Report: Quran Recited at Belgian Parliament by Imam with Call for Killing, Kidnapping of Jews
A verse from the Quran that explicitly calls on Muslims to kill and take Jews captive was reportedly recited last week inside the walls of the Belgian parliament building.
The Jerusalem Post reports an imam was responsible for the recitation on Tuesday.
The outlet said the Quran excerpt is verse 33:26 from the Al-Ahzab Surah (chapter). It reportedly translates to:
And He brought down those from the People of the Book who supported the enemy alliance from their own strongholds, and cast horror into their hearts. You ‘believers’ killed some, and took others captive.
Within the Quran, Jews are referred to as the “People of the Book.”
The event was not organized by the parliament, but rather at the initiative of Hasan Koyuncu, a member of parliament within the Socialist Party and vice president of the Francophone Parliament in Brussels The Friends Of Brussels Association were also involved.
MP Theo Francken, critical of the organizer of the event, posted on X, formerly Twitter, “This man invited that imam. He is deputy speaker of parliament. Can he stay that way?”
Secretary of State of the Brussels Capital region Nawal Ben Hamou reportedly left the event during the incident.
File/General view of the facade of Chamber of Representatives, one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Israel’s ambassador to Belgium Idit Rosenzweig commented on X that she is “absolutely horrified” over the incident.
“He could have chosen anything else, not a frightening symbolic message to anyone who knows the Quran, straight from the parliament podium… in Brussels’ parliament, a city with 18,000 Jews who are already experiencing increased antisemitism and fear.”
Read the Jerusalem Post report in full here
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Paris Police Shoot and Kill Sudanese Man Attempting to Attack People With a Butcher’s Knife
French police shot and killed a Sudanese national who had attempted to attack passengers on a Paris tram with a butcher knife in the early hours of Saturday morning.
A 40-year-old man from the nation of Sudan dressed in a North African djellaba robe and carrying a “notebook with Arabic inscriptions” in one hand and brandishing a butcher’s blade in the other was shot and killed by Paris police at around 3 am on Saturday morning, Le Figaro reports.
According to police info, the Sudanese man had asked a fellow traveller on the train for a lighter and when he was refused, the 40-year-old took out a meat cleaver from his Moroccan dress and began attempting to attack the passenger.
The passenger was able to evade the attacks and quickly notified the police. The Paris prosecutor’s office said that officers discovered the African “holding a butcher’s blade in one hand and a notebook with Arabic inscriptions in the other”.
While police ordered him to throw down his weapon, the Sudanese man refused to comply and only responded with “words in Arabic”.
Officers initially used tasers on the knifeman, however, he was undeterred and attempted to rush officers from the railway brigade with the knife. At this point police opened fire on the attacker, firing off around twenty rounds, one of which shot the Sudanese man through the head, killing him on the spot.
The local prosecutor’s office has opened two investigations, including one for “attempted intentional homicide against a person holding public authority” against the deceased attacker and another against the officers who killed the knifeman for “intentional violence by police officers leading to death”.
The incident came just days after another knife attack at a Paris train station, during which a Malian man stabbed three people. Although he reportedly confessed to wishing to “attack French people” and had previously expressed anger about France’s colonial history in Africa, authorities have chosen not to treat the attack as an act of terrorism.
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Surely They Didn’t Lie: Somehow, Despite Record Levels of Immigration the UK Is in Recession
The UK’s Conservative government has made abundantly clear for the past 13 years that it can’t cut immigration as its voters want it to because migration grows the economy. Yet curiously, despite the largest wave of immigration to Britain ever, the economy is contracting. Mystifying.
The British economy entered recession last year, having been stagnant in the second quarter, declining by 0.1 per cent in quarter three, and 0.3 per cent in the fourth. These figures are “challenging” for the government, notes the Financial Times because the government has an election coming and had hoped to offer some tax cuts to try and distract voters from the astronomical tax increases they’ve been squarely behind for years.
Of course, the global economy is in a tight spot and governments across the West are battling against damaging headwinds. But the British government has an answer, a shortcut to global growth: importing people. Indeed, they’ve been so bold in this policy of growing the economy by keeping the borders firmly open, that the United Kingdom is now experiencing historic levels of arrivals.
While the headline-grabbing but comparatively inconsequential matter of illegal boat migration has consumed time and attention, changes by the Conservatives to the law to make arriving in Britain legally so much easier that in the year to June 2023, 1.2 million new people came to the country. Adjusting for those who left in the same period, that’s a net population increase of 672,000 in just a year.
As things stand, the population of the UK will soar by 10 per cent by 2036. Of the 6.6 million new people in that period, half a million will be natural growth — having more people born than die — while the remaining six million will come as a result of international migration.
That this is government policy is particularly consequential because it is precisely the opposite of what the governing Conservatives promised to deliver for many years. Elections were fought and won on the promise of reducing migration “to the tens of thousands” a year — instead, it is now a million more people every 18 months.
It was impossible to keep this promise, the government said, because growing the economy is the most important thing and overrules other considerations. Fair enough, you may say: Chancellor (Finance Minister) George Osborne expressed this in his infamous words back in 2017, when in a mask-slip moment he revealed top Conservatives never planned to follow through with cutting immigration in the first place. They just kept these feelings to themselves at election time. He said:
[N]one of [the Cabinet’s] senior members supports the pledge in private and all would be glad to see the back of something that has caused the Conservative Party such public grief… The damage to the economy from seriously reducing work visas was judged too severe by an expert migration committee; the impact on community relations of further limiting family reunion visas was seen as unpalatable; and few thought we were taking in too many refugees.
