Thread: Third Night of Ramadan Rioting in Capital of Europe

From the desk of Paul Belien on Wed, 2006-09-27 11:32

It looks as if immigrants youths want to turn nightly rioting during the Islamic holy month of ramadan into an annual tradition. Around 8:30pm last night violence erupted again in Brussels, the capital of Europe. The riots centered on the Brussels Marollen quarter and the area near the Midi Train Station, where the international trains from London and Paris arrive. Youths threw stones at passing people and cars, windows of parked cars were smashed, bus shelters were demolished, cars were set ablaze, a youth club was arsoned and a shop was looted. Two molotov cocktails were thrown into St.Peter’s hospital, one of the main hospitals of central Brussels. The fire brigade was able to extinguish the fires at the hospital, but youths managed to steal the keys of the fire engine.

During the month of ramadan Muslims are required to fast during the day and are only allowed to eat after sunset. As Esther pointed out “What should be noticed about the riots is that they start after sunset. Besides the fact that they start after dark, it also gives the rioters enough time to break their fast and enjoy the traditional family meal. Sunset is around 7:30pm.” Tuesday’s and Monday’s riots began around 8:30pm.

Last night the police arrested 45 rioters. One of them will be prosecuted for assaulting the owner of a shop. Philippe Close, the chef de cabinet of the Mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, said that the authorities would continue their efforts to defuse the situation in a peaceful manner, but he announced that the police will be less complacent in future, “since we cannot tolerate that this [Marollen] neighbourhood falls victim to a problem from outside the neighbourhood.”

The immigrant youths claim that they are upset by the death of Fayçal Chaaban, a 25-year old criminal, in a Brussels prison last Sunday. Yesterday morning the authorities announced they would hold a meeting with the youths to hear their grievances about security in prison, but the meeting, which was due last night, could not take place because of the riots.

The authorities are especially nervous since the Belgian municipal elections are being held on Sunday October 8th. It is likely that the elections will be won by anti-immigrant, “islamophobic” parties. Since ramadan will not be over on October 8th and many immigrants might perceive a victory of the indigenous right (as opposed to their own far-right) as an insult, Muslim indignation over the election results in major cities may spark serious disturbances. According to a poll published today the Vlaams Belang party is set to win 38.6% of the vote in Antwerp (compared to 33,0% in the previous municipal elections six years ago).

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1384

Exellent! Viva Islam. More is worse, etc.......

I wish we could get something like this going to break the stalemate!! It will be 2 more years at least to see movement, even with all our screaming being heard......


The Border is open for DRUG business and a fence would interfere with ease of transporting drugs for one.....that goes all the way to the top.....or else they would close it.....

Republians are criminals.......now you know........

BADMONKEY

Let's be fair and call a spade a spade.....they're all crooks & criminals. Neither side of the aisle have halos. I'm a serious Conservative and severely dislike Bush & cronies just as much as I do Clintons and their cronies.

Newsflash folks.........they're all in on this act of treason for love of both POWER & MONEY.

BADMONKEY wrote,

Republians are criminals.......now you know........

To say that all Repulicans are criminals is the same as saying all Democrats are encouraging people here illegally to vote in order to "win back the power"
I think that voter fraud is going to be a huge problem in this election. The way to stop it is to verify that all of the people that vote in the elections are citizens of this country and in order to do that they should have a legally obtained verifiable form of identification.

Colorado passed a law that was supposed to make voters show ID when voting - one of the forms of ID that was listed as acceptable was a utility bill!!!
On the 28th of September, Congress introduced this bill and it passed. Check out the voting record for this bill at the bottomto see who voted for it.


http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2006-459

H.R. 4844: Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006



Official Title: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each individual who desires to vote in an election for Federal office to provide the appropriate election official with a government-issued photo identification, and for other purposes.

Status: Passed House (98% of Republicans supporting, 98% of Democrats opposing.)
This bill has been passed in the House. The bill now goes on to be voted on in the Senate.
Introduced: Mar 2, 2006
Last Action: Sep 21, 2006: Received in the Senate.
Sponsor: Rep. Henry Hyde [R-IL]show cosponsors (11)
Cosponsors
Rep. Virginia Brown-Waite [R-FL]
Rep. John Doolittle [R-CA]
Rep. Vernon Ehlers [R-MI]
Rep. Tom Feeney [R-FL]
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R-MI]
Rep. Jeff Miller [R-FL]
Rep. Adam Putnam [R-FL]
Rep. Peter Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Mark Souder [R-IN]
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-GA]
Rep. Addison Wilson [R-SC]
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See also: H. Res. 1015

Votes on Passage
Sep 20, 2006: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The totals were: 228 Ayes, 196 Nays, 8 Present/Not Voting.
View Members' Votes (roll no. 459)

See how they voted.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2006-459