Sputnik: Brussels was hit by street riots several times this month. Hooligans were robbing stores and destroying property. What is happening and who are these rioters?
Gerolf Annemans: These people are the young immigrants that we brought here, or we brought their parents here some 20 or 30 years ago. And this is the new generation and they are fed up with the European or Western values apparently, because they want their values to be put in place – the Muslim way of living. They terrorize their sisters to become “good Muslim women,” scarfed and everything, and they terrorize us – that’s my analysis.
We get these things because we didn’t take care of the way we brought in immigrants – first, bringing them in, and then, after they were here – not taking care of their assimilation in our society. We were too weak, so they now have the idea that our society should become their society and that we should “Islamize” and this will be done with violence, and they are now testing out their capacity to respond to any police force, or anything that could defend our values and our society.
Brussels: Muslim migrants riot for the third time in two weeks https://t.co/UtibOrguJO pic.twitter.com/G3EqYvcgpI
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) 25 ноября 2017 г.
Sputnik: Do you think that the idea of making Belgium a kind of a “melting pot” of cultures didn’t work?
Gerolf Annemans: No. The multicultural society, as it was named by our political adversaries, the multicultural society is failure. It became disaster. It never worked, it will never work. And what we have now, because we’re not putting assimilation on the table as the only alternative, what we have now is the fact that we have to accept that there will be at least two societies – theirs and ours.
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Sputnik: You said earlier, that many of the rioters in Brussels were sons of those who came to Belgium decades ago. Is there anything that can be done now to deal with “culture clash” problem – education, perhaps, community work etcetera?
Gerolf Annemans: We did all that before, for 30 years, [spending] billions of euros before Belgium and France went into it – social health, social welfare, assistance in the neighborhoods and around them. It didn’t help. It won’t help. The only thing that we can hope is that people will wake up in time and that they vote for politicians that will take care of this in a clear way. I think it can be solved by political authority, that, of course, is at the steering wheel for police, for social welfare, for everything, and for education also, but a political force that is clearly saying, “You will not become in any way members of the Muslim society – not in the West, nor within the West, in Brussels, or anywhere – you will become Western, European Flemish or French-speaking Belgians. And there is no alternative and you’ve got to adapt to that.”
This generation will be lost if we don’t address it in a proper way – in a firm and right-thinking way, not “right-wing” in a political sense of the word, but [showing] in front of them a road, that leads to integration and assimilation into Western society. The signs that they are getting now is that, first of all there is a “multicultural society,” which means that everyone does what he wants, or there is “we respect your cultural identity” or “we promote and accept any of your Islam beliefs.” Even radical preachers are hosted here by our government, by our political authority, so we need another political authority. That’s why a party like mine exists, that’s why groups like ours exist – to design new political authority in the West.
🆘‼️👮🔥 #Belgium: Tonight again unrest and riots by migrant youths in #Brussels! Shops are looted and cars destroyed. Riot Police in large contingent with water cannon on site. pic.twitter.com/cUvWiTEl9Y
— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) 25 ноября 2017 г.
Sputnik: Brussels police were criticized by the owners of the stores, which were looted by rioters on November 11. Victims claim that nobody came to their rescue as they were phoning the police for over an hour. Do you think some blame should be put on the police in this case?
Gerolf Annemans: Not on the policemen, since some of them voiced in the Belgian press clearly that they had orders not to get into these riots. The problem is also because we have socialist left-wing political authority, mainly built – and it’s not only socialist – but also liberals, also Christian democrats, that are all “sold” to this huge migrant Muslim minority. “Sold” in a sense that they need their voters and if you go during election time, if you drive around St. Joost or Molenbeek, then you see the political advertisements in the shops and everywhere from all the parties with candidates – Muslim candidates that impose their rule. So, the rule here in Brussels is Muslim rule, and not anything else.
So, again, let me explain, that the problem of Belgium is the political authority, and the way this political authority – for over 30 years – dealt with criticism. They put aside those who criticized the non-integration of Muslim minorities, they were set aside like my party – set aside as “fascist”, “racist,” “racially-inspired,” etc., but the real part of the matter, is that there is a cultural problem, and we’ve got to send out political signs that this should end, and that the end should mean assimilation in our culture, and this clear sign was put aside as marginal, and dangerous. So, political authority in some way became a perverse motor for all the things that are happening now.
