Would a quote from The Brussels Journal stand a chance of appearing on Amnesty International's irrepressible.info website one day?

Readers of The Brussels Journal already know that the Belgian government has been harassing Paul Belien for quite a while now, first in a direct way through the CEOOR (Center for Equal Opportunities and Opposition against Racism), and later in an indirect way in connection with home schooling. One certainly gets the impression that the goal seems to be to shut down The Brussels Journal one way or another, and recently both The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal have reported about this in an editorial and an article respectively.

Kari Vogt, historian of religion at the University of Oslo, has stated that Ibn Warraq’s book “Why I am Not a Muslim” is just as irrelevant to the study of Islam as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are to the study of Judaism. She is widely considered as one of the leading expert on Islam in Norway, and is frequently quoted in national media on matters related to Islam and Muslim immigration. People who get most of their information from the mainstream media, which goes for the majority of the population, will thus be systematically fed biased information and half-truths about Islam from our universities, which have largely failed to uphold the ideal of free inquiry. Unfortunately, this situation is pretty similar at universities and colleges throughout the West.

Six months ago criticism from European Union “legal experts” brought down the center-right Slovak government because it wanted to allow medical professionals the right to refuse to participate in abortions and other procedures violating their religious beliefs. After the elections the Slovaks got a far-left government coalition. The new government – 11 of the 16 ministers were members of the Communist Party – is inciting hatred towards ethnic Hungarians. And guess what? The EU does not care.

A quote from The Peninsula, Qatar’s Leading English Daily, 27 August 2006

Muslim circles have expressed alarm and disgust at the publication of a redrawn map of the Islamic world in a journal closely linked to the US armed forces.

After the Polish plumber in France, one of his countrymen almost made it to Denmark in the middle of August: the Polish paperboy. Until the politicians got involved, and some unemployed Danes were put to the job instead.

Following the MI5 exposure of a gigantic home-grown Islamic terrorist plot in early August and the rapidly approaching integration of Romanian and Bulgarian territories into the EU, the British public have begun to demand a tougher policy on immigration. In a poll conducted for the Sunday Times, it was revealed that “half the population has serious doubts that allowing foreigners to settle in Britain is good for the country.” The key findings on the public’s view of immigration were as follows:

1. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
‘Immigration is generally good for Britain’
Agree: 43%
Disagree: 45%
Neither: 10%
Don’t know: 2%

A quote from the Brussels newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws [Belgium’s largest daily], 25 August 2006

“The horror line” is how train conductors refer to line 124 between Brussels and Charleroi. For years now it has been controlled by ruthless gangs of youths. [...] “There are incidents every day. One conductor has been beaten up 33 times already. None of us has the courage to check the tickets. Asking someone for their ticket is asking for a beating”, say half a dozen train conductors who are testifying anonymously for fear of being fired by the NMBS [Belgian Rail], the [state owned] national railway company. [...]

The situation has been tense for years, but for the past six months many conductors have been refusing to emerge from the driver’s cabin and leave the train to the gangs. “It’s a pity for the passengers, but we are fed up.”

A quote from Jack Wheeler in To The Point News, 24 August 2006

I was thrilled to hear about The Heroes of Malaga – British passengers on a Monarch Airlines flight from Malaga, Spain to Manchester, England on August 16 who refused to fly until two Moslems were taken off the plane. Malaga is on the Costa del Sol, Spain's Sun Coast. This is August and it is really hot. Everyone on the plane is wearing t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops – except these two guys, who are dressed in winter coats and speaking Arabic. To their eternal moral credit, some moms and dads decided they were not going to risk the lives of their children (and their own) for the sake of political correctness, and walked off the plane.

According to article 1 of the Belgian “Anti-Racism Act”, discrimination is “each form of distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference, which has or may have as its aim or consequence that the recognition, the enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social or cultural sphere or in other areas of social life, is destroyed, affected or restricted.” Advocating discrimination “on the grounds of someone’s so-called race [so-called, because races do not exist according to the politically-correct politicians in Brussels], colour, descent or national or ethnic origin” is a criminal offence.

The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) is a British organisation that wants to spread “liberal democracy” across the world through an interventionist policy. It posits that the United States and the European Union – under British leadership – must “shape the world more actively” and, to this end, “[maintain] a strong military with global expeditionary reach.” The HJS Principles are supported by eminent British journalists, intellectuals, politicians and military men, such as Gerard Baker, assistant editor of The Times, Prof. Vernon Bogdanor of Oxford University, Colonel Tim Collins, the commander of the First Battalion Royal Irish Regiment in Iraq in 2003, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, Jamie Shea, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble, Michael Gove MP, the Shadow Minister for Housing, David Willetts MP, the Shadow Education Secretary, and others.
 
The HJS manifesto “The British Moment: The Case for Democratic Geopolitics in the Twenty-first Century,” written by a group of eight young academics based at Cambridge University, has just been published by the London think tank The Social Affairs Unit (SAU). The authors argue that it is time for Britain to “reclaim the noble tradition of liberal interventionism.”