Socialist lawmakers in the European Parliament wrote Wednesday to Thielemans [the mayor of Brussels] – also a socialist – supporting his decision to ban the [anti-Islamization] rally [on 9/11].
“Like you, we are convinced that the people behind this demonstration want above all to stigmatize a community for dark racist and xenophobic reasons as is proven by the readiness to lump Islam together with fundamentalist terrorism,” said Martin Schulz, a German who heads the Euro-parliament’s socialist group, a collection of 33 left-leaning parties from all 25 E.U. member states.