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Belgium: 9th Muslim arrested over Paris jihad murders, Belgian King warns against “Islamophobia”

Dec 24, 2015 12:59 pm By Robert Spencer

“We continue, unfortunately, to be marked by the dramatic attacks perpetrated in Paris, and realize the dangers that continue to weigh on us.” What kind of dangers? From what quarter? “He also appealed for tolerance, saying that a large majority of Belgians of immigrant backgrounds ‘share the values of our country,’ and that ‘they are the sons and daughters of this country.’” On what basis does he assert this? How does he know that the vast majority of Muslims in Belgium “share the values of our country,” when there is considerable evidence to the contrary?

“It seems important to me to return to the foundation of our society, to what we most wish to hold on to: our values and the rules of coexistence. This implies that we teach our children to respect different religions and philosophical convictions.” How does he plan to ensure that Muslims in Belgium teach respect for those Jews and Christians who do not convert to Islam, when the Qur’an calls them “the most vile of created beings” (98:6)?

“What they all share is the desire to give meaning to life, to respect others and to be open toward them.” To respect others? Really? The Qur’an says: “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, harsh to unbelievers” (48:29).

“Respecting these common rules also implies zero tolerance toward hate speech. It means fighting, day after day, all forms of stigmatization and segregation, and helping people who are drawn to fanatical indoctrination to resist.” When the King refers to “hate speech,” “stigmatization and segregation,” he is almost certainly not referring to the hate speech coming from jihad preachers, but to those who dare raise questions about Muslim immigration in light of jihad and Sharia supremacism. In other words, he is warning Belgians against “Islamophobia.” Belgians must ignore what they see happening all around them and be “tolerant.” But will they, in turn, be “tolerated”?

King Philippe Belgium

“Ninth Person Is Detained in Belgium Over Paris Attacks,” by Sewell Chandec, New York Times, December 24, 2015:

LONDON — The investigation into the extensive involvement of Belgians in the Paris terrorist attacks widened on Thursday with news that a 30-year-old Belgian man had been arrested on terrorism charges.

It is virtually certain that none of the Muslims who were involved in the Paris jihad massacre thought of themselves as “Belgians,” even if they had been born there and lived there all their lives.

After weeks of withering criticism of Belgium’s government, the king appealed for unity on Thursday, while also warning that there would be “zero tolerance” of extremist preachers. At least 500 Belgians are believed to be fighting alongside Islamic State militants in Iraq or Syria — the most, as a proportion of the population, of any country in the European Union.

The man facing terrorism charges, identified only as Abdoullah C., was detained on Tuesday just outside the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, where many of the attackers lived or had ties.

An investigative judge issued an arrest warrant for involvement with “terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization,” according to the federal prosecutor’s office in Brussels. Officials said they had not announced the arrest right away to avoid tipping off possible accomplices.

Abdoullah C. is the ninth man to face criminal charges in Belgium in connection with the Nov. 13 attacks, which killed 130 people.

In addition, a global manhunt continues for Salah Abdeslam, 26, a Belgian-born Frenchman believed to be the only direct participant in the attack who is still alive, and Mohamed Abrini, 30, who was seen on video driving with Mr. Abdeslam two days before the attacks.

The Paris attacks prompted intense scrutiny of ineffective and convoluted governance in Belgium, where a vast majority of the attackers had ties.

In his annual Christmas message, which was prerecorded but broadcast on Thursday, King Philippe offered exceptionally blunt remarks.

“We continue, unfortunately, to be marked by the dramatic attacks perpetrated in Paris, and realize the dangers that continue to weigh on us,” said the king, who as a constitutional monarch is required to stay above politics but who serves as the symbol of the nation.

Philippe said that Belgian authorities had “reacted with calm, speed and determination” to the terrorist threats, but he added, “The recent events proved how important it is to invest in justice, the police, the army and intelligence services.”

He also appealed for tolerance, saying that a large majority of Belgians of immigrant backgrounds “share the values of our country,” and that “they are the sons and daughters of this country.”

He continued: “It seems important to me to return to the foundation of our society, to what we most wish to hold on to: our values and the rules of coexistence. This implies that we teach our children to respect different religions and philosophical convictions. What they all share is the desire to give meaning to life, to respect others and to be open toward them. Respecting these common rules also implies zero tolerance toward hate speech. It means fighting, day after day, all forms of stigmatization and segregation, and helping people who are drawn to fanatical indoctrination to resist.”

