Belgien: "Var femte moské en säkerhetsrisk"

 

 

 

Som en liten komplettering till gårdagens artikel om

fiaskot för "avradikalisering" av jihadister.

Men också apropå det enfaldiga Sverige som

låter Qatar bygga Skandinaviens största salafist-

moské i det olyckliga Malmö....


 

Belgium: 119 Islamic Institutions Investigated for Extremism in 2016

by IPT News  •  Aug 28, 2017 at 11:44 am

https://www.investigativeproject.org/6572/belgium-119-islamic-institutions-investigated-for

 Belgian authorities investigated 58 mosques and 61 Islamic associations in 2016 in an effort to counter the spread of radical Islamist ideology, according to the country's justice minister and reported by the Brussels Times.

 

The data suggests that one in five mosques in Belgium are a cause for concern among domestic intelligence services.
Mosques in Belgium attract inspections for various reasons, including imams who may be delivering radical sermons and for particular mosque attendants who catch the eye of security agencies. State authorities focus their efforts on threats related to "extremism, the radicalisation process and terrorism."

The country is increasingly targeted for terrorist attacks. On Friday, a man of Somali origin stabbed and wounded two soldiers in Brussels in an attack claimed by ISIS. He reportedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) during the attack. One of the soldiers shot the attacker twice, killing him.
According to Belgium's migration minister, the man was granted asylum in 2009 before acquiring Belgian citizenship in 2015.

Belgian soldiers regularly patrol Brussels after major Islamist terrorist attacks striking Europe, including Paris in 2015 and Belgium in 2016.
Last year, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for simultaneous terrorist bombings targeting Belgium's airport and its Metro system, killing 32 people.

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Läs också

Belgien - där jihadismen blomstrar

 

Uppenbarligen har de belgiska myndigheterna

funnit sambandet mellan salafistmoskéer och

terrordåd. Och börjat agera...

Terrorexperten Peder Hyllengren skriver i GP om
svensk flathet mot jihadisterna:
Extremismen möter för lite motstånd i Sverige
 

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PS Bilden ovan är från Bataclanmassakern i Paris

och har bara indirekt samband med artikeln....

 

 

 



Belgien - där jihadismen blomstrar

 

Just nu har världens uppmärksamhet av

förklarliga skäl koncentrerats på Belgien.

Men, ärligt talat, vad skiljer islamiseringen av

Molenbeek från islamiseringen av Rosengård, 

Bergsjön eller Neukölln ?
 

Antisemitism och islamism blomstrar över

hela Västeuropa.

Varhelst du finner en salafistmoské finner

du snart en Kalifatcell...

Intressant nog tycks de stater i Central-

och Östeuropa som för 25 år sedan kastade

av sig kommunismens ok mera motstånds-

kraftiga mot islamismens pest.

 

 

How Radicalization Was Allowed to Fester in Belgium

by Abigail R. Esman
Special to IPT News
April 19, 2016

 

These are the numbers, the hard facts:  Twenty months. Three terrorist attacks. One hundred seventy dead. And almost all the killers grew up in or at one time lived in Belgium.
Squeezed into a corner bounded by France, Germany and the Netherlands, tiny Belgium has produced more jihadists than any other Western country (relative to its population) since 9/11. The most recent attacks, at the Brussels Maalbeek metro station and Zaventem Airport on March 22, killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens more. On Nov. 13, gunmen from the Brussels district of Molenbeek killed 130 men and women in Paris at a soccer stadium, a restaurant, and concert hall.  And in May 2014, Mehdi Nemmouche, a returnee from Syria, shot and killed four people at the entrance to Brussels' Jewish Museum. Since then, the media has been filled with reports on Belgium as a "new hotbed of terrorism," while politicians have looked at one another blankly, asking "why?"

