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Belgium: Two Islamic State jihad cell members arrested for planning Christmas holiday attacks

Dec 30, 2015 9:17 pm By Robert Spencer

The Belgian King’s impassioned plea to Belgians to eschew “Islamophobia” appears to have failed, and the poor dears, having been “provoked” and “poked in the eye” beyond endurance, are lashing out with jihad mass murder attacks.

Brussels-Belgium police

“‘Isis terror cell’: Two members arrested in Belgium on suspicion of planning Christmas holiday attacks,” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, December 29, 2015:

Two suspected members of an Isis cell have been arrested on suspicion of planning terror attacks in Belgium over the Christmas holidays.

Military-style uniforms, computer equipment and Isis propaganda was found during police raids in Brussels and the Flemish Brabant and Liege regions.

A spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s office said the searches on Sunday and Monday had revealed “the threat of serious attacks that would have targeted several symbolic places in Brussels and be committed during the end-of-year holidays”.

One of the suspects is charged with acting as the leader and recruiter for the terror cell and the other with participating in a terrorist group’s activities as a principal actor or co-actor.

The prosecutors’ office said they were among six people initially detained for questioning but the rest have since been released.

All seized items are currently being investigated but no weapons or explosives have been found.

Belgian newspapers reported that the two suspects may have been planning to attack police, saying “concrete threats” had been made to officers near the Grand Palace in Brussels….

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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    Muslims have all the provocation they need in the Koran which is the political manual of jihad, in the Sira which is the strategic manual of jihad and in the Hadiths which form the tactical manual of jihad.

    Jihad is formalized in Sharia law’s chapters on ‘jihad’. They are the legal manual of JIHAD.

    Islamic preachers of jihad have VOLUMINOUS texts from which to preach that JIHAD is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    Islam is a Dark-Ages Death Cult. It does not mix with modernity…any more than oil and water.

    Islam is irreconcilable with modernity. Islam has no mechanism for reforming its Dark-Ages mentality. A billion Muslims are stuck in a pre-Enlightenment prison with no hope of escape.

  2. David M says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:59 am

    They have called off their New Years Even fireworks display in Brussels due to threats of a Muslim terrorist attack. I’d call that a sign of defeat due to a total failure of their multicultural policy. How could you interpret in any other way? Are they going to change their policy? Probably not.

    • GuntherL says

      Dec 31, 2015 at 4:10 am

      We have a outdoors concert though. It’s not that there no fun left.

      Hmmm… I guess we have no money left for fireworks. There isn’t much to celebrate anyway. Jihadists, 30000 new ‘refugees’, failing nuclear power plants, a mad woman in a neighboring country. I don’t think we need terrorists to blow this country up.
      From next week, traffic jams will be so bad that Jihadists can’t park their bomb trucks anyway, so we can feel safe again.

  3. Frank says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 4:19 am

    As a journalist said on TV just a few days ago:
    “In Belgium, anything is possible”.

    Would you believe:
    6 different governments
    58 ministers/secretaries
    6 police zones in Brussels
    Department of Justice: just leaving the Late Middle Ages – in the process of discovering that computers exist
    More civil “servants” (I’m always wondering who the hell they are serving except their own little interests) than productive workers. IQ higher than 70 not allowed.
    Three languages
    It’s all that complicated that nobody cares anymore (you need a Nobel Prize mind to simply get it).

    Any wonder then that muslim fanatics and the riffraff of Europe want to hold court in Belgium.

    Belgium: Absurdistan. (by the way: this is an existing book).

    • Gea says

      Dec 31, 2015 at 5:06 pm

      I was in Brussels on October 13, 2015 and as the plane was late, I was at the airport where I was not able to make a hotel reservation over Internet. The airport was a dump and I took a train to the central train station to leave my luggage and see a bit of night Brussels.

      Unfortunately I was not able to find a hotel as all hotels had a sign that rooms are all rented out….which I doubt was true, but people are scared of Musiim terrorists as Muslims now comprise 30% of the Brussels’s [population. I then went back to central train station thinking to take the early morning train to Aachen on the German border. Unfortunately, the main train station is closed from 2-4 am and so I had to leave…and experience night Brussels, which was an adventure…it was cold but beautiful with nobody around. Around 3 am I found a small souvenir shop open and bought some stuff…there was some bar open too, but people were loud and rowdy…I walked on and about 3:30 am found a little falafel and kebab place open till 5:30 am…

      The follow running this joint was a very friendly Iranian, doing his MSc in aeronautical engineering, who planned to return to Iran…he told me that Iran was under a very back management and we exchanged e-mails…I told him that when the management of Iran changes I will visit him… I was in Iran in 10969 when it was under shah but the socialist students we met in Tehran were bitching about shah and wanted a change, which they got in 1979 with ayatollah Komeini who murdered thousands of those leftist students after shah had to escape, under the pressure of stupid Jimmy Carter…

      Under Islam the choice is like under other oppressive totalitarian supremacist and imperialistic regimes…they stay till they are dead either naturally or by violence…that is the nature of islam ITSELF< which is worse than Nazism Communism and Fascism, as many EX-Muslims had told us.
      …

  4. the renegade says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 5:07 am

    Latest update ~ now brussels is cancelling all public fireworks and new year celebrations.

