"Belgium Will Become an Islamic State"

The statements of Mark Elchardus, author of a 426 page study, who linked Islam with anti-Semitism, earned him a lawsuit filed by a Muslim group, which said that his comments violated Belgium's anti-discrimination law of 2007, which forbids discrimination on the basis of "religious convictions," and Article 444 of the Belgian penal code as his statements appeared in a newspaper and were therefore repeated extensively in print. Belgian law, however, apparently did not prevent Muslims from resorting to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

Two Muslim politicians, who just won municipal elections in Belgium's capital, Brussels, on October 14, have vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium.

The two candidates, Lhoucine A�t Jeddig and Redouane Ahrouch, both from the fledgling Islam Party, won seats in two heavily Islamized municipalities of Brussels, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Anderlecht, respectively.

During a post-election press conference in Brussels on October 25, the two future councilors, who will be officially sworn in on December 3, said they regard their election as key to the assertion of the Muslim community in Belgium.

"We are elected Islamists but above all we are Muslims," Ahrouch said. "Islam is compatible with the laws of the Belgian people. As elected Muslims, we embrace the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. We believe Islam is a universal religion. Our presence on the town council will give us the opportunity to express ourselves," said Ahrouch, who refuses to shake hands or make eye contact with females in public.

A one-hour video of the press conference in French has been posted on YouTube. At one point in the video (0:07:40) Ahrouch, 42, says he will strive to make sure that the town council's "motions and solutions are durable and definitive and will emanate from Islam."

Ahrouch, who was sentenced to six months in prison in 2003 for the assault and battery of his disabled wife, also spends considerable time talking about ethics in politics and "respect for the other."

Ahrouch says that his ultimate goal, creating an Islamic state in Belgium based on Islamic Sharia law, has not changed.

Speaking to a reporter from Radio T�l�vision Belge Francophone (RTBF), the public broadcasting service of the French-speaking part of Belgium, Ahrouch said: "The agenda is still the same, but our approach is different now. I think we have to sensitize people, make them understand the advantages to having Islamic people and Islamic laws. And then it will be completely natural to have Islamic laws and we will become an Islamic state."

The reporter interjected: "An Islamic State in Belgium?" Ahrouch replied: "In Belgium, of course! I am for the Sharia. Islamic law, I am for it. It is a long-term struggle that will take decades or a century, but the movement has been launched."

The rise of the Islam Party comes amid a burgeoning Muslim population in the Belgian capital. Muslims now make up one-quarter of the population of Brussels, according to a book recently published by the Catholic University of Leuven, the top Dutch-language university in Belgium.

In real terms, the number of Muslims in Brussels -- where half of the number of Muslims in Belgium currently live --- has reached 300,000, which means that the self-styled "Capital of Europe" is now the most Islamic city in Europe.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3442/belgium-islamic-state

Yeah, I read that some time ago. It is whispered in the dark recesses of the palace that the king of Belgium has submitted to Islam, like Obama and Cameron. Soon, ISIS will have its own delegation in the United Nations and all our toilets will be equipped with hoses... Oh well, At least our women won't pitch about the toilet being dirty anymore

There will be no toilets

Well, if you quit bombing the hell outta everything that moves it might give them the time to build some. How'd you like a bomb dropping on your head while you take your family to McDonals' or something?
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be upset about McDonarlds', I think that corporation should be sued for Dietary Terrorism, but I'm sure you'd have a thing or two to say to your neighborhood watch, wouldn't you?

Don't worry, there will be no McDonalds in Islamic Belgium either.

Good.

alleoops bombs everything?

According to the Fox News report I watched this morning he DID... twice!

well, fox news...you can't believe everything they say...but they do tell truth more than any other station...sometimes

Islam has come to take by force of sword what christianity couldnt take by peace. America and Europe rejected the God of peace and freedom. Hence the god of force is now the altanative. Once you reject the light, darkness becomes the inevitable choice. Enjoy the arrival of ISIS

Generalizing much? What is your country doing to help?

May the force be with you - Luke Skywalker

OPINIONNEWS MIDDLE EAST
What makes a state Islamic?

Tuesday, 23 June 2015



Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
What is it for someone to a Muslim? What is it for a society, or indeed a state, to be Islamic? These are questions that have been fermenting in the background of Islam since the first Caliphs, at least since the Kharijite schism, the first time Islam split, and different sections of Islam started applying takfir (or excommunication) to each other.