But the other hard fact is that there is nothing especially new about any of this. Belgium has been a center for Islamic terrorism for more than 20 years, most notably in the aftermath of a series of 1995 and 1998 bombings in France. Those attacks, which targeted, among others, the Paris Metro and the Arc de Triomphe, were committed by the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, an Algerian militant group affiliated with al-Qaida, many of whose members lived in Belgium.

Indeed, most of the earlier Islamist terror attacks in Belgium and France were committed by Algerian GIA members, including Farid Melouk, who plotted, among other targets, to bomb the 1998 Paris World Cup. Sentenced to nine years in 1998 for his involvement in terrorism, Melouk is believed to have known and influenced Chérif Kouachi, one of the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris last January.
Only later, with the growth of al-Qaida after 9/11, did recruiters turn more to Moroccan immigrants like Abdelhamid Abbaoud, the mastermind of the Nov. 13 strikes, and Khalid Zerkani, believed to have served as a mentor to the current generation of Belgian jihadists.

But not all these 1990s jihadists were strictly GIA: in the aftermath of the 1995 Paris attacks, for instance, during a raid on the home of one Belgian GIA member, police discovered among the weapons "training manual," dedicated to Osama bin Laden. There have also been reports of computer disks containing al-Qaida manuals found in Belgium around this time, but they remain unconfirmed.
But most notable is a report that Belgium repeatedly did little to combat the threat. Rather, according to journalist Paul Belien, Belgian authorities "made a deal with the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian soil in exchange for immunity from attack."
If the deal was real, it did nothing to protect Belgian Muslims from radicalization. Those include converts like Muriel Degauque, who in 2005 earned the dubious distinction of being Belgium's first female suicide bomber when she blew herself up in Baghdad, killing five.

Moreover, the radicalization of Belgian Muslims has become nearly a local institution, through national political groups like Sharia4Belgium and, previously, the Arab European League (AEL). Founded In 2000 by Lebanese immigrant Dyab Abou Jahjah, the AEL spread briefly beyond Belgium to France and the Netherlands before eventually petering out around 2006. But in its short life, it stirred pro-Islamist sentiment among many Belgian Muslim youth, helping to pave the way for Sharia4Belgium, and its recruiting of warriors for ISIS.
Alongside both of these movements has been the one-man operation of Khalid Zerkani, who is known to his followers as "The Santa Claus of jihad," the New York Times reports. Zerkani, Belgian federal prosecutor Bernard Michel told the Times, "has perverted an entire generation of youngsters," including various Molenbeek residents who were involved in the Zaventem killings, and Abdelhamid Abbaaoud, the Paris attack leader. Other Zerkani disciples have joined the Islamic State in Syria. On April 14, Zerkani, who was arrested in 2014, was sentenced to 15 years in Belgian prison for jihad recruiting. But – despite ongoing arrests in Molenbeek and other regions throughout Belgium – his influence, like that of Sharia4Belgium and the relics of Belgium's terrorist past, continues to walk free on Europe's streets.

