One Down...
And the first EurArabia Domino falls....
Belgium introduced voting rights for non-Belgian residents in order to counter the “islamophobic” and Flemish secessionist Vlaams Belang (VB). As a result multitudes of Muslim candidates were elected in major cities in last Sunday’s local elections. In Antwerp the immigrants are now demanding an alderman’s post in the city government, which consists of the mayor and ten aldermen. In Brussels the Parti Socialiste (PS) is embarrassed at the election of Murat Denizli as a Socialist councilor. Denizli is a hardright Turkish extremist belonging to the Grey Wolves. In the Netherlands political parties are facing serious problems with Turkish candidates who refuse to acknowledge the 1915 Armenian genocide.
In Antwerp all the mainstream parties have (again) teamed up in a coalition in order to keep the VB out of local government. In 1989 the Belgian parties signed an agreement – the so-called “cordon sanitaire” – that, no matter what the outcome of the elections may be, they will never enter into a coalition with the VB. The VB has 20 of the 55 seats in the new Antwerp city council. The new governing coalition of Socialists, Christian-Democrats and Liberals holds 33 seats. Of the latter 9 seats are held by Muslims (7 Socialists and 2 Christian-Dems), which gives them real vetoing power within the new coalition. The most popular candidate on the Socialist list of mayor Patrick Janssens is Fauzaya Talhaoui. She got more votes than any other candidate apart from Janssens himself. Talhaoui wants to become a city alderman, but her demand is posing problems for the mayor, who had already promised the position of alderman to other politicians before the elections.
No Surprises here. I would think that NATO and possibly the EU Headquarters will be moving out a bit down the road. I've always found it interesting that the Europeans have no center-right parties. They only have left-of-center and far-far-right parties. Well, the pundits always said that Belgium would go first because of the demographics and because it is the center of Euroweenieism. France can't be far behind. This is what they have waiting for them.And now this: The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. Whilst sitting on a terrace in Berlin, Broder pointed to the other customers and the passers-by and said melancholically: “We are watching the world of yesterday.” Thanx to Kim and Samisdata for the links
If my memory fails me correctly, this is how Hitler became Chancellor. The President (not Hindenburg, his successor) brought Hitler into the government in the hopes that he would thereby be able to stop the brawling in the streets between the Nazis and the Communists. After a series of run-off elections in which the Nazis came in third, then second, Hitler was elected Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.
If my memory fails me correctly, this is how Hitler became Chancellor. The President (not Hindenburg, his successor) brought Hitler into the government in the hopes that he would thereby be able to stop the brawling in the streets between the Nazis and the Communists. After a series of run-off elections in which the Nazis came in third, then second, Hitler was elected Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.