Belgium – touted to be the first Muslim state in Europe
Is your city next?
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Belgium, a visually beautiful country in Western Europe, famous for their chocolatiers, vibrant musical festivals, beer and my personal favourite — the double fried chip! A democratic country that is steeped in history and political liberalism, interweaved with rich Medieval and Art Nouveau architecture in the urban areas, and rolling green hills, windmills and picturesque villages with thatched roofs and tall steeples in the rural areas.
You may then be surprised to learn that the terror threat level in Belgium is rated as ‘high’. And in Brussels, the countries capital, the threat level has hovered around three and four for years — indicating that terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks in Belgium.
Why Belgium you might ask? Well, Belgium is a country, that like much of Europe has been particularly benevolent to Muslim immigrants. In 1964, Belgium took part in migration agreements with Turkey and Morocco. After which thousands of Turks and Moroccans moved to Belgium attracted by the flexible migration conditions, the prospect of work and the welfare benefits. Moroccans today make up the largest ethnocultural minority in the country. Coming essentially from the Rif area1, which is mainly under Islamist influence. And unfortunately, not all of this ideology has been left in Morocco.
Muslims constitute around 20 per cent of the population of the capital Brussels, and due to the high birth rate of Muslim families compared to the native Europeans leads experts estimate that Muslims will have colonised Belgium within years2. In 2021, a veiled Muslim Ihsane Haouach3 was appointed as their Commissioner for Gender Equality. Unsurprisingly Haouach aims to inspire leaders to ‘embrace diversity and inclusivity in their organisations.’ Haouach was appointed by Sarah Schlitz4, (Belgian State Secretary for Gender Equality and member of the Greens.) Another example of the unholy alliance between the left and Islam.
Belgium’s government has been extremely generous toward its Muslim population. The majority of its welfare goes to Muslims, and even subsidises their mosques and Imams. In the EU capital of Belgium, as well as neighbouring Netherlands, Muslims are roughly five per cent of the population yet consume 40 to 60 per cent of the welfare budget5. Belgium spends more on unemployment benefits than any other country outside Denmark6. Yet they hold little patriotism or culture of the country of which they live.
Sharia4Belgium7 was one of the most popular youth organisations in the country at the start of this century. Young Muslim men from the group would regularly harass non-Muslims to comply with Sharia law on the street, banning the smoking of cigarettes, the use of alcohol and the sale of pork. Women who didn’t cover up would be abused, attacked and sexually harassed. In 2011, an Islamic Sharia law court — an initiative of Sharia4Belgium — was established in Antwerp, the second-largest city in Belgium. In February 2015 the group was designated a terrorist organisation by a Belgian judge8.
The Sharia court was created as a parallel Islamic legal system in Belgium in order to challenge the state's authority as enforcer of the civil law protections guaranteed by the Belgian constitution.
This begs the questions why you would immigrate to a European country, escaping your own country due to its failures, only to bring the culture of that failed state to your new one? And why do the constituents of these countries allow it.
In April this year, a girl was raped over a period of days, by a gang of teenage immigrants who all took turns sexually assaulting her9. They then posted videos of the attack on social media — sadly the girl took her own life a week later. A horrible, but not isolated case, revealed Liesbet Stevens10, an expert in gender equality. Stevens stated that around 200 gang rapes are reported in Belgium every year — with a problematically high representation by immigrants perpetrators.
Belgium has unwittingly become a major hotbed for radicalisation in Europe. Owning the statistic for the largest number of jihadists per capita at 33.0 fighters per one million residents11. A number to be proud of, for sure.
But if you think Belgium is a far away place that has no effect on your life — think again. Following Belgiums path, with similar projections of islamisation, are Sweden, France, Greece and Bulgaria. Maybe this is just the way of things, you say — but I don’t think so. It’s much more insidious than that.
What we are witnessing is a Caliphate in real time. Apathy and ignorance, lax border policies, and fear — bordering on phobia — of being called a racist, has catapulted Europe into the bosom of Islam. It is no longer just the violent terror attacks that we need to fear, it is the islamisation from within that is infecting our institutions, left wing politics and social media.
The truth is, Muslims as a whole have no interest in integrating into the culture of a new country. Instead they are creating Islamic no-go zones, free from as much Western influence as possible. Even moderate Muslims will side with fundamentalist Muslims rather than with the ‘other’ (non-Muslims).
They create enclaves where they openly hold allegiance to Allah over the governing power of the nation, marry within their community, (often to a Muslim from a sharia country) and send their children to Islamic schools, while continuing to reap the benefits of Europes quality of life and welfare. There is no assimilation of culture. Their aim is not to become more Belgian, but for Belgium to become more Islamic — and it appears to be working.
I’ve yet to understand why we allow immigrants to enter our countries and then put up with them imposing their backward, misogynistic cultures on to us. Frustratingly, we do it with a smile and welfare benefits. We are being treated like fools, and proud counties like Belgium look like they will pay the ultimate price. The fact that Muslims are encouraged to vote as a collective means that they wield more power than their percentage numbers suggest.
Are we so thin skinned and fearful of being called ‘racist’ that we allow our open and free societies to be colonised? Am I fearful of Islam? Damn right I am. I understand that the freedoms that I have, and the rights that I enjoy are not a given. People fought hard and died for the life that I enjoy today, and if we don’t protect it and fight for it — it can and will be taken away.
Belgium is looking like it will become a cautionary tale of unchecked immigration. And they are not alone. Many European and Western countries have followed the same model and are presenting with the same problems. It may be too late to reverse the trajectory of Belgium, but the conversation needs to be had if we are to prevent many more countries falling under the colonisation of Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rif
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/prr-12-2018-0034/full/html
https://ihsanehaouach.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Schlitz
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/uploads/3dc37b95-94ca-4c3b-a571-07b9a2451715/museucitiesbel_20080101.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2031952517699134?journalCode=ella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia4Belgium
https://www.brusselstimes.com/31470/sharia4belgium-sharia4belgium-is-a-terrorist-organization
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/belgium-teen-gang-raped-by-minors-after-being-lured-into-forest-youngest-offender-is-aged-11-5625126
https://www.universiteitvanvlaanderen.be/college/hoe-verleid-je-juridisch-verantwoord-een-vrouw
https://www.ict.org.il/UserFiles/ICT-IRI-Belgium-Teich-Feb-16.pdf
Great piece, Kelli. I’m from the UK so this is very close to home for us. A cautionary tale indeed.
Imagine paying to be colonized and have your culture eradicated.