Timeline of Jihadist Events in Belgium
1990s – Armed Islamic Group (GIA), an Algerian terrorist group, forms cells in Belgium and France.
1995
July 25 – GIA sets of bombs at the Saint-Michel station of Paris RER, killing eight and wounding 80
August 17 – bombs set by GIA at the Arc de Triomphe wounds 17
August 26 – GIA bomb found on railroad tracks near Lyon
September 3– car bomb at Lyon Jewish school wounds 14
October 6– explosion in Paris Metro wounds 13
October 17– gas bottle explodes between Musee d'Orsay and Notre Dame stations of Paris metro, wounding 29
1998
March 6 – Belgian officials storm a Brussels residence, arresting Farid Melouk, suspected leader of Belgian GIA and organizer of Paris attacks.
Six other GIA operatives are also arrested, all linked to various Paris bombings.
March 22 – Belgian police uncover GIA plot to bomb the World Cup soccer event in France that June. During a raid in Brussels, police uncover explosives, detonators, Kalashnikovs, and thousands of dollars in cash. Again, Farid Melouk is believed to be associated.
May 26 – Police raid homes in Brussels and Charleroi based on evidence found in a GIA safe house in Brussels earlier. Ten people are detained.
1999
May 15 – Farid Melouk sentenced to nine years in Brussels court.
2000
February – Dyab Abou Jahjah establishes the Arab-European League in Antwerp, declaring that "assimilation is cultural rape," and calling for Islamic schools, Arab-language education, and recognition of Islamic holidays. His goal is to create what he calls a "sharocracy" – a sharia-based democracy.
2001
September 11 – Al-Qaida hijackers plow commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; a fourth jet, believed to be headed for the White House, is downed by passengers who overtake control. About 3,000 people are killed. The event marks a turning point for Muslim extremism and the rise of Muslim terrorism throughout the West.
September 13 – Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian, is arrested in Belgium and charged with plans to bomb a US-NATO military base.
September 30 – Sixteen additional suspects are also arrested in what prosecutors call a "spider's web of radicals."
2003
October 1 – Belgian courts convict 18 accused terrorists with suspected ties to al-Qaida, including Trabelsi, who receives a 10-year sentence.
2005
November 9 – Muriel Degauque, a Belgian convert, blows herself up in Baghdad near a group of policemen, killing five.
2009
December – After uncovering believable plans for an attack in Belgium, Antwerp police arrest 10 men, charging them with membership in a terrorist organization. Most members of the alleged terror cell are believed to live in Antwerp. Some are Dutch nationals.
2010
March – Fouad Belkacem establishes Sharia4Belgium.
November – Belgian officials arrest 10 members of a local terrorist cell suspected of planning attacks locally.  Counterterrorism officials admit they are facing growing radicalization among the country's Muslim youth, in part through the work of Sharia4Belgium, which seeks to transform Belgium into an Islamic state.
2012
September  15 – 230 radicalized Muslim members of Sharia4Belgium are arrested during anti-American riots in protest against the film "Innocence of Muslims." In 2015, officials would discover that 70 of those arrested had joined the jihad in Syria.  "The list [of those arrested then] reads today like a passenger list for the Syria-Express," one investigator told Dutch TV program Een Vandaag.
2013
October 3 – Nizar Trabelsi, having served out his term in the 2001 bombing plot , is extradited to the United States. He is charged  "with conspiracy to kill U.S Nationals outside of the United States; conspiracy and attempt to use weapons of mass destruction" and providing material support to terrorists.
2015
January 7-9 – In Paris, a rash of terrorist attacks take the lives of 17 people, including most of the staff of controversial satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and four Jews at a kosher market outside the city. Cherif Kouachi, responsible for the Charlie Hebdo killings, had had earlier contact with Farid Melouk. The attackers all claim to be sworn to the Islamic State.
November 13 – Further terrorist attacks in Paris – at the Stade de France stadium, Bataclan concert hall, and several restaurants – kill 130 people and injure more than 350.  Most of the perpetrators come from (or have lived in) the Molenbeek region of Brussels, including suspected ringleader  Abdelhamid Abaaoud.  Abaaoud is also suspected of having been radicalized by Zerkani. ISIS claims responsibility.
November 14-early 2016 – ongoing arrests and investigations in Molenbeek lead to several additional arrests.
2016
March 15 – Police sweep down on a residence in Vorst, a section of Brussels, arresting four suspects believed to be planning an attack. A fifth, Algerian Mohamed Melkaid, is shot and killed while firing his Kalashnikov at the police. An ISIS flag is found at the scene.
March 18 – Saleh Abdeslam, the sole surviving member of the terrorist team that attacked Paris in November, is arrested in Molenbeek following a shootout.  Evidence found in the house in Vorst helped lead them to Abdeslam, who had been in hiding for 120 days, mostly in plain sight in Molenbeek.
His arrest leads to riots among Muslim youth in the district.
March 22 – Coordinated attacks at Brussels-Zaventem airport and the Brussels Maarbeek metro stop kill 32. Two of the suicide bombers, brothers Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, had been involved in planning the November Paris attacks; a third, Najim Laachraoui, is suspected as having made the bombs for both Paris and Brussels attacks. Laachraoui is also suspected of having had connections with Melkaid.
March 23-ongoing – Belgian and French police and counterterrorism forces continue to arrest terrorist suspects connected to either the Paris or Brussels attacks, all of them linked with Belgium-based terror cells. One suspect, Osama Krayem (aka Naim Hamed), a Swedish national, admits having backed out of plans to bomb a second metro station, and agrees to cooperate with Brussels police.
April 14 – Kahlid Zerkani receives the maximum 15-year sentence in Brussels courts. The sentence, delivered on appeal, is an increase over the previous sentence of 12 years.
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Abigail R. Esman, the author, most recently, of Radical State: How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy in the West (Praeger, 2010), is a freelance writer based in New York and the Netherlands.