    Muslims love to hate happiness and things that bring joy….

    Happy new year to all… be safe.

  5. wildjew says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 7:15 am

    OT: British Gov’t Responds to Petition to Ban Trump: ‘Coming to the UK Is a Privilege…’

    by Josh Feldman | 5:21 pm, December 30th, 2015

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/british-govt-responds-to-petition-to-ban-trump-coming-to-the-uk-is-a-privilege/

    Will the British government blink?

    • DFD says

      Dec 31, 2015 at 12:17 pm

      Hi Wildjew,

      It’s not all bad news for Britain, read this,
      and best wishes for the new year ———–:

      SUICIDE BOMBERS on STRIKE!

      Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with ISIS management have so far failed to produce an agreement.

      The unrest began last Tuesday, when ISIS announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death, will be cut by 25% next January from 72 to only 60. The rationale for the cut was the severe increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings, and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.

      The suicide bombers’ union, the British Organisation of Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members, and immediately balloted for strike action. General secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, “Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of jihad. We don’t ask for much in return, but to be treated like this by the management is a kick in the teeth.”

      Mr. Amir accepted the limited availability of virgins, but pointed out that the cutbacks were expected to be borne entirely by the workforce and not by management. “Last Christmas Abu Hamza alone was awarded an annual bonus of 250,000 virgins,” complains Mr. Amir. “And you can be sure they’ll all be pretty ones too. How can ISIS afford that for the members of the management, but not 72 for the people who do the real work?”

      Speaking from the shed in the West Midlands where he currently hides and resides, the ISIS-UK chief executive Al Damascusi-Aleppo explained,

      “We sympathise with our workers’ concerns, but ISIS is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day jihad, in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It’s a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don’t like cutting wages but I’d hate to have to tell 3,000 of my staff that they won’t be able to blow themselves up.” He defended management bonuses by claiming these were necessary to attract good, fanatical, clerics. “How am I supposed to attract the best people, if I can’t compete with the private sector?” asked Mr. Al Damascusi-Aleppo.

      Talks broke down this morning, after management’s last-ditch proposal for a virgin-sharing scheme was rejected outright, after a failure to agree on orifice allocation quotas. One virgin, who refused to be named, was quoted as saying “I’ll be buggered if I’m agreeing to anything like that……..it’s too much of a mouthful to swallow”.

      Unless some sort of agreement is reached over the weekend, suicide bombers will down explosives at midday on Monday. Most branches are supporting the strike. Only the North London branch, which has a different union, is likely to continue working. However, some members of that branch will only be using waist-down explosives, in order to express solidarity with their striking brethren.

  6. Tom from Brussels says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 10:32 am

    Six more have just been arrested.

  7. Baucent says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 10:41 am

    In Belgium the Jihadi chickens are coming home to roost. Belgium has the highest number of ISIS recruits fighting in Syria, per capita. Many are now returning to spread the mayhem to the land of bureaucrats and chocolate. For years they have allowed muslim majority ghettos to flourish that have become hot beds of Islamism. Rather belatedly the authorities are waking up to the danger.

  8. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 11:06 am

    Funny enough, the local Arabic language paper mentioned this morning that Turkey also busted two IS members plotting suicide attacks on New Year’s Eve in Istanbul. Not as though my heart bleeds for Turkey in any way shape nor form, but still.

    The uniformity with which the religion of peace is always misunderstood is remarkable.

  9. Mark A says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    More misguided people who have misunderstood and misinterpreted Islam, which, as we have been repeatedly assured by our elected leaders, is a “religion of peace.”

  10. g says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    its not islamaphobia if its true

  11. Angemon says

    Jan 4, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Belgian newspapers reported that the two suspects may have been planning to attack police

    I wonder if that was the deciding factor between “go get them now” and “we probably need more evidence”?

  12. multatula says

    Jan 7, 2016 at 11:23 pm

    i am a belgian citizen,and the problem for us, also for our police is .this, i i give you an example, when a jeweler has to give ,in his shop all of his things to armed bandids he cannot defend his gold,money and the man protecting his income is prosecuted bij our legal system…there are shopkeepers, shooting and hurtiing intruders,have been prosecuted bij magistrats, many jewelers. ..have to Stop their business ,because after they shot a thief to protect his life and the life of his family,after being
    assaulted MANY TIMES,,!,the thief get a pension from the governement,the jeweler has to pay for the criminal …THIS IS WHY PEOPLE NOT HELP OTHERS. IF WE HELP A VICTIM IN THE STREET,THE BANDIT IS HURT,, WE HAVE TO PAY FOR HIM,,!!!

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