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Belgium’s Saudi-funded largest mosque is hotbed of jihad terror plotting

Nov 12, 2017 8:49 am By Robert Spencer

Servais Verherstraeten said: “We want in Belgium an Islam practiced by people who respect our constitution, who want to integrate into our country.”

Most Western leaders simply assume, without a shred of evidence that Islam is practiced in their countries by people who respect their constitution and want to integrate into our country. In all too many cases, this reckless assumption will blow up in their faces.

Has Servais Verherstraeten stopped for a moment to consider why this large mosque is teaching what Belgian officials no doubt believe is a twisted version of Islam practiced only by a tiny minority of extremists? When and how did the “fringe” become “mainstream”? Has he asked himself why Saudi Arabia, which so ostentatiously bases all its laws upon Islamic law, would back this supposedly twisted version of Islam?

Verherstraeten said. “There is the perception that there is something to hide in the most important mosque in the country.”

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad.

“The Mosque is Belgium’s biggest. Officials say it’s a hotbed for extremism,” City Today, November 11, 2017:

Prime News, International (Brussels), November 11:- The Grand Mosque of Brussels is Belgium’s biggest and oldest site of Muslim worship. Officials in Belgium say it is also a hotbed for Saudi-backed Islamist extremism.

Now the Parliament wants the country’s leaders to take over the sprawling complex that is just steps from the gleaming core of the European Union. It is the latest attempt to tighten security after radicalized Belgians emerged at the heart of terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels in the last three years….

The mosque’s leaders “are trying to live in their splendid isolation with a radical point of view, and their aim is not to integrate into our society. And that is a big problem,” said Servais Verherstraeten, one of the leaders of a Belgian parliamentary commission that recommended last month that the government break the Saudi government’s 99-year rent-free lease on the mosque. The lease was handed to Saudi King Faisal in 1969 as a goodwill gesture by Belgian King Baudouin.

“We want in Belgium an Islam practiced by people who respect our constitution, who want to integrate into our country,” Verherstraeten said. “There is the perception that there is something to hide in the most important mosque in the country.”

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  1. Buraq says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 9:14 am

    Mosques must not be allowed to proliferate. Every Mosque is modeled on the first Mosque in Medina. The Mosque, which Muhammad built before he even built his own house, was the first seminary and pulpit and where jihad military operations were planned. It was the center of both the Muslim community and of Mohamed’s new Islamic State, from where armies were sent out to conquer, from where treaties were made, from where death sentences were issued, from where the superiority of Muslims over non Muslims were first proclaimed. Mosques and Jihad have been synonymous ever since.
    The progression from migration to Mosque, from da’wa to infiltration, is doctrinal too. Following immigration comes “tamkeen”– consolidation or empowerment. This includes something called “Ta’leef al Qulub” or reconciliation of hearts, making non Muslims think favorably of Islam and Muslims, enabling Muslims to infiltrate their institutions – this includes use of deception, flattery, trickery, concealment; then comes “l’dad” or preparation – multiplying, readying for more aggressive measures. This is doctrine, not something that just happens, and like everything in Islam, is based on the example of Muhammad.

    (Adapted from an article published by Jihad Watch in 2013, but worth repeating for the unwary!)

    • Infidel says

      Nov 12, 2017 at 11:28 am

      Thanks for repeating it… Very good observation..

    • mortimer says

      Nov 12, 2017 at 11:53 am

      Thank you, Buraq. The mosque is the nest where jihad is hatched.

      Nothing good can come from a mosque if you are a KAFIR. The mosque is a hive of supremacism and the target of the mosque is the KAFIR.

      Islamic supremacism removes the human rights and civil liberties of women and kafirs.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 12, 2017 at 9:12 pm

      “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”

      ―Recep Tayyip Erdogan

    • MARCO D says

      Nov 13, 2017 at 4:50 am

      THE WORLD CAN NOT FORGET HISTORIES LESSONS- NO MOSQUES CAN BE BUILT ON GOVERNMENT LAND AND THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION PERIOD NOMORE SUBVERSSIVE PLOTTING ON GOV PROPERTY…….. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 10:26 am

    They’ve already started to close down “extremist” mosques in France:

    https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/france-shuts-four-extremist-mosques-in-paris-region/

    As there is no clear line between what is “extremist” and what isn’t, I fully expect an acceleration in mosque closures in the coming years and beyond.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 12, 2017 at 9:13 pm

      I hope so, Peter.