Kalifatets finmaskiga nätverk över Europa



Kalifatets nätverk växer över Europa. Nu senast kan vi se hur
från Syrien återvända fransk-belgisk-svenska jihadister sam-
verkar kring terrordåd. Det finns uppenbarligen vapen och spräng-
ämne lagrade i flera länder och obegränsade ekonomiska resurser.

Hans Rustad på document.no kommenterar:

IS-nettverket – mer finmasket og foregrenet enn «man» trodde

Hans Rustad

11.04.2016 kl. 12.10 

             

Jo mer myndigheter i Vest-Europa lærer om IS-cellene, jo mer forstår de at er langt fra å «utslette» den som Francois Hollande sa.  IS-cellene inngår i et nettverk, men de kjenner ikke nødvendigvis til hverandre.
Salah Abdeslam har ikke kunnet si noe om Reda Kriket, som ble tatt i en forstad til Paris 24 mars, med et helt arsenal av våpen. Vi snakker kraftige våpen, maskingevær. Fire menn som settes i forbindelse med Kriket, ble pågrepet i Rotterdam og de hadde 45 kilo ammunisjon med seg, nok til å utstyre ti mann.
Men hva var det Kriket og hans menn planla? Det har etterforskerne ikke fått vite. Jihadister snakker ikke.
Både politi og medier forsøker å tegne opp kart over forbindelsene mellom de impliserte:

The scale of the Islamic State’s operations in Europe are still not known, but they appear to be larger and more layered than investigators at first realized; if the Paris and Brussels attacks are any model, the plotters will rely on local criminal networks in addition to committed extremists.

Mediene har en tendens til å overfokusere på arrestasjoner og navn. I stedet bør man spørre: Er det andre trekk som sier noe om IS modus operandi? Hvilke forhold er det som letter eller hemmer deres handlingsrom? Ett trekk går igjen: At terroristene kan utnytte Schengens frie bevegelighet til å krysse landegrensene. De eksisterer ikke lenger. Heller ikke EUs yttergrense eksisterer lenger fordi migrantene går rett gjennom. Flere av IS-operatørene kom som migranter, viser det seg. Denne kunnskapen er ikke lenger mulig å undertrykke. Spørsmålet er hva politikerne gjør med den.
Mohamed Abrini, som ble tatt fredag kunne bevege seg mellom Paris og Brussel.

But it also was a reminder of the ease with which the Islamic State’s operatives move across borders and the shifting roles that suspects play: According to prosecutors, Mr. Abrini was a logistician in the Paris attacks but was meant to be a bomber in the Brussels attack — except that his bomb failed to explode.

Det har gått opp for myndighetene at de ikke kjenner omfanget av IS-cellene i Europa, men det synes ganske klart at det er flere enn Paris-Brussel:

 
“Other Islamic State cells are highly likely to be in existence across Western Europe, preparing and organizing further operations, and awaiting direction from the group’s central leadership to execute,” said Matthew Henman, the head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London.

