The recent attack by a Muslim immigrant to Belgium where he deliberately targeted children and Christmas shoppers with illegal weapons in Belgium has been nicely swept clean of all potential for accusations of Islamic influence etc.
His face book page has nothing left on it except 19 ‘friends’, most of whom are female and no reference to Islam whatsoever, or for that matter, to anything at all.
This German site claims his FB page was entirely filled with Jihadist material and Islamic ‘extremist’ lectures and images. Yet it would appear that the powers-that-be in Belgium managed to scrub it clean before the act of terror was even done.
I wonder who does more damage to the people of a democratic society. A jihadi who shoots up people at a mall during Christmas shopping season or a government that works overtime to make sure it’s own citizens are lied to about the facts in order to maintain a narrative. A narrative that may in fact spell the undoing of Western liberal democracy altogether.
Here is a google-machine-translation of a German website that seems to have something that resembles actual information on this issue.
Any German speakers who wish to properly translate this page would be deeply appreciated.
Eeyore for Vlad.
UPDATE:
A reader of Vlad was kind enough (Thank you very much Rembrandt C) to properly translate the German article on the Belgian attack.
Rembrandt Clancy says:
December 17, 2011 at 12:42 am (Edit)
Here is the translation from the German of an article from “Die Achse des Guten” which you requested above: http://www.achgut.com/dadgdx/index.php/dadgd/article/der_diskrete_charme_der_berichterstattung/.
Rembrandt Clancy
From: Die Achse
Guest Author 14 December 2011
The Discrete Charm of News Reporting
Manfred Gillner
Whenever, on the occasion of a crime report, the comment areas of the leading online-media, after a brief and seemly interval, are closed or simply not even opened, then one knows that now something has happened again which for the guardians of political correctness is very much amiss. Just so did it also happen after the terror attack in Liège. For it must be declared as such, when someone in camouflage fatigues, armed with grenades, revolver and Kalashnikov gets into a car, drives to the Liège Christmas market, climbs to the roof of a bakery and cuts down anything he can catch sight of. The gunman knew exactly what he wanted, said a female Journalist, who, as witness, experienced the entire incident. He intended to hit as many people as possible. Continue Reading →