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Filip Dewinter geïnterviewd op Amerikaanse TV-zender FOXNews n.a.v. reportage over islamisering van Brussel
Dewinter: "Brussel wordt binnen 15 jaar de hoofdstad van Eurabia"
Reporter FOXNews onthutst door islamisering van Brussel

Gisterenavond zond de Amerikaanse TV-zender FOXNews een reportage uit over de islamisering van Brussel, waarbij ook Vlaams Parlementslid Filip Dewinter uitgebreid geïnterviewd werd. De uitzending kon in heel Amerika bekeken worden en werd ook uitgezonden door tientallen regionale Amerikaanse zenders.

Naar aanleiding van de reportage bracht de TV-ploeg van FOXNews ondermeer een bezoek aan Sint-Joost-ten-Node en Molenbeek. De Foxreporter vertelde in de reportage hoe drie agenten-in-burger zijn TV-ploeg begeleidden tijdens het filmen in de straten van Molenbeek. Wanneer de ploeg 's namiddags terug wou keren om te filmen als het wat drukker was op straat, zeiden de agenten hen dat ze beter in hun auto bleven omdat het niet veilig was. "It wasn't even dark yet", merkte de reporter op. Op de eigen website (zie verder voor de volledige tekst) stelde FOXNews het als volgt: "Part of that fear stems from particularly nasty street crime, something that can happen in bad neighborhoods in any big European - or American - city. But part of it is due to strong anti-Western sentiment among Belgium's Muslims, which suggests that true integration is still a long way off." De conclusie van FOXNews over deze uitstap naar Molenbeek is dan ook: "Brussels looks more like North Africa than the heart of Europe."

In het interview met FOXNews zei Filip Dewinter het volgende: "Binnen 10, maximum 20 jaar, zal Brussel – de hoofdstad van Europa – volledig geïslamiseerd zijn. De moslimmachtsovername komt eraan. Nu reeds zijn er drie Brusselse gemeenten - Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Molenbeek en Schaarbeek – die een bevolking hebben met een islamitische meerderheid. Deze buurten zijn geen Vlaamse, Belgische of Europese wijken meer. Deze wijken lijken eerder op een kashba in Noord-Afrika. Brussel wordt een moslimstad. Brussel wordt de hoofdstad van Eurabia. In de toekomst zal Brussel lijken op een stad in Noord-Afrika of Saoedi-Arabië."

Voor Dewinter was het duidelijk: "Het zijn niet de moslims die integreren in onze samenleving, maar onze samenleving die zich aanpast aan de eisen van de radicale islam. De meerderheid van de moslims wil zich niet integreren in onze samenleving; de meerderheid wil de basis van onze Westerse samenleving niet aanvaarden. Zij weigeren de scheiding tussen Kerk en Staat en de gelijkheid tussen man en vrouw te aanvaarden."

Filip Dewinter waarschuwt in de reportage ook voor een dreigende escalatie van de problemen: "De autochtone Brusselse bevolking pikt de islamisering van haar stad niet. Ik heb schrik voor een gewelddadige confrontatie zoals we die ook de voorbije jaren in de Parijse voorsteden hebben gekend."

De volledige reportage van FOXNews is te bekijken op: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQJqiKvwI2g en http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI6Nm75jJLI

Philippe Van der Sande
Perswoordvoerder Filip Dewinter

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510364,00.html

Politicians Fret as Muslim Population Swells in Europe Amid Little Integration
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By Greg Burke

BRUSSELS, Belgium — A clash of civilizations may be taking place on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's also happening a lot more quietly in European cities. Old Europe's population is dwindling even as immigration and high birth rates among Muslim groups are swelling in cities all over the continent.

And in Belgium, it is no different. Filip Dewinter, a leader of the far-right separatist party Vlaams Belang, predicts there will eventually be a kind of civil war when the longtime residents of Brussels — the nation's capital and administrative seat of the European Union — realize their city is about to be taken over by Muslim immigrants.

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Although there are no official statistics on how many Muslims live in Brussels, it is believed they make up about 25 percent of the city’s 1 million urban residents. Dewinter, who opposes immigration and has called Islamophobia a "duty," claims three of the 19 sections of Brussels, each with its own mayor, now have Muslim majorities.

"In those neighborhoods it's not our government that's in power," he said, "but the Muslim authorities — the mosques, the imams — who are in charge."

FOX News visited one of those neighborhoods, called Molenbeek, which looks more like North Africa than the heart of Europe.

For some Belgians, that's not a problem. The mayor of Molenbeek, Socialist Philippe Moureaux, has worked hard to help Muslims try to integrate over the past decade and a half. Moureaux believes multiculturalism is a good thing. He says even those who disagree with him should get used to life as it is in Brussels today: "Be realistic. They're here. They're relatively numerous and they're growing."

Many Moroccans have been in Belgium for decades and are now citizens, as are their children. The imam of one of the main mosques, which thousands of young Moroccans attend each Friday, stressed that Muslim immigrants have starting blending in around Brussels.

During FOX News' brief visit, there were no fiery demonstrations of the kind that have wracked the Netherlands, though the municipality is sometimes considered dangerous to traverse at night.
Yet Molenbeek remains disconcerting. Belgian police assigned three plainclothes officers to watch over a FOX News team shooting street scenes one morning in Molenbeek. When FOX News returned in the afternoon as more people were out and about, the police said it would be safer not to get out of the car. It wasn't even dark yet.

Part of that fear stems from particularly nasty street crime, something that can happen in bad neighborhoods in any big European — or American — city. But part of it is due to strong anti-Western sentiment among Belgium's Muslims, which suggests that true integration is still a long way off.

Mayor Moureaux blames the problems on a tiny number of very violent youths who are condemned by everyone, including the Muslim community.

But for Dewinter, integration simply isn't working. He claims the great majority of the Muslims don't want it to work. So instead of being a melting pot, Brussels has become a city that does everything possible to appease Islam, he claims.

"Halal food is served in the schools, not only for Muslim children, but for all the children," said Dewinter, adding that municipal pools in Brussels now have separate hours for men and women to swim.

The anti-immigrant Vlaams Belang, once considered a pariah party, now controls about 24 percent of the Belgian vote, a trend matched in other European countries with burgeoning Muslim populations.
Though the immigration debate has not yet reached the fever pitch it has in the U.S., a real test will come when a major European city has a Muslim majority. The first could be Marseilles, in France, or Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. But don't count out Brussels, the heart and capital of Europe


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