Myndigheter og publikum må forberede seg på at de vil slå til igjen. Kanskje flere steder samtidig. IS betrakter Europa som et krigsteater.

It adds up to a long road ahead in Europe for law enforcement and intelligence agencies but also for citizens who are having to learn to adapt to an array of new security precautions and more intrusive surveillance, especially in public places.

“We are not finished yet with the job of finding everyone who is in this big network of Paris and Brussels,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, the head of the French Center for the Analysis of Terrorism in Paris. “Every time progress is made, we add another few people to the list of people we are looking for.”

Men kunnskap er farlig. Den reiser spørsmål. Hvor mye vil europeerne finne seg i, hvis det viser seg at Schengen fasiliterer terror. Mot dem.

En av edderkoppene var predikanten Khalid Zerikani – fra Molenbeek – som rekrutterte minst 50 til IS.

“There are still many people involved who were part of the Zerkani network, who were convicted in absentia — at least five to 10 — and we don’t know where they are or what they might do,” Mr. Brisard said.

Zerkani er dømt to ganger. Spørsmålet er om folk i lengden vil finne seg i at dømte terrorister nyter godt av den samme milde strafferegime som vanlig kriminelle, med tidlig løslatelse og nye sjanser.

Zerkani rekrutterte både leder av Paris-angrepene, Abdelhamid Abaooud og Reda Kriket.

Kriket had Kalashnikov assault rifles, a submachine gun, pistols, ammunition and four boxes containing thousands of small steel balls.

Four men in touch with Mr. Kriket, who were arrested in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, had in their possession 45 kilograms of ammunition, according to the Dutch Public Broadcaster, NOS. That is enough ammunition for 2,500 rounds, which is enough to supply as many as a dozen gunmen with multiple magazines.

Hva og hvem Kriket og hans celle skulle angripe er uvisst. Cellene har ikke informasjon om hverandre. Det er standard prosedyre.

“The cells are kept quite separate,” said Claude Moniquet, a former French intelligence officer who now works in Belgium.

Ut fra det de vet regner politiet med at det finnes lignende celler i flere land enn Frankrike og Belgia.

“Other Islamic State cells are highly likely to be in existence across Western Europe, preparing and organizing further operations, and awaiting direction from the group’s central leadership to execute,” said Matthew Henman, the head of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London.

Hvis operasjonen overføres til Libya, sitter IS sentralt enda tettere på Europa.

Alissa Rubin og Eric Schmitt fra New York Times har snakket med et knippe av sikkerhetsfolk i flere europeiske land. De har revurdert sin oppfatning av hvordan de tror IS opererer i Europa.

Officials believed that the Islamic State had developed an overarching network of facilitators in Europe over the last few years to buy weapons, rent cars and reserve hotel rooms for teams of operatives who had previously traveled to, or were returning from, Iraq or Syria.

Det kan være kriminelle kontakter som er vant til å operere under politiets radar som utfører disse jobbene, eller personer som aldri har hatt befatning med politiet. Da er de vanskeligere å oppdage.

Eller – og dette er en teori de har kommet frem til i det senere – det er snakk om selvgående celler, personer som fyller flere funksjoner.

But after Brussels, Mr. Henman said, the thinking now reflects the belief that the operation may instead be made up of self-contained cells, with individuals who can perform multiple jobs as needed.

Det som skjer nå er at advarslene om hva som ville skje når Syria-krigerne vendte hjem, slår ut i full blomst. Advarslene ble av medier og eksperter behandlet som noe hypotetisk, og noe man kunne avverge.

Det viser seg å være en illusjon, og har det ikke vært det hele tiden? I det minste nå, etter Paris og Brussel, burde ingen ha noen illusjoner.

Tallene er «staggering».