Abdoullah C. appears to have been one of them. He is “suspected to have had several contacts” with Hasna Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, the Belgian believed to have been the chief planner of the attacks, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Ms. Aitboulahcen, Mr. Abaaoud and another man were killed on Nov. 18, when French special police units stormed an apartment in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis, not far from the stadium where three attackers blew themselves up on Nov. 13….

The other eight people facing criminal charges in Belgium are:

■ Mohamed Amri and Hamza Attou, who are accused of being Mr. Abdeslam’s getaway drivers;

■ Abraimi Lazez and Ali Oulkadi, accused of helping Mr. Abdeslam after the attacks;

■ Abdellah Chouaa, who according to the French newsmagazine Le Point is the son of a well-known radical preacher in Brussels and who is suspected of being an associate of Mr. Abdeslam’s;

■ Mohamed Bakkali, who lived at a house in the Belgian town of Auvelais that may have been used as a hide-out;

■ Two men, identified only as Samir Z. and Pierre N., who are believed to have been friends of Bilal Hadfi, one of the attackers….

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  1. Linde Barrera says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    So let me cut to the chase about what I think King Phillippe of Belgium is stating: “We all must be unified in our tolerance of Islamic terrorism.” Yeah, right. Here in NY it is Christmas Eve, the holiday we celebrate in memory of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. He brings peace through our loving actions for others. I wish you all HIS blessings.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    His Majesty — and I use that title VERY loosely — knows that his country is doomed, but he is doing what PM Churchill is supposed to have said about “an appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”.

    WHAT THE KING DESPERATELY NEEDS IS A COURT FOOL OR JESTER — those fellows who had permission, between their silly remarks, to tell the royals when they were being stupid about some important matter.

    • TH says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 5:16 am

      Belgium is an ex-country with no values. It was traditionally a Catholic and liberal monarchy, but it has given up Catholicism and with it Christian values and also what was positive in liberalism. It is barely a country as the two parts of it, are at odds and are hardly able to put together a government.

      Japan is the only sensible country when it comes to dealing with muslims. IT DOESN’T ALLOW ONE MUSLIM IN.

      • mezcukor says

        Dec 25, 2015 at 10:56 am

        I totally agree with you. And I am from Belgium. The king should go spend Christmas in Molenbek with his whole family. See how they like it there.

        • mortimer says

          Dec 26, 2015 at 10:59 am

          mez wrote: “The king should go spend Christmas in Molenbek with his whole family.”

          In total agreement. But they won’t.

          Until Western elites have a PROFOUND experience of Islam, they will not believe.

          King Philippe needs to read the Sira, the hadiths, the Koran, Islam’s classic commentaries and of course Sharia law. It’s a big reading list, but if you don’t read them, YOU DO NOT KNOW ISLAM.

  3. Peter Charles says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Well, a king, after all, is an outdated figure. Throw him in the trash, get a CONSTITUTIONAL Republic in place with a Bill of Rights, a Congress, independent Court and restart. PS, Keep any immigrants OUT until this is done or you’ll get Sharia very soon…..

    • Rob says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 2:37 am

      Yep!
      You’ll get an Obama, or worse, a Clinton.

    • TH says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 5:19 am

      You don’t seem to understand what Constitutional Monarchy is. Go and learn a bit of history.

  4. JawsV says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    The King of Belgium is an absolute idiot.

  5. Westman says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    King Philippe: “What they all share is the desire to give meaning to life, to respect others and to be open toward them.”

    How could a Monarch be so ignorant of Islam’s Ideology? For a devout Muslim, respect and openess is only allowed to fellow Muslims by Quranic command:

    “You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve; certainly evil is that which their souls have sent before for them, that Allah became displeased with them and in chastisement shall they abide.” Quran(5:80)

    “O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” Quran(5:51)

    The message is clear: respect and openess is for the Umma, the believers, only. Feigned respect is allowed if useful for personal safety:

    “Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them…” Quran(3:28)

    “Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe” Quran(8:55), “the most vile of created beings” Quran(98:6)

    “Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. ” Quran(3:110)

    Yes, King Philippe, “What they all share is the desire to give meaning to life..”, which for Islam followers means their life has meaning as “the best of peoples” while yours has zero value or meaning as the “most vile of created beings”

    That is the respect orthodox Islam has for a Monarch.

