedan
There is more info at Snaphanen and Europe-News.
Thanks to Michael Laudahn here is one from Dutch language media in Belgium:
BELGIUM: VEILED WOMAN BEING DETAINED BY POLICE, HEAD BUTTS COP BREAKS HIS NOSE
Lets see how lightly the authorities treat her.
H/T Anushirvan
Police station surrounded
News of the incident spread quickly and soon the police station was surrounded by around 100 youths.
The Brussels West Police Services called in re-enforcements from the Federal Police and other Brussels police forces to contain the situation.
Belga
Nevertheless, several windows were smashed and bus-shelters damaged by the youths.
Six people were detained. The Mayor of Molenbeek Philippe Moureaux (Francophone socialist, photo) went to the scene to try and help diffuse the situation.
By 9:30 pm calm had returned to the vicinity of the police station.
SHARIA4BELGIUM ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS DEMANDED RELEASE OF THEO VAN GOGH KILLER
And as far as ignorant politicians, and their cadre of analysts in the various think tanks of Europe are concerned, it’s we in the Counter-jihad, the supporters of liberal democracy, minorities and real human rights, that are the radicals. Think again.
On National Liberation Day, Muslims ask for Release of Murderer
On National Liberation Day, 4 May, twenty radical Muslims of the Sharia4Belgium group demonstrated before the high security prison in Vught. They asked for the liberation of Mohammed Bouyeri, who was sentenced to life in prison for the cruel murder of mediamaker Theo van Gogh in 2004. They said that the Dutch were feasting while many innocent “brothers” are in jail. At the end of last year, the same group disrupted a debate about the modernization of Islam in Amsterdam.
H/T: BadNewsFromTheNetherlandsBlog Via: Elsevier.nl
Moroccan Muslim Brotherhood PM refuses to talk with female Belgian minister
From Point De Bascule:
Sheik won't shake
From Point Abdelilah Benkiran does not seem to conceive that a foreign government could send a female representative to talk with him. During the whole meeting he talked strictly with Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders and refused to speak with the Belgian minister of Justice. French version HERE English translation by Point de Bascule benkiran From left to right: Annemie Turtelboom, Belgian minister of Justice, Didier Reynders, Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs and Abdelilah Benkiran, Moroccan Muslim Brotherhood PM
ILLEGAL MUSLIM MIGRANTS HURL ANTI-SEMITIC SLURS AT JEWISH SCHOOL IN BELGIUM
Sad part is, this kind of talk is entirely common within the Muslim communities and the OIC denies that it’s even Jew hatred.
Antisemitic statements at a Jewish school in Brussels
Brussels – At around 15:40, four individuals of Arab-Muslim origin arrived at the door of the Athenaeum Maimonides in Anderlecht and tried to pull the door to enter multiple times. The security services of the school intervened and were joined by police officers on site. When checking on individuals, one of them said,
“I do not care to touch the door of shit dirty Jew.”
A complaint was filed with the police. The four individuals are illegal in Belgium.
H/T: Tanguy Veys
2000 Muslims march in Anderlcht for the murder of a shiia imam by Sunnis in Belgium
CBN: Islam in Belgium.
This is grim.
“Salafist stormed mosque in with ax and petrol”
The following is an original translation of an article from Belgian media on the storming and burning of a Shia mosque in Belgium March 12 2012
Thank you Ethan for doing this work for us. To see the original story in Dutch with a few more pictures please click the link above.
Eeyore
Translation below:
UPDATE: In an petrol attack at a Shiite mosque in Anderlecht one person is dead.
The victim, the imam of the mosque, was suffocated in the smoke of the fire that was caused by a molotov cocktail. the Representatives of the Belgian Muslim community say: , “the Salafist movement, a fundamentalist Islamic movement that belongs to Sunni Islam, is responsible for the attack.”
The deceased imam had first tried to extinguish the fire, along with another member of the mosque. All in Vain. Both tried afterwards to get outside through the upper floor, but only one man survived,” said Azzedine Laghmich, a Shiite leader, who works in the mosque. According to Laghmich, a man with a knife and an axe stormed inside the building and started a fire with gasoline. Then he walked back outside, shouting Salafist slogans about the conflict in Syria. Passers-by stopped him him and held him, till the local police came and arrested him.
The Vice President of the French College of the Muslim Executive of Belgium, Isabelle Praile, herself a Shiite, told the RTBF that witnesses stated, that this action was of an extremist Salafist. “The Rida Mosque, the largest Shiite mosque in Brussels, had a few years ago, been guarded by police after threats of Salafists,” said Praile. The police said that the motive of the arrested perpetrator is still unknown.
Sheik dies:
A witness saw a short man at 19:00 hours Monday set fire to the mosque founded in The Doctor More Manstraat. At that time there were a dozen people in the mosque there. That could leave the building while the fire brigade arrived on the spot. A man was slightly overcome by the smoke but had no medical care is needed.
The firefighters had the fire quickly under control, but after the fire was extinguished, the firemen on the first floor found the lifeless body of the 46-year-old sheik. That was killed in the smoke. Thanks to the witnesses the police could soon pick up a suspect.
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Many people ask what the difference is between a Shia Muslim and a Sunni Muslim. Please click more to see the difference:
Belgium Shiia Mosque bombing: Muslim leaders call into question the Salafists
The police clearly agree with Vlad Tepes. First place you check, another flavor of Muslim.
H/T WTD with thanks
Machine translation from this site in French, to the English below via google here
There is another article here:
Romandie:
BRUSSELS – Belgium Muslim representatives have questioned Monday night the Sunni Salafi movement in an arson attack that targeted a Shiite mosque in Brussels and killed its imam, asphyxiated by smoke development.
Vice President of the Muslim Executive of Belgium, Isabelle Praile itself Shiite, said the evidence given at the mosque pointed the finger action Salafi extremists.
The Islamic center Rida, who is the most important Shiite mosque in Brussels, had already been placed under police protection, some years after the Salafist threat, said Isabelle Praile.
Police said his side it was too early to speak of the tracks.
Another senior Shiite Azzedine Laghmich, working in the mosque, also said that the slogans shouted by the assailant set fire to the mosque pointing towards the Salafi movement anti-Shiite. This is a Salafi, all the testimony of those present the show, he told AFP.
He said the man entered the building and set it on fire with gasoline before trying to get out shouting slogans Salafi related to the conflict in Syria. But it was blocked by passers-by and faithful who locked him inside the mosque caught fire, before he was arrested by police.
The imam has died he tried to extinguish the fire initially with another charge of the mosque, a senior, but he did not succeed. Both were later tried to escape through the floor but only one of them could do so, said the official.
The victim was named Abdallah Dadou according to television channel RTBF Belgian public. She was 47 years.
According to the head, the mosque was laid in the past received threatening letters. He challenged the hate speech preached in some Salafi mosques in the city.
In 2007, followers of the mosque were concerned about threats from Sunni reaction to the Iraq war: some followers had reported the presence of cars loitering around the facility and even the presence of individuals who were the gesture of slitting his throat.
The burgomaster (mayor) of Anderlecht had explained that the fears of Rida were clearly within the context of Iraq.
The Sunni community is largely predominant in Brussels while the Shiites represent only a tiny fraction of Muslims in the Belgian capital. Rida mosque which was targeted Monday by arson is one of the four Shiite mosques that are included in the Brussels region.
(© AFP / March 13, 2012 1:07)