Posted on 03/22/2016 4:37:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
As the bad news out of Brussels continues to unfold today, we are reminded of some of the coverage that the city has received in the past. As I listened to the expert analysis of precisely what went so wrong there, the name of on particular segment of the city kept coming up repeatedly. The neighborhood of Molenbeek has long been known as a breeding ground for terrorists and a virtual “no go” sector for the cops, no matter what other European leaders say. CNN terrorism analysts this morning were bemoaning the fact that previous efforts to locate suspects in the neighborhood were met with a “wall of silence” if not overt hostility. In fact, you couldn’t find one “expert” on the air today who wasn’t talking about this problem as if it were just a sad but known fact of life.
Of course, much of the media was singing a different tune only two months ago when The Donald had the audacity to point out some of the problems in Brussels, saying Trump had found “a new city to insult.”
Now Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, “a hellhole.”
Asked by the Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate.
“There is something going on, Maria,” he said. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know, there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.”…
For Belgians, already reeling from recent terrorist plots and a chronically dysfunctional government, Mr. Trump’s words were enough to induce a fit of pique worthy, in some cases, of Mr. Trump himself.
Adding even more irony to the story, Trump had referenced the work of Eric Zemmour regarding the situation in Brussels. The French writer had been sending up warnings about Molenbeek for some time and they seem eerily prescient in light of today’s events.
Éric Zemmour, a French writer, recently suggested in an interview that rather than bombing the Islamic State’s self-declared capital of Raqqa, Syria, France should bomb Molenbeek, the working-class district in Brussels where several of the Paris attackers lived.
Most Belgian officials reacted with quiet defiance. “We don’t react to Mr. Trump’s comments,” the office of Mayor Yvan Mayeur of Brussels said in an email. “Have a nice day.”
I’m sure using the phrase “hell hole” was a bit on the heavy handed side, but looking around the smoking ruins of the Brussels metro today and the neighborhood where the police are looking for suspects, it certainly seems appropriate. I don’t imagine that the Times will be offering any apologies to Trump today, and perhaps none are in order. But if there was any doubt about the fact that there’s something bad going on in Brussels these days, it’s been dispelled in an abrupt, tragic fashion.
The Mayor of Brussels may not react to Mr. Trump’s comments, but his city had best figure out a way to react to what’s going on in Molenbeek, and quickly.
Notice the date of the Slimes Article: Jan 27, 2016
Donald Trump Finds New City to Insult: Brussels
By DAN BILEFSKY and CLAIRE BARTHELEMY
JAN. 27, 2016
Molenbeek, the working-class Brussels district where several of the Paris attackers lived. Donald J. Trump’s characterization of Belgium’s capital as a “hellhole” has upset Belgians. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times
LONDON — He incensed Paris and London by saying that some of their neighborhoods were so overrun with radicals that the police were too scared to enter.
He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain.
Now, Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, “a hellhole.”
Asked by the Fox Business Network Another reason this rabid left wing excuse for an entity should not be given any federal funding.
anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate.
“There is something going on, Maria,” he said. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know, there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.”
Warming to his theme, he added that Brussels was in a particularly dire state. “You go to Brussels — I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful — it’s like living in a hellhole right now,” Mr. Trump continued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/europe/trump-finds-new-city-to-insult-brussels.html
I guess the NY Times should have paid attention. Trump’s numbers will rise again.
FULL PAGE APOLOGY TOMORROW!!
and i’ll wake up looking like I did 20 years ago.
Brussels turned out to be a hell hole, didn’t it??
It seems stupid, doesn’t it?
The statement “there will be grievous Muslim attacks in European cities” is about as obvious as saying “the sun will rise in the East tomorrow.”
What did Kasich, Cruz, Romney, Hillary and Kerry have to say about Belgium prior to the attack?
How ‘bout that!
Even James Taylor doesn’t want to be Teds friend
>a breeding ground for terrorists<
read: a muzzie enclave.
Then said the prophecy of Mara Largo predicted Kathryn Steinle , San Bernardo and Brussels
Watch this starting at 1:08:55
Why Islam Needs a Reformation - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxqJELw3uA&feature=player_detailpage#t=3469
Hillsdale College is an outstanding institution, their monthly essay, Imprimis, enlightens.
The Donald is more informed and better advised than any of the so-called candidates opposing him. JMHO!
And check this out:
Piers Morgan DEFENDING TRUMP! Wow. Never thought that would happen.
#9 ~ “Even James Taylor doesn’t want to be Teds friend.” ~ Funny! thank you so much for the beer blowback suds on my monitor, you suck! Ha!
“Imprimis enlightens.”
We subscribe to that. It’s a great publication!
And Cruz is the deep thinker and expert on world affairs. Riiiight...
Citizens are voluntarily imprisoning themselves in their homes... that's 'hellhole'...
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