The broken Belgium is Europe's breeding nest for terror
Belgium is Europe's Salafist headquarter, and especially in Brussels, the Islamists are well organized, having the assassins of Paris been outfitted here.
Rue Delaunoy in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, on Monday afternoon, the 16th of November 2015. Around 40 heavily armed and masked policemen in protective suits position themselves in front of a gray, narrow house, and on the rooftops surrounding them are snipers. Twice explosions can be heard, whilst three policemen penetrate into a house at 13.40 clock. In the building, very close to the Brussels canal, the wanted Salah Abdeslam is suspected to hide, a suspected assassin of Paris. In the end, the currently most wanted man in Europe is not found.
Belgium is a small and torn country within the EU. It is composed of around 19 districts and a capital that is bi-lingual, French and Dutch; the entire country is split into the Valones and Flemish. The un-united situation and its problems I was able to witness myself when living in Belgium from 1977 till 1981. Cases of Dutch speaking calling the fire service which just spoke french is just one example of its internal failure. Belgium is a high immigration rate from Moroccan Muslims, and they are dominating some parts of Brussels already. The biggest mosque, Mosquée du Cinquantenaire, is in the Rue Dalaunoy in Molembeek-Saint-Jean. The mosque, after a long reconstruction carried out at the expense of Saudi Arabia by Tunisian architect Boubaker, was inaugurated in 1978 in the presence of Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz and Baudouin. The Mosque's role the leading religious institution within the Belgian Islamic community, as well as its intended role as diplomatic bridge between the Saudi and Belgian monarchies, has been a point of debate since its re-foundation. Molembeek houses 25.5 % Moroccan Muslims and 2.4% Turkish Muslims; a sign of completely failed immigration policy.
The French daily "Libération" called the Brussels mosque, therefore even "the semi-official representative of Islam in Belgium".
The Belgian politicians stand in front of a result of their inaction. Not only was it, probably out of typical laxity and internal disunity, an outcome of the non execution of the announced police reforms, but the Belgian intelligence service apparently does not even have sufficient staff who speak Arabic. Effective monitoring is therefore characterized as virtually impossible. Minister of Justice Koen Geens admitted, that only now, since the beginning of the year, new forces are being trained and adjusted.
It is hence not a coincidence, that the attackers from Paris, either coming from Syria or from France, assembled in Belgium to plan the terror. Government and law enforcement seemed to have looked away from this danger. In Belgium roughly 500 people went to Syria to fight there, and that is more per head compared to any other country in Europe. Apart from the aggressive group "Sharia for Belgium", which calls from out Antwerp for total veiling of women and is against democratic elections, especially the Islamist immigrants scene in Brussels Molenbeek is well organized; well in a negative sense of expression.
As a key figure and the possible "brain" of the massacres of Paris, it is now clear that this is the native Molenbeeker Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who in 2011 was was already flagged, together with the killed assassin in Paris Brahim Abdeslam by the police of Brussels. Abdeslams third brother who works in the municipality of Molenbeek, was initially also arrested, but has since been released as not involved.
Abaaoud himself probably escaped to Syria in January 2015, after the alleged organized terrorist cell in Verviers was busted. Since Abaaoud disappeared without a trace, two other acts of terrorism were recently organized from Belgium. The Frenchman, who in May 2014 killed four people in the Brussels Jewish Museum was accommodated on Molembeek before his deed. And the overwhelmed Thalys train bombers boarded in late August 2015 in Brussels the train to Paris. This striking coincidence can no longer be overlooked.
Therefore, the opposition leader of the right-wing Flemish Alliance is demanding the de-legitimization of the Belgian kingdom, as it is outdated and ineffective, and should be replaced by a Flemish republic.
Bart De Wever, mayor of Antwerp, now demands to abolish the superfluous Belgian Senate, the second chamber of the central parliament, and then to invest the money immediately in the ailing security apparatus.
Belgium may need to take even further steps to de-radicalize their Islamic sub communities and strengthen their identity and democracy, national security and entire state.
By Thomas Fleckner
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