Frankrike har sendt 1.8000 krigere til Syria og Irak, ifølge innenriksminister Cazeneuve. Belgia 450.

Det er disse som nå sendes tilbake.

Burde vi ikke skjønt det ? Hvordan kunne vi tro at disse skulle kunne avradikaliseres gjennom tilbud fra det offentlige?

 

Från Guantanamo til jihad i Belgien

 

 

Two former detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba were arrested by Belgian police in a counterterrorism operation targeting a recruiting network for al Qaeda in Syria.

They were arrested Wednesday night along with three others as they were about to break into a house to raise funds in the town of Hoboken, near Antwerp, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN.
“We have dismantled a serious recruiting network for Syria,” the official told CNN.

One of the former Guantanamo Bay detainees was Moussa Zemmouri, 37, a Moroccan national born in Antwerp, Belgian federal prosecutors announced Friday. The other was an Algerian identified as Soufiane A., who prosecutors believe spent time in Syria.
Both have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group and all five have been charged with attempted armed robbery.

Zemmouri was released from Guantanamo in 2005 and authored a book “Innocent at Guantanamo” after returning to Belgium. His case was featured prominently by the UK Muslim prisoner advocacy group CAGE, which has long maintained that he has no links to terrorism.
According to a 2003 detainee assessment file posted by the WikiLeaks website, Zemmouri was transferred to U.S. custody after he was detained by Pakistani police when fleeing Afghanistan after the beginning of the U.S. bombing campaign in autumn 2001.
The document alleged he had trained in the al Qaeda-sponsored Derunta training camp in Khost, Afghanistan. It said “sensitive reporting also indicates that detainee is a high-ranking member of the Theological Commission of the Moroccan Islamic Fighting Group (MIFG).”

According to the Belgian official, Zemmouri was put under observation after his return to Belgium. Belgian security services suspect he provided theological encouragement to several former members of the al Qaeda affiliated MIFG who left to fight jihad in Syria after they completed prison sentences in Belgian jails.

Belgian officials know of the identity of more than 300 extremists who have traveled from Belgium to join jihadi groups in Syria.

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Läs om den föregående aktionen mot jihadister i Belgien


Brysselterroristen gripen. Naturligtvis jihadist...

Mannen bakom terrordådet mot Judiska Muséet

i Bryssel för en vecka sedan har gripits i Marseille.

Det var en 29-årig tunisier med franskt pass,  

Mehdi Nemmouche.

Mannen har ett kriminellt förflutet. Senast dömdes

han till två års fängelse för väpnat rån 2006.

Han är också känd av polisen som våldsinriktad

islamist. Förra året gjorde han jihad till Syrien.

Nyss hemkommen från Syrien begår han

terrordådet i Bryssel, där han mördar fyra

judar.

Europas säkerhetstjänster har de senaste månaderna

börjat uppmärksamma det nya hotet från de tusentals

utländska jihadisterna i Syrien. Uppenbarligen tänker

många av dem återvända till Europa och fortsätta sin

terroristverksamhet.

När får vi nästa terrorbomb i Stockholm ?

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Europe Israel News

BBC



Iransk agent greps i Israel

 

Den belgiske medborgaren Alex Mans

greps den 11 september på Gen Gurion

Airport i Tel Aviv. Mans verkliga namn

är Ali Mansouri och han har skaffat sig

det belgiska passet genom att skilja

sig från sin iranska fru, gifta sig med en

belgiska och byta namn.

Ali Mansouri tillhör Pasdarans (Revolutions-

gardets) s k Al Qudsbrigad, som sysslar

med "särskilda operationer" mot Israel

och USA. Han har länge opererat

i Europa med Belgien som bas och

med sitt belgiska pass och namn

som maskering.

Nu sändes han till Israel för att

sätta upp en antal aktiebolag som skulle

fungera som täckmantel för iranska

underrättelse- och terroraktiviteter.

Israels skickliga säkerhetstjänst Shin Bet

spårade dock upp honom.

