Perhaps it is not intrinsically that Metro is so horrible but that many of the people who use it are particularly horrible, and most of the bus drivers are surly.
* US has done a better job because Muslims are still a very small percentage of the population.
A very small minority assimilates better than a big one does. In some European cities, Muslims are the MAIN minority. Also, ultra-liberalism of EU tries to make whites assimilate to diversity than other way around.
Also, US has less culture and history than Europe. It’s easy to ‘assimilate’ to eating Big Mac and watching Hollywood movies if that has indeed become the essence of American Culture and identity.
If black population had been 1%, who knows? They might have melted into rest of America.
But being much bigger, assimilation has been difficult.
More Muslims that US has, more Muslims will assert themselves and assimilate less.
Also, Neocons certainly didn’t assimilate well into the GOP base. Had they done so, people like Boot wouldn’t be throwing a fit because many white conservatives don’t want to be bossed around by Jewish conservatives who make up less than 1% of conservatives.
One thing for sure, Israel hasn’t done such a great job in assimilating Palestinians. Walls seem to keep going up on the basis that assimilation is futile.
* Their website sucks, the tap webaite sucks. You can not reload money quick, takes time and its way outdated. I complained about this 5 years ago and site still a dump. MTA is overrated it claims to save money, but at 100$ monthly pass is not worth it, driving short and long distances is way cheaper and time saving.
* The bus service is better in Downtown LA; in south LA, the time between buses can range from 20 – 30 minutes apart. Most drivers are very rude, but some are quite nice.
I’ve seen people tell a sob story to drivers, and ride a few stops for no cost; yet, as a disabled rider, I was chastised when the idiot driver couldn’t count change properly. Or when I didn’t understand his “ghetto English.” The rail in SoLA can be taking your chances riding among drug dealers, users, and the general population of the mentally ill. Overall, the buses serve the area well, but riding them can be a nightmare. They’ll let almost anything ride the bus.
* I love the trains, they are very reliable and save so much time over walking, the busses on the other hand, not so much, a 15 minute ride plus a half hour wait equals might as well have walked. Plus, I’ve seen a few drivers who almost ran over a few pedestrians with walkers just because they were in a bad mood. Blowing horns in the faces of the elderly is a very common practice amongst metro drivers, especially on Wilshire blvd in Koreatown where of course, nobody knows how to drive. I can’t tell you how many times people have tried to run me over in the cross walk when I had the walk sign and therefore, the right of way.
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Max Boot tweets: “Problem in EU is failure to assimilate Muslim immigrants. US has done better job, but Trump attacks alienate Muslims & threaten security.”
* So the solution for Europe is more Muslim immigration, to show we care. That will solve the problem of Islamic terrorism in Europe.
If more Muslim immigration does not work in stopping Islamic terrorism, it is the fault of Europe for not caring enough about the needs of its new Muslim residents, or for acting as if terrorist outrages might be the fault of Muslims rather than the fault of the white European power structure.
* Maybe Boot could explain how Stalin would do a better job of assimilating immigrants?
* Uncle Joe had his solutions for recalcitrant minorities:
Kenneth Christie, Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy (2002)
Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonians (1940-41): 85,000 deported, of which 55,000 killed or died
Baltics executed during reconquest (1944-45): 30,000
Postwar partisan war
Lithuanians: 40-50,000 k.
Latvian: 25,000
Estonians: 15,000
Richard Overy, Russia’s War (1997)
Deaths resulting form ethnic cleansing operations (Chechens, etc) in WW2: 231,000
Ethnic operations during the Great Terror (1937-38): 247,157 deaths, of which 111,091 were ethnic Poles.
* Yep, clearly the best thing to do with people who will murder you if you anger them is to get as many of them as possible to come to your country.
* Their first principle is to prevent nationalism for Europeans while supporting it for Israel. All explanations for all events must conform to this priority.
* The problem in Israel is its failure to assimilate its Muslim citizens.