    You can continue to ignore the Islamic Supremacism in your midst or root it out. Ignoring it or engaging in delusion about Allah’s(devout Islamist) objectives will lead to ruin.

  6. GuntherL says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    To be honest: nobody takes him seriously. He’s got a nice castle though. I drive past it to work.

    • Godwin says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 5:47 pm

      He probably has too much of wine, women and songs than to bother to think of any threats to his country.

  7. VRWC member77 says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    To the dhimmi-witted COWARD Belgian king:

    Consider the elements which the political left defines as “hate speech:”

    – Drawing a distinction between one’s own identity group and those outside it
    – Moral comparison based on this distinction
    – Devaluation or dehumanization of other groups and the personal superiority of one’s own
    – The advocating of different standards of treatment based on identity group membership
    – A call to violence against members of other groups

    The KKKORAN qualifies for your “hate” speech definition on every count.

    • Rob says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 2:38 am

      Dhimmi for January.

  8. Wellington says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    Beyond clueless.

  9. Elton says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    So if the meaning to your life is your death and as many innocents as you can take with you, this is considered to be philosophical.

  10. Angemon says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    Step 1 – Read their books and listen to what their preachers say.
    Step 2 – Act accordingly.

    It’s not rocket science, you know…

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    It is unwise for a monarch to let himself sound like just another politician – there is hardly any point keeping a Royal household once they have become indistinguishable from the common evasive, calculating weakness that passes for political representation these days.

  12. Rob says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 3:23 am

    at least Queen Elizabeth didn’t wallow in this shit.
    Just said something about light defeats darkness.
    Hope she sticks it to Cameron at their weekly meetings.

  13. Sam says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 8:02 am

    All the kings seem clueless, including King Obama.

  14. duh_swami says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 9:59 am

    All Kings are an accident of birth…’Royalty; is a super ego trip…Royalty allows the idiot to retain full possession of his idiocy,,,Sort of like Islam…
    ‘The gods created royalty,,and then they laughed’…

  15. Jeff says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    He’ll be saying that right up to the moment some lunatic jihadi chops his head off.

  16. mortimer says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 10:47 am

    The king is in his own delusional world. The activists in the Mollenbeek no-go zone are no doubt planning their next jihad while laughing at the king’s advice that the country go back to sleep.

    -16% of young Muslims in Belgium state terrorism is “acceptable”.
    -according to a 2006 opinion poll, 61% of the Belgian population thought tensions between Muslims and other communities would increase in the future
    -by some estimates, Belgium has supplied the highest per capita number of fighters to Syria of any European nation – between 350 and 550, out of a total population of 11 million that includes fewer than half a million Muslims
    -Muriel Degauque, a convert from Charleroi, who died in 2005 while bombing a US convoy in Iraq, was the first European woman to launch a suicide attack
    -Molenbeek, a borough of 90,000 in the capital where some neighbourhoods are up to 80% Muslim, is seen by many as a particular problem. “In parts of Brussels, there are areas on which the police have little grip, very segregated areas that don’t feel they’re a part of the Belgian state,” said Edwin Bakker, a Dutch analyst

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….. ka-BOOM!

  17. mortimer says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 10:54 am

    Video of Muslims in Belgium celebrating Paris attacks…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET59GwQgvWE

    Muslims honks and claps in celebration of barbarous Paris Massacre (Nov 13, 2015), Brussels, Belgium, that killed 129 civilians. This should not be a surprise to anyone who remembers similar Muslim reactions to the 9/11 attack that killed 3,000 civilians.

  18. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    “He also appealed for tolerance…” one would think the unholy ko ‘ran would be teaching tolerance to people, that doesn’t seem to be the case. There are millions of dead people who suffered from acts of islamorealism.

  19. Margaret L says

    Dec 26, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    He can give himself the luxury of feeling above it all because he is–he lives high up in a palace & is surrounded by security forces wherever he goes. Thus it’s easy to pontificate to the plebes just as the leftists in the US plaster the islamophobe label on anyone with sufficient common sense to recognize the danger that’s likely lurking just about everywhere right now.

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