Here’s a good piece (although it could have used some grammar checking) on the situation in the Islamic confrontation zone known as Belgium, by Michael Radu: Belgium, Islam and the Boomerang of “Multiculturalism.” (Hat tip: dennisw.)

In the last few months, under the pretext of the murder of an Arab by a deranged old Fleming, something called the European Arab League (LAE) started organizing “patrols” in the city, to “watch” over the so- called “racist” police – echoes Al Sharpton’s anti – police militancy in the Big Apple.

The LAE founder, Abu Jahjah, is the poster boy of everything that is wrong and dangerous in Western European Moslem communities – and with European legal, political and cultural inadequacies to answering that danger.

Born in Lebanon, 31 of age, Abu Jahjah arrived in Belgium at beginning of the 1990s, claiming political asylum, due to alleged problems with the southern Lebanon’s dominant terrorist group, Hizbollah. His application rejected, he took a simpler way to stay -married a Flemish woman, got his Belgian citizenship and, promptly, divorced.

Then, at taxpayers’ expense, he studied political science at the (formerly prestigious) Catholic (!?) University of Louvain, where he became a Socialist Party activist and union militant.

From that fashionable political base, he founded , first, a pro – Arab group, El Rabita, later transformed into the LAE. Asked why he choose Antwerp for his activities, his answer was that he was seeking “new cultures” … But, according to the French newspaper Liberation, he sees the city as a “bastion of European Zionism” whom he seeks to transform into a “Mecca of pro-Palestinian action.” And, not surprisingly, LAE’s finances remain a “mystery.”

Abu Jahjah’s immediate goal, in addition to preventing the local police from dealing with the enormous criminality among immigrant Moslems, is to “simply demand our rights to housing, employment … while preserving our Arab – Moslem identity. ” All that because, as quoted in Liberation, December 16, 2002, the State “must accept the reality of multiculturalism.” That, presumably, means veils for girls, rejection of “pagan” science studies, taxpayer – paid special meals and vacations for Ramadan, lectures in the Quran, and, specifically, making Arabic an official language , in addition to Dutch, French and German. All these are the logical conclusion of “tolerance”, “multiculturalism” and cultural suicide policies of the Brussels government.

Not surprisingly, the people of Antwerp, including, increasingly, its Jews, find the anti – Moslem, anti – immigration (same thing in that context) Flemish nationalists of the Vlaams Blok – some 30% of local votes the last elections, and growing – more and more attractive - at least in the opinion of Nathan Ramet, leader of the local Jewish community.

And what of the “moderate” Moslems? Noureddin Maloujmaoun, leader of the Executive of Belgium’s Moslems pretends that he criticizes Jahjah’s methods, but, as usual there is always a but, shares his demands