 

DEBKAfile

Jerusalem Post

CNN

Irans underrättelsetjänst

  

Judisk begravningsplats skändad under Rosh Hashana

 

Mitt under det judiska nyåret Rosh Hashana upptäckte

man att Bryssels äldsta judiska begravningsplats

i Uccle skändats.

En man som skulle besöka förfädernas gravar i en

krypta på begravningsplatsen gjorde den hemska

upptäckten.

Ett antal kistor från 1800- och 1900-talen hade släpats

upp ur kryptan och brutits upp. Flera gamla gravstenar

hade krossats. Benrester hade spritts över hela

begravningsplatsen.

En tjänsteman på kyrkogårdsförvaltningen spekulerade

i att gärningsmännen sökte efter smycken i kistorna...

Då det inte fanns något antisemitiskt klotter behandlar

belgiska polisen det som ett vanligt inbrott och skade-

görelse.

Mera om begravningsplatsen Uccle.

 

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EJP

CFCA

Salafist skulle "lära shiiterna frukta oss"

Fortsättning på

Salafist bränner shiamoské, mördar

imam i Bryssel

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Den gripne mordbrännaren har uppgett

i polisförhören att han är marockansk salafist

och vistas illegalt i Belgien. Han är i 30-årsåldern.

Mannens identitet är ännu inte klarlagd.

Hans syfte med våldsdådet var att lära

shiiterna att frukta sunnimuslimer...

Han anser bl a att aleviternas och shias motstånd

mot Muslimska Brödraskapets terror i Syrien måste

"bestraffas".

Mordbranden kommer enligt polisen att göra läget

mellan sunni och shia i Belgien ännu mera spänt.

Redan till helgen har shiamuslimerna utlovat stora

motdemonstrationer i Bryssel.

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n-tv

De Standaard

Salafist bränner shiamoské, mördar imam i Bryssel

Den shiitiska Riadmoskén nära Central-

stationen i Bryssel brändes ned under

måndagsnatten. Imamen Abdallah

Dadou omkom när han försökte släcka

branden. Ytterligare en församlings-
medlem ska vara allvarligt skadad.

Gärningsmannen är en salafist som an-

tände moskén med bensin. Han greps

på platsen och skrek salafistiska slag-

ord med anknytning till sunniterrorn i

Syrien. Han var beväpnad med en
yxa och molotovcocktails.
Shiamoskén uppges ha utsatts för
hotelser den senaste tiden från sunni-
extremister.

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9News:

"Police were unable to immediately name

the suspect as he lacked identity papers,

but authorities said the man described

himself as a Muslim born in 1978.

Authorities are investigating his motives

and whether he had accomplices.

An official at the mosque, Azzedine

Laghmich, told AFP the attacker was

"a Salafist" who sprayed petrol inside

the mosque before setting it alight

and shouting Sunni slogans on his

way out - cries related to the

conflict in Syria.

"All the eyewitness accounts said

so," Laghmich said"
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UPDATE 12.00
Brysselpolisen uppger på en press-
konferens vid middagstid att den
gripne gärningsmannen vid förhören
uppgett tre olika identiteter...
Polisen har dock konstaterat att
ingen av dem stämmer och att
mannen vistas illegalt i Belgien.
Han greps av församlings-
medlemmar i moskén sedan han
hotat dem med yxa och kniv.
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Bara 100 meter därifrån ligger den
stora salafistiska Assounamoskéen,
som har nära kontakter med extremisterna
i Sharia4Belgium, den belgiska avläggaren
av Anjem Choudarys rörelse.
***
Flera tidningar drar paralleller med
mordet på imam Abdullah el-Ahdi
i Stora Moskéen i Bryssel som
begicks 1989.
De tycks dock ha glömt att
imam el-Ahdi mördades av den
islamistiske seriemördaren
Abdelkader Belliraj, som mördade
två judar och flera moderata muslimer.
Belliraj avtjänar sedan 2009 livstids
fängelse i Marocko.

