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Oh, I don't give Leopold any credit at all. :) The Belgian army, however, fought quite well in places despite being horribly overmatched and not properly integrated with the French and the BEF.

I'm not going to get smug on this thread about us being so much superior to the Belgians on that bus who watched those "yoots" beat the man to death. You could hear a story just like this coming out of New York or Los Angeles or Detroit tomorrow. And yet there's some indefinable difference, something I can't put my finger on, about how we would react versus how the Belgians are reacting in this article. I can't help but think that here, there'd be less hand-wringing. The police in almost any American city would react, and react quickly. They'd investigate aggressively, they'd get tips from the 'hood, they'd be able to find the perpetrators without being run off by "dozens of youths."

The difference, I guess, is that here, a bunch of Crips or Bloods that beat a bus driver to death wouldn't have a support system outside their gang, or maybe their families. Society would ostracize them. But as for the Belgians...these punks are *empowered* by militant Islam. They aren't observant Muslims, I'd be willing to bet. But the Muslim immigrant community in Belgium will defend them--out of respect, our of fear, out of tribalism, whatever--and has their backs. They have an entire subculture of hundreds of thousands of people who will stonewall the authorities, who will hide them, who will praise them for what they've done. That's the biggest difference.

These scum aren't doing what they're doing in the name of Islam. But Islam is making it possible.

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Good morning.
"And yet there's some indefinable difference, something I can't put my finger on, about how we would react versus how the Belgians are reacting in this article."

You can see the difference in the response of FReepers as opposed to the response of the Belgians quoted in the article.

We may be keyboard commandos at the moment, but we are angry and making no bones about it.

The Belgians talk about keeping their mouths shut and their eyes averted.

Incidents like this do happen in the USA but not in the way they do in Eurabia, and we are less likely to stand by looking at the ground.

A few years ago two citizens jumped a man who had just gutted a woman on our main drive. The murderer was waving the knife around, but these two men still did what they had to do. Would Europeans have done so? Brits??

Michael Frazier