While the Belgian establisment media, such as public television, publish polls indicating that the Belgians do not want their country to fall apart, Belgian Muslims seem so well integrated into Belgian society that the Flemish Muslims want to break up the Muslim Executive of Belgium following of a corruption scandal involving its French-speaking vice-president Kissi Benjelloul.

A quote from a leader in The Economist, 6 September 2007

True, in opinion polls most Belgians say they want to keep the show on the road. But when they vote, as they did on June 10th, they do so along linguistic lines, the French-speaking Walloons in the south for French-speaking parties, the Dutch-speaking Flemings in the north for Dutch-speaking parties. The two groups do not get on – hence the inability to form a government. [...]

No doubt more good things can come out of the swathe of territory once occupied by a tribe known to the Romans as the Belgae. For that, though, they do not need Belgium: they can emerge just as readily from two or three new mini-states, or perhaps from an enlarged France and Netherlands.

A quote from Jean-Claude Delepière, the head of OCAD, the Belgian government’s terrorism watchdog, in the Brussels newspaper De Morgen, 6 September 2007:

There is always a threat [of a terror attack in Belgium] because Belgium hosts a number of institutions, such as the EU and NATO headquarters as well as SHAPE [NATO’s European military HQ], which may have a symbolic value to terrorists. On the other hand, however, Belgium is careful to avoid any aggressive attitude that may provoke negative reactions from Muslims.

This afternoon Udo Ulfkotte, the German co-organizer of the anti-Islamization demonstration in Brussels on 11 September, called off the demonstration, which earlier was banned by the Brussels authorities. During the past weeks Ulfkotte claimed that he would bring 20,000 demonstrators to the Belgian and European capital. On his website he announced today that the demo will not take place for security reasons since “extremists prepared to use violence can abuse the demonstration for violent actions.”

A quote from Deutsche Welle TV, December 2006:

"Undercover in Little Morocco" is the name of a book written by the young Flemish journalist Hind Fraihi. She spent two months researching undercover among radical Muslims in Brussels. Among her shocking findings was the revelation that younger Muslims in particular are increasingly prone to violence, and not just in the cities.

For the last two years I have desultorily asked for a key to my office, none has been forthcoming. So the inevitable has happened. The other night my laptop was stolen from inside a bag, inside a cupboard, inside my office in the Strasbourg Parliament building. The stinkers also took my duty free cigs.

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The European Parliament: A Thieving Lot, 12 July 2007

Judge Simon Cardon de Lichtbuer of the Brussels civil court will not decide before Friday whether the anti-Islamization demonstration planned in Brussels next Tuesday, September 11, is allowed to go ahead. This morning, after hearing Senator Hugo Coveliers, the lawyer of SIOE (Stop the Islamization of Europe), the German-Danish-British group which is organizing the demo, and the lawyers of Freddy Thielemans, the Brussels mayor who banned the demo, Judge Cardon de Lichtbuer decided to postpone his decision until Friday.
 

A quote from a press statement of the Church of Scientology, 5 September 2007:

[T]he leaking [by the Belgian public prosecutor] of this information [about an investigation into crimes allegedly committed by the Scientology Church] to the press constitutes the latest evidence of the prosecution’s bad faith: due to the utter lack of substance behind this ten year “investigation”, the prosecution is reduced to raising its hollow charges through the press rather than through the Rule of Law in court.

A quote from Frank Vanhecke MEP, party leader of the Flemish-secessionist Vlaams Belang, in The Flemish Republic, 20 June 2007

We are not prepared, however, to swap Belgium for another multinational construct, a European superstate, which is bound to be even more undemocratic and oppressive than Belgium. We stand for an independent, sovereign Flanders and are opposed to all centralization attempts emanating from Brussels, whether it be “Belgian Brussels” or “European Brussels.”

A quote from Associated Press, 4 September 2007
 
Such is the deadlock between Dutch and French-speaking parties over how to form the next government that mainstream politicians and media are now openly airing the view that Belgium's linguistic camps may be better off divorcing. […] Many Flemish grouse their wealthier, service-based economy subsidizes Wallonia. Dutch-speakers view the Francophones' dilapidated cities and 14 percent unemployment – double their rate – as the legacy of hardline Socialist rule. Dutch-speakers are demanding autonomy in health care, justice and transport – some of the last bastions of central control from Brussels. Many feel the next logical step would be full independence.