Belgistan? Sharia Showdown Looms in Brussels
By Dan Wooding, Founder of the ASSIST News Service
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
(ANS – October 10, 2015) -- The graffiti on a building in Belgium says
it all: “Welcome to ‘Belgistan.” In fact, some are now calling it the “Muslim
capital of Europe.”
According to Dale Hurd, CBN News Senior reporter, “Brussels is the capital of
Europe. But some are now calling it the Muslim capital of Europe.
“Muslims are still a minority in Belgium, but in the capital of Brussels,
they're already the largest religious group, comprising one-quarter of the
city's population.
“In less than 20 years they're expected to be the majority.”
Hurd went on to say that Sharia4Belgium, is the most confrontational Muslim
group in the country.
Many don't take the small group seriously. But Sharia4Belgium head Fouad
Belkacem, alias Abu Imran, sounded very serious when he told CBN News he expects
Muslims to dominate Belgium and the world.
“The Sharia will dominate,” Imran said. “We believe Sharia will be
implemented worldwide.”
Hurd stated that Sharia4Belgium is a public relations nightmare for those
Muslim groups that try to play down their ties to radicalism and Sharia law.
Imran was completely open with CBN News, saying Islam and Sharia law are
inseparable, and that democracy is evil.
“Sharia
is Islam, to be clear,” he said. “There is no difference between Islam and
Sharia, it's just a name.”
“Democracy is the opposite of Sharia and Islam,” he said. “We believe Allah
is the legislator. Allah makes the laws. He decides what is allowed and what is
forbidden.”
CBN News asked Imran about self-described “democratic Muslims” who are
against the extreme parts of Sharia law.
“That's really funny when I hear someone say I was speaking to a ‘democratic
Muslim,’” he replied.
“It's the same thing as saying I was speaking to Christian Jew, or a Jewish
Muslim or something like that. It's impossible.”
“How could you meet a Jewish Muslim or a Christian Jew?” he continued. “And
the Muslim who says he's against Sharia, he's not a Muslim. It's
impossible.”
Like in many countries across Europe, a culture war over Islam is well under
way in Belgium.
Last month, the mosque of Charleroi was desecrated when a pig mask was
affixed to its gate. Then the daughter of the head of Belgium's right wing
party, An-Sofie Dewinter, posed in a bikini and burqa with the words in Dutch,
“Freedom or Islam.”
Someone later painted over the poster, giving her a full burqa. Dewinter
received death threats.
On YouTube, Imran called her father, politician Filip Dewinter “a pimp” for
letting her pose in a bikini.
“This community is a dirty, perverted community. We see that this community
is breaking down, so we need to save this community like we saved it in Spain,”
Imran said, referencing the Muslim invasion of Spain 1,300 years ago.
“We need to save this community and enlighten this community with Islam,” he
told CBN News.
And Islam is flexing its muscle. Girls in bikinis have been attacked, and in
some Muslim neighborhoods, Sharia law is enforced.
A ‘Fascist Ideology’
“The big
cities in Europe are first places we can see what will happen when the majority
is Muslim,” warned Sam van Rooy, co-editor of an important new Dutch language
book called Islam: Critical Essays on a Political Religion.
“We see it in the big cities: Brussels, Amsterdam also, Rotterdam and
Antwerp,” he said.
“Islam is a fascist ideology, and it's not a religion like Christianity and
Judaism,” he told CBN News. “The danger in it is that it has a religious side,
not like Communism and Nazism, which are only ideologies, but Islam has a bit of
both.”
Imran, said Hurd, is looking forward to someday replacing Belgian law with
the Sharia law, including amputation for theft, stoning for adultery, and death
to homosexuals.
“A lot of people, when they hear about Sharia, immediately start thinking
about amputations, stoning, killings. That's just, I don't know, one-thousandth
of the Sharia,” he said.
“Did you know that in 1,302 years of the Islamic state, with the Sharia
implemented, we had something like 60 hands cut off, amputated? So in 1,300
years, 60 hands,” he noted.
“Is that really a number that you can say is frightening to everyone? And if
you're not a criminal, why should you be afraid of Sharia?” he challenged.
Sharia Showdown Looms
A showdown over Sharia is coming because the high Muslim birthrate is
changing the political landscape. The most common baby name in Brussels for four
years running has been Mohammed.
CBN News asked Imran if he thinks it's just a matter of time before Muslims
are the majority in Belgium.
“Of course,” he replied. “Even the disbelievers themselves -- they say in
2030 something like that -- there will be a majority of Muslims here in Belgium.
Here in Antwerp in the schools, 40 percent of the children are Muslim, so no
problem.”
And Imran
offered this advice to the white native Belgians who want to stop the coming
Muslim majority: “If they want to push us back or something, I don't know, maybe
they can start by marrying four wives and have a lot of children,” he said.
“Start with that and they will have a chance, but I don't think so.”
Van Rooy also said he sees a Muslim future for Belgium.
“I don't think it's going to stop,” he told CBN News. “I am very pessimistic.
And I think more and more Belgian people will leave Brussels, so it will become
a real Islamic capital in decades.”
“I don't think we're very far away,” Imran agreed. “The victory of Allah is
very near. So, I think the West and Europe needs to prepare itself for a wave of
Sharia and Islam.”
For more information, http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/March/Belgistan-Sharia -Showdown-Looms-in-Brussels/
Photo captions: 1) Fouad Belkacem, the “charismatic leader” of the
Sharia4Belgium terrorist organization. 2) An observant Belgium Muslim with the
full face covering. 3) Muslims protest Belgian school ban on veil (Courtesy of
Belga). 4) This sign says it all.
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