Vlaams Belang Joins with BNP, Other Eurofascists in New Anti-Islam Group

Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 1:16:48 pm PST

Here we go again. Now the Belgian Vlaams Belang party is openly allying with the British National Party, in a new group opportunistically named “Cities against Islamisation.”

And remember: the BNP’s white supremacist leader Nick Griffin, a friend and ally of David Duke, has explicitly detailed their plan to attach themselves to the anti-jihadists, in order to gain political legitimacy.

Nice company that Gates of Vienna, the Center for Vigilant Freedom, Brussels Journal, Fjordman, and Atlas Shrugged are running with. Will they distance themselves from the Vlaams Belang now, or are they OK with the British National Party too?

If I had to predict, I’d bet they’ll be OK with the BNP. It’s easier after the first step.

SEVERAL European far-right parties announced a new organisation aimed at fighting the “Islamisation” of Europe.

The group dubbed “Cities against Islamisation” was presented to the media in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp by Filip Dewinter, head of the far-right Belgian party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) along with Austrian FPOE leader Heinz-Christian Strace and Robert Spieler of the regionalist Alsace First group.

Parties from Britain (the British National Party), Denmark, Germany and Italy were also represented at the launch of the group which has a road-sign-style crossed-out mosque as its logo.

Thirty members of the new organisation then set off on a walk around areas of Antwerp with a high immigrant population.

(Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.)

UPDATE at 1/17/08 2:17:14 pm:

Photos from the press conference announcing the new group.