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Has Belgium created 'a system of apartheid'?
BBC News ^ | 15 January 2016 | Tim Whewell

Posted on 01/15/2016 1:57:46 PM PST by presidio9

At a police training academy on the outskirts of Brussels, new recruits are wrestling one another to the ground - practising techniques of unarmed restraint. There are about 40 of them - fresh-faced young people in their 20s, men and women - but what's immediately noticeable is that with one exception, they're all white.

Watching them is Paul Jacobs. For 20 years he dealt with discrimination complaints in the Belgian police - and he's just finished a session teaching this class "inter-cultural communication".

They discussed why so many Belgian youngsters go to fight in Syria - a higher proportion, relative to the population, than from any other country in Europe. And a heated argument broke out when Suhaila, the only non-white recruit - from a Moroccan background, like many Belgian Muslims - said she could understand why young Muslims might become jihadis.

For a visitor to Brussels, where more than a quarter of the population is Muslim, that's a surprising thought. But Paul Jacobs is not surprised.

"I am a little bit scared to use this term," he says. "But I think we live in a system of apartheid. You really have ghettos. And what is more important, and more dangerous, is not that people aren't living together - it's the mental ghetto."

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"People in Brussels live side-by-side, but don't often meet one another," she says. She thinks divisions have been reinforced because many young Belgians of Moroccan and Turkish descent have reacted against anti-Muslim feeling since 9/11 by defiantly adopting a more religious identity.

"Young people want a Muslim identity," she says, "but they haven't read the Koran, so it's become a matter of slogans - that girls should wear hijab and boys should grow beards."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: belgium; europe; migrants

1 posted on 01/15/2016 1:57:46 PM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Immigration isn’t an automatic right, and shouldn’t be seen as such. The only people who should be admitted as permanent residents are people who have something to offer the country, who can be assimilated into the culture of the country. The only people who should be granted citizenship are people who admire the culture of the country, and want to be part of it. It is not a mere legality and should never be debased into a mere legality.

Opening your country to people who will not assimilate, who do not love you, and will wall themselves into ghettos is a recipe for national suicide. It is a guarantee of violence down the road.


2 posted on 01/15/2016 2:04:29 PM PST by marron
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To: presidio9

This chart is old. There is a more up to date one attached to the article, but it won't post here. Belgium is still in the lead by a wide margin, having sent over 400 fighters to ISIS that we know of.

3 posted on 01/15/2016 2:05:44 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

All of the Belgian police recruits are white because Belgians are white. Muslims living in Belgium are not Belgians, they are Muslims.

These things are called “facts.”


4 posted on 01/15/2016 2:09:40 PM PST by henkster (Hillary Clinton's supporters are beginning to realize they are fettered to a corpse.)
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To: presidio9

Muslims bow to a segregated city in allegiance 5 time a day, every day.

Islam knows all about how to establish apartheid.


5 posted on 01/15/2016 2:20:54 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: presidio9

What RACE is a MUSLIM?


6 posted on 01/15/2016 2:25:26 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

These six gentlemen have only two things in common, as far as I can tell:

A hatred of this country, and the Islamic faith.

7 posted on 01/15/2016 2:29:51 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

It is ghettos created by the immigrants themselves.


8 posted on 01/15/2016 2:32:41 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: presidio9
"Young people want a Muslim identity," she says, "but they haven't read the Koran, so it's become a matter of slogans - that girls should wear hijab and boys should grow beards."

Why can't they just get motorcycles or smoke crack or dye their hair purple instead?

9 posted on 01/15/2016 3:58:56 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: presidio9

End the arartheid by expelling the savages.


10 posted on 01/15/2016 4:05:57 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: presidio9
what's immediately noticeable is that with one exception, they're all white.

And the problem is what exactly?

11 posted on 01/15/2016 4:07:21 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: GraceG

End the apartheid by expelling the savages.

Watcha wanna doo....Give South Africa back to the folks who brought indoor plumbing to the country??


12 posted on 01/15/2016 4:13:06 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: presidio9

“I am a little bit scared to use this term,” he says. “But I think we live in a system of apartheid. You really have ghettos. And what is more important, and more dangerous, is not that people aren’t living together - it’s the mental ghetto.”

I suspect that even the old Sude Africa that everyone despised had better racial integration than Belgium and most Europeans countries have with their Muslims.


13 posted on 01/15/2016 4:48:40 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: presidio9

They should kick the muslim out.


14 posted on 01/15/2016 4:57:54 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: presidio9

Preserving The Islamic Identity in The West Threats & Solutions

http://www.missionislam.com/knowledge/preserveident.htm

conclusion:

It is therefore unavoidable that as long as we live here we will, through a process of cultural osmosis, take on some of the characteristics of the Kuffar. The likeness of Islam and Kuffar is like that of fresh clear spring water and water brought up from the bottom of a suburban sewer. If even a drop of the filthy water enters the clear water, the clarity diminishes. Likewise it only takes a drop of the filth of disbelief to contaminate Islam in the West. If we have it within our means we should therefore consider moving to a Muslim land whereby we can at least live amongst our brethren and within an Islamic society free from the contamination of the disbelievers.


Silly imam, they won’t leave and they will not assimilate. They are parasites.


15 posted on 01/16/2016 6:24:50 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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