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From Expatica, with thanks to Sr. Soph.
BRUSSELS — Three Belgian coastal municipalities are moving to ban Muslim women from wearing a burka. The municipalities of De Panne, Koksijde and Nieuwpoort have drawn up a proposal that will be presented to town councils in the near future.The proposal was drawn up on request from the police and will be part of a general ban on disguises.
The ban comes after several incidents in which residents raised alarm during end-of-school celebrations. Some youths had dressed up as gangsters.
The chief of the West Coast police zone, Johan Geeraert, said local officers had also complained about the Islamic burka.
He said police often encounter women dressed dressed in a burka, especially near tobacco shops in Adinkerke. The wearing of a burka makes it difficult for the women to be inspected.
"We want to give our police officers legal certainty with the new regulation. Everyone must be recognisable," Geeraert said...The three coastal municipalities are not the first to impose a ban on the burka...
It's heartening to witness good and basic sense among the common people, however, I wonder if these local regulations won't soon come under greater scrutiny and mounting legal challenges as time goes on.
Posted by Rebecca at February 16, 2006 4:30 PM
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wonder if they should have signs with an x through the burka on street signs. make sure the burka does not look like muhammud
Posted by: Lulu
at February 16, 2006 6:10 PM
By breeding, birth, and inculcation all Moslems are security risks. So this makes sense. Hugh Hewitt and his Moslem U.S. Army soldiers and Marines notwithstanding, of course.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at February 16, 2006 6:17 PM
While I think banning the burka is a good step, it cannot be the only step taken.
For many muslim women, wearing the burka is a neccesity. Without it, their husbands will not let them leave the house.
If they're going to ban the burka, they will have to make sure that muslim women are not locked up inside by sending social workers and such to check up on them and their family from time to time, and perhaps give their husband a stern warning if they sense anything fishy going on.
Posted by: Todd
at February 16, 2006 7:07 PM
Unless you are living in parts of Australia where the police have been told to "not interfere" when dealing with calls to Muslim domestic disputes.
Posted by: brian_smaller
at February 16, 2006 7:30 PM
Ap/Reuters/BBC:
'Three Belgian towns are reportedly on fire as innocent, immigrant youths lawfully protest a racist law meant to keep them from exercising their Allah-given right to not be easily identified.
"We have a right to insidiously commandeer these Flemish towns and institute sharia" said one of the innocent, law abiding protestors. "The chalk-faces hate us simply because we call their women whores and burn down their liquor stores. But that is our culture and they fail to recognize that! PIGS!"
Worldwide protests are planned in support of these brave, young freedom fighters.'
Posted by: Dead Infidel Walking
at February 16, 2006 7:32 PM
The Dutch and Flemish laid down like sissies when the Nazis rolled in, so why should we be surprised at their reaction when confronted by a truly formidable political ideology like the Islam?
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at February 16, 2006 8:47 PM
wonder if the police will go and shoot the bastards down.... they got to round them up and send them out!
Posted by: Lulu
at February 16, 2006 8:49 PM
What if the broadcasts of Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya and Al-Manar, with their pictures of Infidel decaptitations and similar blood-and-gore family viewing, were constantly fooled with by those who had superior technology and knowhow, so that all sorts of unseemly images, the kind of thing Muslim menfolk would not wish their women to see, would suddently appear on the screen in the midst, say, of some program about how the American soldiers in Iraq are "worse than the Nazis" and "almost as bad as the Israelis." Might be a way to cut down on family viewing of Al-Jazeera in the Western world. And anyone living in the Western world who receives his information, and worldview, from Al-Jazeera, is -- given what that and similar networks present -- very likely a security threat, that is a threat to the Infidel nation-state in which that viewer may have settled, but purely in the most narrrowly geographic of senses; in all other ways, that person may never have left the Muslim Middle East.
Posted by: Hugh
at February 16, 2006 9:29 PM
What if the broadcasts of Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya and Al-Manar, with their pictures of Infidel decaptitations and similar blood-and-gore family viewing, were constantly fooled with by those who had superior technology and knowhow, so that all sorts of unseemly images, the kind of thing Muslim menfolk would not wish their women to see, Posted by Hugh
That would be such a shame, wouldn't it? With their own private Islamic enclaves, furnished with all of life's necessities; mosques, shops, schools, etc., they are in a virtual fifth dimension. No need to ever leave except to collect jizya (welfare, medicare, food stamps). Jihad TV is on 24/7; life is as good as it can get before the return of the Caliphate. And such interference is quite common on cable and satellite tv. I have experienced some strange crossed signals myself on occasion. While I was innocently watching a decadent, satanic Hollywood movie, images of naked couples suddenly appeared out of nowhere and just took over my television set!
If this happened to the viewers of al-Jazerra, they would probably just send the women to the back of the house and enjoy the show. Porn is not my cup of tea, but it beats jihad 101, lessons on decapitation, martyrdom miniseries, anti-American propaganda, and revisionist history for muslim zombies.
Posted by: Susanp
at February 16, 2006 10:24 PM
Alarmed Pig Farmer-
The Dutch (and Belgians), in 1940, like the also greatly-outgunned Poles (almost a year earlier), bravely fought the invading hordes of mechanized Nazis, with inadequate WW I era armaments, for about two weeks. They capitulated, ultimately, instead of choosing to be annihilated -after the "educational" blitzkrieg of Stukas dive bombing Rotterdam to flaming ruins and blood-soaked dust. A warcrime/lesson given by Goering and Hitler as a demonstration of the futility of further armed resistence. The Hollanders immediately began an underground resistence and aided the allies in the free air corps, as spies, and soliders in several allied armies and navies.
