Euro-Craven Belgians Cowering Before Riots

The Brussels Journal has one of those key sentences that says volumes about Euro-cowardice, Euro-fecklessness, and plain Euro-Stuck-On-Stupid. Since there are no photos and only one Reuters report on the riots breaking out in Brussels during Ramadhan for three years now, it is evident that the MSM doesn't like to cover instances of Muslim brutality, violence, and lawlessness---it makes Bush look good in their benighted vision. But those audacious Belgian ragheads are beginning to forget about boundaries:

Around 8:30pm last night violence erupted again in Brussels, the capital of Europe. The riots centered on the Brussels Marollen quarter and the area near the Midi Train Station, where the international trains from London and Paris arrive. Youths threw stones at passing people and cars, windows of parked cars were smashed, bus shelters were demolished, cars were set ablaze, a youth club was arsoned and a shop was looted. Two molotov cocktails were thrown into St.Peter’s hospital, one of the main hospitals of central Brussels. The fire brigade was able to extinguish the fires at the hospital, but youths managed to steal the keys of the fire engine.

During the month of ramadan Muslims are required to fast during the day and are only allowed to eat after sunset. As Esther pointed out “What should be noticed about the riots is that they start after sunset. Besides the fact that they start after dark, it also gives the rioters enough time to break their fast and enjoy the traditional family meal. Sunset is around 7:30pm.” Tuesday’s and Monday’s riots began around 8:30pm.

Last night the police arrested 45 rioters. One of them will be prosecuted for assaulting the owner of a shop. Philippe Close, the chef de cabinet of the Mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, said that the authorities would continue their efforts to defuse the situation in a peaceful manner, but he announced that the police will be less complacent in future, "since we cannot tolerate that this [Marollen] neighbourhood falls victim to a problem from outside the neighbourhood."

Yes, they are actually going to prosecute one of the forty-five arrested rioters! Qu'est-ce qui'l sont brave!

And as long as they burn down and riot in their own neighborhoods, that presumably is "tolerable."

Mayor Giuliani broke the back of crime in NYC when he started arresting all those guilty of the least public infractions, like jumping subway gates or washing windshields without permission. Suddenly, being soft on crime as the Dems in New York had been for decades was understood to be a cause of crime. Now of course, the Dems believe being soft on terrorists will just cause them to go away and leave us alone. Always wrong, but never in doubt, those Dems.

But Giuliani had a backbone and still does, and notochords are in short supply in soft-on-crime Europe!