  3. Norger says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 10:44 am

    In other news, a bear is reported to have **** in the woods.

  4. Infidel says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 11:23 am

    I have been saying this for long.. that is , in the 1970s, the Belgian Govt did the biggest F-up when it allowed the Jehaadi Saudis to build the Grand Mosque and now this has veritably become the fountainhead of the EVIL HYDRA of Jehaadi terror. The sooner the demolish it, the better for Belgium and the Eu itself. This is where all the evil plotting begins against Westerb society in the Eu

  5. Frank Scarn says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 11:52 am

    “We want in Belgium an Islam practiced by people who respect our constitution, who want to integrate into our country.”

    Ahh, that Islam doesn’t exist. And never has.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 12, 2017 at 5:40 pm

      Verherstraeten,s statement reveals his negligence. He has failed to inform himself.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 12, 2017 at 9:16 pm

        At least he isn’t staying completely silent, as are so many dhimmis.

  6. gravenimage says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    Belgium’s Saudi-funded largest mosque is hotbed of jihad terror plotting
    …………………….

    No one should be surprised by this.

  7. rubiconcrest says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    What is the department of homeland security’s position on this important topic? Are mosques breeding centers for terrorism? Is the question even being asked by our fearless leaders? Good for Belgium. Maybe we can follow their lead.

  8. MFritz says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 1:04 am

    The same old story everywhere. Why is it so hard to understand? If you have a government solely made of hardline fundamentalist feudal lords what will they finance with their money?

    The only wise option would be to isolate them politically, finance a democratic revolution in the country AND SHUT DOWN THE MONEY FLOW.

    The same goes for Iran. The Mullahs would be LONG GONE had the Western countries financed and armed a proper democratic opposition.

    But instead “our” politicians only finance terrorist militias and war lords for the quick gain against Russia – because they seem to be more willing and “easier” to control.

  9. John Forbes says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 6:46 am

    ONCE YOU HAVE EXTENSIVE MOSQUE BUILDING YOU HAVE TO EXPECT EXTENSIVE POTTING & PLANNING TO END DEMOCRACY & ENFORCE SHARIA !
    THE MOSQUE IS A HUGE PART OF THE MULTI PRONGED ATTACKS ALONG WITH EXTENSIVE LYING & DECEPTION & THIS IS SEEN AT DIDSBURY & FINSBURY MOSQUES IN THE UK !

    ONLY HUNGARY & EASTERN EUROPE SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHILE THE WESTERN NATIONS – HAVING TOSSED THEIR FAITH AWAY – KEEP INSISTING THAT THEY CAN SOMEHOW CONVINCE THE FOLLOWERS OF MOHAMMED( PISS BE UPON HIM) DI LIKEWISE – AL THE WHILE NOT BELIEVING THAT THESE PEACEFUL CREATURES ARE POTTING DEATH & DESTRUCTION , CHILD RAPE & KILLINGS OF NON BELIEVERS !

  10. Allan Mandrowski says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    Saudi Arabia funding jihad terror world wide. More than favourite boogeyman Iran. Sunni commit 90% of terror outside the Middle East.

  11. P in America says

    Nov 13, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    Islam: The smallpox blankets of the globalists for the West.

  12. Politicianphobia says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 10:27 am

    “When the number of believers reaches three, then this faith tells them; “Now you are a community, a distinct Islamic community, distinct from the jahili society which does not live according to the belief or except its basic premise.” Now the Islamic society has come into existence (actually). These three individuals increase to ten, the ten to one hundred, the hundred to a thousand, and the thousand increase to twelve thousand–and the Islamic society grows and becomes established”. That is how it is happening worldwide, supported by politicians who say “Poor Muslims”, politicians like all the Liberals and NDP in Canada, who have supported M-103. It is time for the people of the world to fight back.

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