Their folly was not keeping up with the German re-armament, The French, English and Americans were equally delusional. Every nation was caught with their camouflage pants down.
We all paid for it.
We all fought against it.
Unity is needed even more, now.
Posted by: profitsbeard
at February 16, 2006 11:26 PM
profitsbeard, I know all that.
Yet, my father told me that when his 101st Airborne unit rolled into Holland as part of ill-conceived Market Garden operation, a bloody mess if there ever was one, he never saw a Ducthman fire a shot or lift a finger.
There are always excuses to not fight. This is the Moslem's ace-in-the-hole. Cowardice.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at February 16, 2006 11:49 PM
New Mohammad cartoon published in a newspaper in Portugal
http://www.islamophobic.blogspot.com
Also,a muslim group in NY City warns America:
"Your days are numbered",while the NYPD watched and did nothing...
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
at February 17, 2006 12:20 AM
"The Dutch and Flemish laid down like sissies when the Nazis rolled in, so why should we be surprised at their reaction when confronted by a truly formidable political ideology like the Islam?
"
Aww, come on. The only time the enemy betreaded your own frontiers was on 9/11, and since then you shitted your pants since no UK/US newspapers dared to publish the false prophet cartoons, unlike some European newspapers.
Your PKB is easy since you're far away from your enemy. Thanks for the support anyway, CAIR- dhimmy!
at February 17, 2006 12:22 AM
@Alarmed Pig Farmer
Coward. Color yourself in yellow.
at February 17, 2006 12:25 AM
@Alarmed Pig Farmer
I hope your name isn't Pickton, coward.
at February 17, 2006 12:30 AM
@Alarmed Pig Farmer
Google on Pickton, coward, and know yourself.
at February 17, 2006 12:50 AM
- these flemish cities weren't the first to instaur such a ban. another city already did the same. the burka-wearing clowns later were suspected to be members of a terrorist association
- regarding resistance in ww2. resistance in belgium mainly concentrated on logistics, and saving jew and allied pilots. indeed, not many armed actions, but we can wonder if those armed actions were very useful, regarding the reprisals...
at February 17, 2006 6:25 AM
You've got me, kuffar. As penance, I'll spend the day reading through my 3-foot high stack of reports of selfless courage streaming in from current day Holland and Flanders.
Meet the new Euro. Same as the old Euro.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at February 17, 2006 7:55 AM
Don't take Alarmed Pig Farmer too seriously, he's an alarmist small minded Europhobe, if you followed his postings he is primarily at this webiste to vent his spleen against Europeans. And he's as dull as ditchwater.
People who visit this site come from a variety of backgrounds and usually park their ethnic differences at the doorstep in the knowledge that whatever our beefs with each other we share a common cause in maintaining our individuality against Islam. Pig Farmer wouldn't be able to locate Belgium on a map. 'Cept his old man was supposedly there in '44. Way to go, Pig. Talk about taking credit for someone else's courage.
Greetings! to our comrades in the Low countries, and elsewhere in Europe, and the non Muslim minorities in Asia and Africa, who unlike the unremarkable PigFarmer are living in the frontline of this sad conflict.
Posted by: melbourneman
at February 17, 2006 10:04 AM
Pig Farmer wouldn't be able to locate Belgium on a map.
Uh, I've been to Belgium, oh, I dunno, maybe 30 times or so. My ex-father-in-law has an estate in Limont-Anthisnes, in the Ardennes to the southwest of Liege, in Wallonie.
It was always interesting talking to the locals. They built many private shirines in the forest commemorating the American soliders who saved them. The inscriptions on them often even mention the US Army units who went down on this or that property. These same old timers also denounced their governments, then and now.
Attack me all you want, but the results are in on the Europeans. With the EAD they have consigned themselves to the status of a fait accompli nascent Islamic Republic.
t is a fool's errand to look to Europe for an ally in the War on Islam, cuz all you're gonna find there is a whole lotta quit. Been that way ever since WWI.
Europe will show no fight until such time that the Moslem leadership finally begins taking leadership positions within the EU member states.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at February 17, 2006 12:03 PM
@melbourneman.
Thanks for showing that there still are sensible persons on this blog. I think I should have ignored this redneck (what I will do from now on), not that I will miss much of an intellectual contribution.
at February 17, 2006 12:19 PM
Show me European resolve. Is it in Iraq? The EU offices in Brussels, maybe? Where is it?
There are many fine individual Europeans, but overall, the continent never recovered from WWI. That's whey they don't even bother to breed anymore. Lost interest.
Maye brave Euro Man is out riding that Unicorn around, for he is nearly as elusive.
Admit it. Europe is broken, has been for a long time, and ain't coming back. Too much quit.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at February 17, 2006 12:26 PM
Hey the West tried to pretend the Nazis didnt exist for awhile... until it started losing some of its prize cities to them... Islam will be the same... when a western city falls to this global cancer the poo will hit the fan... then we might realise we have to fight ... but my my question is will it be too late? Their immigrants have already infiltrated every western nation with the goal of 'populate to extinguish the infidel' while we abort our children happily (thanks you murderous radical feminists) wake up PEOPLE!! remember WHO YOU ARE!
Posted by: CrusadoRob
at February 17, 2006 7:51 PM


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