But it seems that we are living in an age in which these questions once again will come to dominate the agenda in the Muslim world, to a level it has done only a handful of times before. The rise of radical Islamism, and the jihadist world view of Us vs Them, “true Muslims” vs “Crusaders, Jews and Apostates” (i.e. anyone you might call a moderate Muslim), has seen to that. And I have said many times before that if these people seek to appropriate Islam for their demented political goals, then Muslims have no choice but to take up this question ourselves. Who is a true Muslim? I do not claim to have an ultimate, exclusive answer, but I do know that ISIS are not it. Nor is their state anything you might call Islamic.

In the late C19th, the Egyptian Islamic jurist and later Grand Mufti of Egypt Mohammad Abduh travelled to the West. Upon his return he noted: “I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.”

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
How do I know? I urge you to look up the Constitution of Madinah, the treaty by which the Prophet Mohammad established the first Islamic State – the actual Islamic state, which ISIS supposedly “harkens back” to. If you can find one state in the world at the moment that is less like Prophet Mohammad’s state in Madinah than ISIS, please get in touch with me immediately. But in the meantime, I, like many other Muslims, am left reflecting now, at the start of the month of Ramadan, how we ever allowed this gang of criminals and psychopathic murderers appropriate the name of “peace” (i.e. Islam). How it ever came to be that misguided mothers could voluntarily take their children into ISIS territory, simply because it calls itself “Islamic,” even as millions of refugees are driven out by the barbarism and brutality of this gang.

So what makes a society, a country Islamic? The name? The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or the Islamic Republic of Iran? Many Shiites or Ahmadis in Pakistan would disagree, as the state routinely and systematically fails to protect them against sectarian violence from Sunni extremist groups. Or is a country Islamic if they have majority Muslim population, like Turkey, even when the constitution of that country claims that the state is Secular? Or is it if they enact some variant of Sharia law, even if Sharia law has more schools of jurisprudence that are conceptually further apart than the Anglo-Saxon Common Law?

Measures of justice
There is a Prophetic tradition that says, roughly: “Wherever you will find justice, that is the Sharia of Allah.” In other words, the Sharia, the law of God, is simply justice. And a state is Islamic to the extent to which it is just. Specifically, to the extent to which it treats all people equally, grants equal rights and freedom of conscience, and protects the weak and vulnerable against abuses by the strong, wealthy and powerful.

So what countries would we say are Islamic then? Clearly not ISIS, where the rape and murder of the weak and vulnerable is de rigueur. As it happens, all so called Muslim countries in the world today are doing really rather badly by measures of Islamic Justice. According to a survey by a U.S. academic on which countries best promote the fundamental Islamic values which must be the bedrock of any Islamic society as defined by the Sharia, values such fairness, equal opportunity, care for the weak, vulnerable and minorities, equality of justice, freedom of religion, preservation of family and wealth etc, the best ranked Muslim country in the world, Malaysia, comes in at number 33. The only other country in the top 50, Kuwait comes in at number 48. Most other counties, especially those who are very keen to call themselves “Islamic,” are doing very, very poorly indeed.

The most Islamic country in the world then? Ireland. Yes, Ireland which epitomises all the Islamic values as defined by the Sharia. Where you can be a Muslim, of any sect or confession, or indeed any other religion, where you can practice your creed freely regardless of your doctrinaire preferences, unlike in most so called Muslim countries today, and very much in keeping with the Qur’anic rules of a just society, and where you have to opportunity to live and prosper in mainstream society whatever your background – or at least certainly more than you would if you were from an unfortunate minority in any Muslim-majority country today. The other countries in the top 10 are Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Singapore, Finland, Norway, and Belgium.

In the late C19th, the Egyptian Islamic jurist and later Grand Mufti of Egypt Mohammad Abduh travelled to the West. Upon his return he noted: “I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.” And today, this observation stands truer than ever. Islamic justice, the Sharia of Allah, is not something one can find in any Muslim-majority country today. You may find the suggestion that Ireland is the most Islamic country in the world peculiar. If you are of a specific inclination, you may even find it offensive. Fine. But no matter what your persuasion, no matter how you’ve been affected by identity politics lately, you cannot argue that ISIS is in any way, shape, or form “Islamic.” It is the very antithesis of the word.

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Dr. Azeem Ibrahim is a Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College and Lecturer in International Security at the University of Chicago. He completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge and served as an International Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a World Fellow at Yale. Over the years he has met and advised numerous world leaders on policy development and was ranked as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the European Social Think Tank in 2010 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He tweets @AzeemIbrahim


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E-mail scams.

ofcourse, there are few exceptions here and there. But a situation where most western countries legalize sexual perversions and every conceivable moral decadence. And went further to export such evils and even threaten any country that prohibits their satanic "freedom" and "human right" with sanctions. Isis is the alternative where righteousness is hated

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Belgium/

Islam is the largest minority in Belgium

Coming from a country famous for scams?

How come Boko Haram?