The present chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been perfectly clear that this is also where his feelings lie. In 2022 he told the BBC that migration has a “very positive” effect on the economy and so was here to stay. Pro-government newspaper The Telegraph said of his position then that: “Jeremy Hunt is relying on a surge in net migration to more than 200,000 people per year to help deliver economic growth … The increase in migrant labour will help to buttress Britain’s economy as Mr Hunt imposes higher taxes on earnings, jobs and investment.”
Last year, Hunt claimed the government has “a plan to remove the barriers to stop people working in the UK”, and that this is what people who voted for Brexit truly wanted. There were angry noises about this from Brexiteers at the time, but still, the juggernaut rolled on.
As recently as this month, the savants at Bloomberg predicted “soaring UK migration” would boost the British economy so much it would deliver the government a “windfall”. Seems we got a recession instead, though, and now those hoped-for floor-scrap tax cuts won’t be possible.
It is, of course, inconceivable that politicians would lie to voters. That, therefore, leaves the question, what went wrong? With Britain experiencing the highest levels of immigration in recorded history, and the government absolutely sticking with the fiscal orthodoxy that migrations grow the pie, the economy should surely be booming.
Is it possible that without the over three million extra people the country gained purely through migration in the ten years from 2013 to 2023, the economy would have been sent back to the stone age?
The focus on GDP as a measure of an economy’s success masks part of the problem, that while the UK entered a technical recession at the end of last year, individuals in the economy have been ‘in recession’ for much longer.
While the economy was still growing, GDP per capita — that is to say, how much wealth there is per person in the economy — has been falling and falling. In 2023, GDP per head fell 0.1 per cent in quarter one, 0.2 per cent in quarter two, 0.4 per cent in the third, and 0.6 in the fourth quarter, much faster than the national rate.
This trend may appear to suggest, at least, there are diminishing returns from importing more and more people into the economy.
To grasp how extraordinary the chasm between the Westminster political bubble — which has no party that could conceivably enter government in the near future that wants to reduce immigration — and the British people, consider a poll commissioned last year about public feelings on levels of arrival. A healthy majority, larger than voted in favour of Brexit for instance, support the notion that there could be a “temporary five-year pause on all further immigration into the UK so that the UK can better absorb the immigration of the last few decades.”
In that gulf between London and the country, it could feel like there’s an opportunity for an insurgent political party to make some political hay. The Conservatives are so low in the polls, after all, the party — one of the oldest in the world — may cease to meaningfully exist by Christmas. Watch this space.
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Netherlands: Police Attacked, Cars Torched as Rival Eritrean Migrant Factions Riot at The Hague
Riots between rival factions of Eritrean migrants broke out in the Dutch city of The Hague on Saturday evening as police officers were left injured and cars were set on fire outside a conference centre.
The home of the war criminal trying International Criminal Court saw war zone-like scenes brought to its doorstep as supporters of the leftist government of Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki gathered in the Opera Hall Centre in The Hague’s city centre on Saturday evening.
A group of anti-government Eritreans gathered outside of the building in protest, however, it quickly devolved into open riots, with the anti-government faction smashing the windows of the hall and setting it on fire.
Riot police were dispatched to help protect the building from further damage and the pro-government Eritrean group within the conference centre were escorted from the building under police escort, Der Telegraaf reports.
Cashes between the two groups ensued and the riots continued to rage late into the evening, with several police and fire brigade vehicles being set ablaze and other privately owned cars being burnt during the altercations. Several officers and riot police were injured during clashes with the Eritrean mob, who took to pelting officers with stones.
The chairwoman of the Dutch Police Union (NPB) Nine Kooiman described the riots between the two groups of Eritreans as “devastating and too idiotic for words” and Ramon Meijerink of the ACP police union called them “completely unacceptable” while praising police officers for their “courage to step forward under difficult circumstances.”
The local fire brigade was initially prevented from putting out the fires because of the violence from the rioters. A spokesman said: “We initially received a report of a police car that was on fire. We had to withdraw because the situation was not safe. Later, a police van was also on fire at the hall complex.
“There we got stuck and were pelted, damaging vehicles and forcing us to withdraw. We then placed fences on the windows of our vehicles so that we could still extinguish the fires.”
It is not the first time the Netherlands has witnessed riots break out among rivalling groups of Eritrean migrants, with last May seeing a large brawl in the city of Rijswijk, forcing riot police to respond. Similar conflicts among Eritreans have been witnessed in Sweden and in Germany, with dozens being arrested in Stuttgart in September after clashes broke out at an Eritrean cultural festival in the city.
According to government estimates, there are currently approximately 27,000 Eritrean nationals living in The Netherlands, the vast majority of whom are typically young military-age males who often flee the East African nation to avoid being conscripted into the armed forces.
The mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen said the violence against police officers was “horrible and unacceptable,” adding: “The Public Prosecution Service has set up a Large-Scale Investigation Team to prosecute perpetrators of these disorders. I would like to ask everyone who can contribute to the rapid detection of the perpetrators of this unacceptable and unnecessary violence to cooperate.”
Geert Wilders, the anti-mass migration populist who is in talks to become the next Dutch prime minister, said of the riots: “The Netherlands is really sick of it. Why is half the world allowed in here to tear down our country, fight mutual feuds, throw stones at police officers and set their cars on fire? I want to become the prime minister who finally puts things in order.”
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