Like most EU countries, Belgium has experienced an immigration crisis, with migrants coming mainly from Africa and the Middle East. The EU is saturated with economic migrants that it simply cannot sustain. It now faces instability and a danger to security that will become more manifest with time.
In mid-October, Muslim migrant Abdesalem Lassoued murdered two Swedish football fans as he hollered “Allahu akbar, I am a fighter for Allah.” The jihadi had been wanted on an extradition demand by Tunisia since mid-August, but the case fell through the cracks. Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne called it “an unacceptable error. An error with dramatic consequences”; then he resigned. But his resignation has little meaning in a country that refuses to apply a much-needed zero tolerance policy on illegal migrants and on those challenging the country’s laws and values. As Justice Minister, Van Quickenborne should have helped confront and clean up the mess. In August, Muslim migrants forced a Belgian boy to kiss their feet, then punched and kicked him in the head. Meanwhile, recently Denmark and Sweden considered banning Qur’an-burning protests to appease Islamic supremacists.
The West is at war with those who blatantly reject its values, undermine the social order, and seek to dominate and subjugate the West under Sharia tenets. Western denial only serves to embolden the jihad against it, and buys more time for jihadis to fulfill their missions as they cast fear and terror into the hearts of disbelievers (Quran 8:12).
Van Quickenborne’s quitting was a cop-out. It merely satisfied his own guilt and relieved him of the stress that is to come. It did nothing to correct a pattern of laxity that has become commonplace in Western countries when it comes to confronting the jihad that is being waged from within, in both stealthy and violent ways. Ignoring this will only continue to allow it to grow unchecked.
“Belgium’s justice minister resigns after Brussels terror attack,” Guardian, October 20, 2023:
Belgium’s justice minister has resigned after it emerged that the Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes in Brussels this week had been denied asylum and was sought for extradition by Tunisia.
Justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said late on Friday that he and other officials had been searching for details to understand how Abdesalem Lassoued had disappeared off the map two years ago after being denied asylum.
“This morning at nine o’clock, I remarked the following elements: on 15 August, 2022, there was an extradition demand by Tunisia for this man,” Van Quickenborne told reporters.
“This demand was transmitted on 1 September, as it should have been, by the justice expert at the Brussels prosecutor’s office. The magistrate in charge did not follow up on this extradition demand and the dossier was not acted upon,” he said.
“It’s an individual error. A monumental error. An unacceptable error. An error with dramatic consequences,” Van Quickenborne said in announcing that he had submitted his resignation to prime minister Alexander De Croo.
“I am not looking for any excuses. I think it’s my duty,” to resign, he said. “This new information coming from the prosecutors hits me deeply as I have done everything possible to improve the judicial system.”
On Monday night, Lassoued shot dead two Swedish men and wounded a third man with a semiautomatic rifle. The attack forced the lockdown of more than 35,000 people in a football stadium where they had gathered to watch Belgium play Sweden.
The 45-year-old attacker was fatally shot in a police operation on Tuesday.
Official documents showed Lassoued had lodged asylum applications in Norway, Sweden, Italy and Belgium……
Woody the Wouldpecker says
Off hand it would appear that this guy Van Quickenborne is off his rockers, if you ask me. It was the decision of a judge, I understand, a magistrate:
“This demand was transmitted on 1 September, as it should have been, by the justice expert at the Brussels prosecutor’s office. The magistrate in charge did not follow up on this extradition demand and the dossier was not acted upon,” he said.
So why does Van Quickenborne resign, if it was not his fault? What’s going on?
CommonSenseChris says
He probably resigned because that’s easier than admitting that they have a problem with the Islamic Believers who have infiltrated their country. If he had tried to address the issue and get rid of violent people who believe that they should kill Unbelievers… he would be accused of (horrors!) being Islamophobic. They are more concerned with being accused of Islamophobia than the lives of their own people, and the survival of their society and culture.
Eva says
‘A dramatic error’???
Is that all it was to you?
It was a crime that left two people dead.
Try a ‘two needless deaths, a tragedy that could have been wholly avoided if I hadn’t been such a damn coward and a useless minister’.
Bexarkat says
I wish the Biden administration had that much integrity and resign!
James Lincoln says
I think that the fact that Belgium’s Justice Minister resigned is better than him doing nothing.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas should start the ball rolling – and do the same.