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October 25, 2007

Belgium: Turks Riot, Kurds Attacked, 100 Arrested

News from the Brussels Journal and AFP via Expatica:

Earlier this year, on Tuesday September 11 dozens of members of SIOE (Stop the islamisation of Europe) and others from the Vlaams Belang party were arrested for staging a 9/11 anniversary protest against the growth of and support of radical Islam throughout Europe. The rally had been declared illegal, although 200 people had turned up on two squares in the EU district of Europe. Police were in force, and Frank Vanhecke and Filip Dewinter of the Vlaams Belang party were arrested. Brussels' mayor, Freddy Thielemans, had banned the planned rally a month earlier, claiming that an anti-Islamic event could provoke unrest amongst Belgium Muslims.

Thielemans, the politically correct mayor of Brussels caved in to fear of violence from the Muslim community. Now that violence has erupted, but the causes of unrest are political, rather than Islamofascist outrage. Recently Turkey has been threatening to launch attacks against northern Iraq. The reason has been a recent upsurge of violent attacks in the southeast of Turkey made by the Kurdish separatist terror group - the PKK. The terrorists have established bases across the Turkish border, where they are hiding and have been under protection of local Kurds.

Yesterday, Turkey apparently launched air strikes across the border into northern Iraq. The strikes against supposed PKK bases have apparently caused the deaths of dozens. The issue of the PKK terrorists hiding in northern Iraq has threatened the stability of the region. Iraq has made an offer of taking "practical steps and measures... to pacify, isolate and disrupt PKK activities." Syria will mediate between Iraq and Turkey. Last week, Turkey's parliament voted to approve strikes 30 miles into Iraqi territory where the PKK bases are held. The strikes have caused a refugee situation in Iraq.

The violence by the PKK has caused Turks to have intense resentment against the Kurdish group. There were marches in Turkey on Monday October 22 after 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in a PKK attack on Sunday. On Monday, a joint statement was released by U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Britain's foreign and commonwealth affairs secretary David Miliband, condemning Sunday's PKK attack.

Yesterday in Freddy Thielemans pro-Islamist Brussels, violence erupted in the evening, with Turks attacking buses, cars, trains and shops. In a re-run of Ottoman bigotry, on Sunday night in the district of Sint-Joost, a bar owned by Armenian Peter Petrossian was attacked. On Monday, a cafe belonging to an Iraqi Kurd was ransacked by Turkish nationalists. On Wednesday, Turkish youths began to attack Kurdish shops in Brussels. Similar demonstrations by Turks took place in Antwerp.

The rioting on Wednesday caused 10 police officers to be injured. The violence followed a demonstration by 800 people against Kurds which turned violent. Three people in a car attempted to ram a police vehicle, injuring the three occupants, and have been charged with attempted murder. Many of those who attended the earlier demonstration wore masks, and in the unrest police officers were pelted with stones. 100 arrests were made. By late Wednesday night, the violence seemed to have subsided.

David Jansen, Brussels' police chief, said: "There was a lot of rough physical contact, garbage bins were set on fire and cars damaged." Most of the violence happened in Sint-Joost (Saint-Josse) and Schaerbeek districts, which are generally referred to as "Little Turkey".

Mayor of Sint-Joost Mohammed Jabour said that "people are very worried about what is happening (in northern Iraq), but this has nothing to do with the situation here. This is a very serious development for (the immigrants') integration."

Integration? If the individuals who are rioting are Turkish "nationalists", then why are they in Europe?

Maybe this will wake up the politically correct and appeasing mayor of Brussels to the divisions and strife that his policies in support of "multiculturalism" actually promote.

And for those in Europe who wish to see Turkey as another member of the European Union, look forward to more similar scenes in more cities in the future.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 25, 2007 5:46 PM

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