Herman Van Rompuy has become the first president of Europe. Mr. Rompuy is a hard-line opponent of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union because it is an Islamic country. Van Rompuy, Belgium’s Prime Minister and a Christian Democrat, has in the past spoken out against Turkish EU membership because, he warned, it would dilute…
About 250 protesters participated in an anti-mosque protest organized by Vlaams Belang in Sint-Janswijk. The right wing political party protested against the recognition of the Attakwa mosque in the neighborhood. While the protest was mostly without incident, one person was arrested after trying to throw a jar of white paint on Vlaams Belang leader Filip…
Head of the far-right Vlaams Belang party, Filip Dewinter, accuses Islam as being modern Europe’s main problem in his new book. Dewinter argues that the influence of Islam in Europe should be stemmed, and described Islamophobia as “an obligation.” In his book, titled “Insha’Allah? The Islamization of Europe,” Dewinter dismisses moderate Muslims and suggests that…
In the next few weeks, Vlaams Belang plans to conduct a campaign to inform Flemish customers about the increasing supply of halal products. The campaign, which is utilizing the slogan Consumers against Islamization says that it does not support a boycott, but emphasized that the growth of a halal market may fit in with radicalist…
Vlaams Belang introduced a campaign called Stop Islamization in Ghent. The party plans to distribute twenty thousand pamphlets in neighborhoods most fiercely hit by Islamization. The campaign includes demands against subsidizing Islam, questionable marriages, ritual slaughter, and includes stricture regulations for the development of mosques and a headscarf ban for teachers.
