 [CBSNEWS] Days after the deadly Brussels attacks, which killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station, right-wing demonstrators appeared at a memorial to denounce the country's Muslim community. A week later, police had to intervene when similar right-wing protesters squared off against anti-racism demonstrators. The confrontations underscore an important, though perhaps uncomfortable, question: to what extent does Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
contribute to the atmosphere of isolation that breeds violent radicals?
| The more important question, and one that CBS News, the experts, and the nomenklatura will refuse to address, is: to what extent have their own preconceptions and ideologies contribute to the atmosphere of distrust and hatred? Some questions, you see, aren't allowed to be asked, let alone answered... |
"When you have no life objectives, no long-term objectives, you try to find your quest for self elsewhere," explains Tewfik Sahih, a lifelong resident of Schaerbeek, Brussels, the neighborhood in which the bombs used in the Gay Paree and Brussels attacks were made. "Many people feel discriminated [against] here. Some citizens here don't feel part of the national community."
There is no 'national community' of Belgium. There's a Walloon community, a Flemish community, a small German community, and an Islamic community. None of these communities really get along, which is why you barely have a government, let alone a country.
Further, the Islamic community doesn't consider itself to be 'Belgian', and moreso doesn't want to be. They don't want to be Belgian, they want Belgium to be Islamic. |
Experts
| ...and what would we do without experts... |
tell CBSN that many of Belgium's disenfranchised Muslims feel more loyalty to their nuclear communities than their country.
Like I was just saying. Their Islamic community offers them what is most important to them -- social structure, belonging, belief and future.
It's like asking "What's wrong with Kansas" without realizing that the people of Kansas are asking, "what's wrong with you?" This article is a clear demonstration of the cluelessness of the 'experts'. |
So, even if they don't necessarily agree with how certain members of their neighborhood or mosque choose to lash out, they might not be inclined to report those people to the authorities either.
"The mafia protects itself. Hooligans with soccer clubs don't betray themselves as well. It's very much a group mentality where you don't betray," explains Michael Privot, director of the European Network Against Racism. "The Muslim community feels really under siege. They are victims themselves of hate crimes.
| There have been precious few 'hate crimes' against the community. The recent colonists were welcomed with open arms, social workers, aid, housing, and political cover. The large abundance of 'hate crimes' are the ones committed against European women, though it's impolite to call them 'hate' crimes. |
So, if you want to really help them make the change from within ... you have to give them breathing space ... open space for them to build a future."
| The colonists will take your breathing space, and then they'll take your country. It's sorta how it works with colonialism... |
As it currently stands, most Moroccan and Turkish immigrants colonists live in what is known as the "poor croissant" of Brussels. And the conditions in those neighborhoods offer little hope for social or economic success.
"In Molenbeek, one young person of Moroccan background out of two is unemployed. One family of Moroccan origin [out of two] is below the poverty line. You see, it's dire," says Privot. "Schools are ghettoized. ... You have a whole generation of youngsters, aged 15 to 25, that have no skills because they didn't receive proper support. Not from parents and not from the state. Those young guys are living in Brussels, which is one of the most competitive cities [in the world], but without skills to find a job in their own city."
| The reason is simple and yet incomprehensible to the EU nomenklatura: the students and their parents realize that the schools would turn them into infidels. That is something that the immigrants, whether just off the raft or 2nd generation, will never accept. Therefore they won't accept the schools. |
The actions of the few then spawn a vicious cycle for the many, according to Privot.
| Yes, it's the rejection by the 90% that make it so difficult for the other 10%... |
The societal factors that contributed to the radicalization of the Brussels and Gay Paree attackers are heightened by the fact that they executed attacks. Discrimination against Muslims in neighborhoods like Molenbeek and Schaerbeek worsens. It becomes even harder for members of those struggling communities to find jobs. And perhaps worst of all, it excludes them even further from the Belgian mainstream.
| The large proportion of recent refugees from Syria have the equivalent of a 5th grade EU education. If you were going to help them 'find jobs' you'd first have to put them back into primary school, the very infidel schools that they'd reject. You can't do German-style technical training because the refugees don't have the background and educational accomplishments to take advantage of that. You might pull it off it they were 10, or 100, but with 1,000,000 (and more arriving) the cohesiveness of the community prevents them from accepting the Faustian bargain you offer them -- that to "get ahead" in the Belgian "community" they have to lose themselves. |
"There is an increase in polarization within the majority community, and a sense of exasperation towards Muslims," Privot said in the aftermath of the March 22 attacks on a Brussels airport and metro station.
| Because the people in flyover Belgium, be they Flems, Loonies or Krauts, have figured out that the colonists don't want to be like them. |
"This is really in the mainstream. It's the man and woman on the street who decides to take justice in their hands and insult someone. ... A few months back, people would not resort to insults. Now, people do resort to racists slurs. You really see and feel the tensions within the society. So, this is one more nail in the coffin of social cohesion."
| The speaker hasn't quite figured it out: first that racism is a stain on human nature and that it's something that a community will do, given half a chance; and second, that the 'Belgian' community, like the rest of the EU community, has been sorely goaded, not just by the colonists, but by the nomenklatura. The ordinary people are beset on two sides: by Islamists who want to take their country from them, and by leaders who don't believe in the country in the first place. |
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