Thursday, April 20, 2006

More Than Just a French Problem


From the Brussels Journal:

Last Wednesday Joe Van Holsbeeck, 17 years of age, was murdered in Brussels Central Station. He was stabbed five times in the heart by North African youths. They demanded that he give them his MP3 player. When Joe refused he was savagely murdered. The atrocity happened during the evening rush hour on a crowded platform....

...Belgian citizens realize, however, that the murder has nothing to do with “indifference in Belgian society,” but everything with a group of North African youths terrorizing Brussels and the “indifference” of the authorities to eradicate this scourge. Last January five Moroccan youths slit the throat of a 16 year old black boy and left him to bleed to death because he refused to buy a cell phone they had stolen. The murderers have not yet been found. Some Belgians doubt whether Joe’s murderers will ever be found, and if so, how long they will have to serve. In 1998 Patrick Mombaerts, a 32 year old electrician, was murdered by a Moroccan youth who was after his money. The murderer spent only seven months in jail because he was a minor at the time of the murder. The Moroccan thugs do not care about life and they are used to slitting throats – a procedure they get to practise on sheep from a very young age...

It's going to be a slow painful thing, watching Europe slowly come
to the realization that they are under attack. Subway thugs don't
even bother to pretty-up their crimes with the patina of Jihad.

Not living in Europe it's hard for me to judge the extent of the
problem, but from the reports I read from France, Belgium, Scandinavia,
etc. it would seem this is a gathering storm. How bad will it get?
And what severe measures will have to be taken to reverse this trend?

Maybe Europe, and we in the States too, could adopt the measures taken
by, um, give me a minute here to google the name of a country that
doesn't have a problem with Muslims killing westerners. Um, no, not
Spain, caving on troops in Iraq bought them nothing. Well maybe a fair
and accommodating society such as found in the Scandinavian countries...
no, terrorists have been found there too. Ah, but maybe it's the
people who matter, maybe Buddhists can get along with Muslims. Well,
except in Indonesia, or, well, I guess any place you find Buddhists.

OK then, we've got a solution to the problem. The solution is to find
the place where Muslims get along with westerners and just copy
the policies, attitudes, and accommodations that seem to be working
in that peaceful place. First assignment Europe: find that magical
place.

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