Märkliga skottdåd uan motiv ?

Under gårdagen begicks två uppseende-

väckande skottdåd i Europa.

Två medelålders män mördade några

slumpmässigt utvalda personer på

gatan och begick sedan självmord.

I belgiska Lüttich (Liége) angrep en marockan

en julmarknad med handgranater och ett

automatgevär. Fyra människor dödades och 

minst ett hundratal skadades. Senare hittades

även ett lik i mannens hem.

Nordine Amrani hade ett långt brottsregister

med bl a narkotika- och vapenhandel. Polisen

försäkrar att han inte hade några islamistiska

kopplingar och att motivet inte var terrorism....

Men vilket var då motivet frågar Islam in Europe ?

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Samtidigt sköt den italienske författaren Gianluca

Casseri ned tre senegalesiska gatuförsäljare i Firenze.

En populär fantasyförfattare och utgivare av en litterär

tidskrift skjuter även här några människor utan ett

synbart motiv.

Casseri tycks inte ha haft något politiskt förflutet

och inte varit inblandad i något kriminellt. Han beskrivs

som en enstöring som sysslade med sina böcker 

och tidskrifter. 

Casseris bästsäljare La Chiave del Caos

om en alkemist i Rudolf II:s Prag.

Antisemitisk fackföreningsledare hotar judiska barn...

Generalsekreteraren i det socialistiska belgiska

lärarförbundet Hugo Deckers avskyr Israel.

Det är han säkert inte ensam om.

Däremot är han förhoppningsvis ensam om

att avreagera sig genom att hota judiska

skolbarn till livet....

Efter Israels motstånd mot UNESCO:s tokeri

att göra den fiktiva staten "Palestina" till medlem

mailade Deckers den judiska tidningen Joods

Actueel :

"If this is the (Israeli) reaction, I would be

happy as union leader to bring the Jewish

schools in Antwerp in the news. I fear you

are going to scare".

Vad är det karlen säger ?

Om detta är den (israeliska) reaktionen, skulle jag

vara lycklig som facklig ledare att få de judiska

skolorna i Antwerpen i nyheterna.

Jag är rädd att du kommer att bli skrämd.

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Kan man upfatta det som något

annat än ett direkt hot om fysiskt

våld mot de judiska skolbarnen ?

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Chefredaktören kommenterar:

In his response, chief editor Michael Freilich said:

"This is yet another proof of the new anti-Zionist

antisemitism in which Jews over the world are

threatened and accused of actions on which they

have no control." 

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He continued: "We have said many times but will

repeat it: Jews in our country are Belgians, Flemish.

They have no influence on the situation in the

Middle East.They do not go to the army, pay

no taxes and cannot vote. Yes, they have an

opinion about the conflict, and like everyone

else they are free to express an opinion about

anything and everything, whether the military

action in Libya, the euro crisis or the situation

in the Middle East. We live in a free country.

To blackmail people because of their views

or because of their religion is totally illegal."

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"The reaction of Hugo Deckers is scandalous

and reflects very little respect for our

democratic values ​​and poor knowledge

about the difference between a religion

and a nationality," Freilich added.
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Fousesquawk
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Tillägg:
Den kraftiga reaktionen på Deckers
hotelser, inte minst från medlemmar
i hans eget förbund, tvang honom till
en lam påtvingad "ursäkt".
Joods Actueel svarade på det mailet:
You must recognize that your parallel is
completely in error, that your vague threat
against a Jewish school is frankly
scandalous and is a misuse of your position
with OCED, and you have set a poor example as
an important functionary.
You hold Jews responsible and bring the
Middle East conflict to Belgium.
In your letter, you neglect these errors.
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We are not looking for apologies or retractions.
Israel can withstand criticism as any democracy must.
We ask you to consider the consequences of your words.