Muslims Riot in Amsterdam and Brussels

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Muslims Riot in Amsterdam and Brussels

Muslim riots are leading Europeans to be less tolerant of their Muslim neighbors.

Muslim riots every night since October 14 have ravaged Amsterdam’s Slotervaart district. The riots are a response to the death of Bilal Bajaka, a 22-year-old ethnic Moroccan with extremist ties who was shot dead after repeatedly stabbing two police officers in the breast, face, neck and back. The riots “aim to drive the police from Slotervaart and turn the neighborhood into a new no-go area—yet another pocket of Eurabia on Europe’s soil,” the Brussels Journal reports.

These “no go” areas, officially known as “Sensitive Urban Areas,” or suas, are multiplying across Europe. The Brussels Journal states that these are areas “where the police no longer dare to venture and where Islamists hold sway.”

Another one of these areas may be developing in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the European Union. This past Sunday, Turkish youth demolished a local Armenian restaurant in Brussels causing the Armenian owner to flee for his life. Police only watched.

Also in Brussels, a mob of Turkish youth attacked a man standing outside the American Embassy. The man fled to the nearest police car. The frightened policewoman refused to let him enter her car, and the mob savagely beat him. It was not until it appeared that the mob would kill the man that she let him finally crawl into the vehicle.

Meanwhile, the Turkish quarter of Brussels is as ablaze with red crescent flags (not Belgian flags) as it is with Muslim riots.

With pressure from the riots mounting on Europeans in both Belgium and the Netherlands, Dutch politician Ehsan Jami has stated, “We have to be very clear with Muslim immigrants that we will not negotiate our [Western] values.”

It is not only the Dutch who are ready to stand up for their values. Seventy-one percent of Germans polled by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that they consider Muslims intolerant and 83 percent associated them with fanaticism. Muslim riots and a multiplying number of Islamic “no go” zones will only confirm these sentiments.

Watch for tension to continue building between traditional Europeans and their Muslim neighbors. For more information on the coming battle between Europe and Islam, read “Cathedrals vs. Mosques: Tremors of a Coming Conflict.”