* Most Belgian people are extremely politically correct Liberals and do not bash Muslims like Donald Trump does, yet their security was still threatened by Muslim extremists. How would Max Boot explain this?
* Too bad Boot didn’t say he would have voted for Hitler over Trump. Then he would have been declared persona non grata, and we would never have to listen to him again. But no, he only said he would have preferred Stalin to Trump. So not only did he not get deported to a political Siberia, he is still treated as someone whose opinion matters.
* US has done a better job because Muslims are still a very small percentage of the population.
A very small minority assimilates better than a big one does. In some European cities, Muslims are the MAIN minority. Also, ultra-liberalism of EU tries to make whites assimilate to diversity than other way around.
Also, US has less culture and history than Europe. It’s easy to ‘assimilate’ to eating Big Mac and watching Hollywood movies if that has indeed become the essence of American Culture and identity.
If black population had been 1%, who knows? They might have melted into rest of America.
But being much bigger, assimilation has been difficult.
More Muslims that US has, more Muslims will assert themselves and assimilate less.
Also, Neocons certainly didn’t assimilate well into the GOP base. Had they done so, people like Boot wouldn’t be throwing a fit because many white conservatives don’t want to be bossed around by Jewish conservatives who make up less than 1% of conservatives.
One thing for sure, Israel hasn’t done such a great job in assimilating Palestinians. Walls seem to keep going up on the basis that assimilation is futile.
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“The Daily Mail has a story about a study showing blonde women have higher IQs than brunettes or redheads. Note they reference the 1980 ASVAB and that they dropped black and hispanic women from the results.”
Daily Mail: Data for the study came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) – a national survey of people who were between 14 and 21 years old when they were first interviewed in 1979.
In 1980, participants in the NLSY79 took the Armed Forces Qualification Test, or AFQT, which is used by the Pentagon to determine the intelligence of all recruits.
The overall AFQT score is based on word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, math knowledge and arithmetic reasoning.
In 1985, all participants were asked, ‘What is your natural hair colour?’
To eliminate any bias in the IQ tests caused by ethnic and racial differences, Jay Zagorsky from Ohio State University dropped all African Americans and Hispanics from the analysis, reducing the sample size to 10,878 white, females.
The findings showed that blonde-haired white women had an average IQ of 103.2, compared to 102.7 for those with brown hair, 101.2 for those with red hair and 100.5 for those with black hair.
* I’ve never been to Belgium, but I was shocked at the footage of the arrest a few days ago. I could not understand why the reporters and officials were so jubilant that they made an arrest. What I saw looked like failure. A major European city now appears to have a large section of it occupied by hostile foreigners. Watching the police effect the arrest was like watching US troops in Fallujah. Rather than feel good about the arrest of a terrorist I was left feeling Belgium has a lot of work left to clear out that hornet’s nest.
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* EU elites main concern now will be to tamp down any natavists reaction to this latest carnage. they will be on the lookout for any neanderthals walking about with a club. obviously, maintaining the same vigilance in vibrant quarters is not necessary.
* In the Aeneid, there was a Trojan named Laocoon who said that the Trojan Horse was probably a weapon designed to destroy Troy. For his truth telling, the goddess Athena, who favors the Trojans, sends snakes at Laocoon, which strangle and kill him and his two sons.
The Trojans thought that criticizing the idea of taking in the Trojan Horse would lead to personal ruin, so they went along with the idea, which led to the annihilation of their whole polity.
Needless to say, the parallel with our contemporary situation is apparent. There will be plenty of snakes who will be ready to strangle us for speaking out, in order to encourage others to keep quiet and do what is expected of them.
* I felt sickened by this, once again, murder of innocent people in public places. I was especially rattled by the 2 baby strollers (one showed what appeared to be a slumped-over toddler; and an adult body covering another smaller body (all seemed dead); and the other stroller seemed to be empty but it was so smoggy, that I couldn’t tell. The crying and wailing was awful. This was all the first footage I saw on CNN after 9 a.m. EST.
Now, maybe this one dead toddler’s photo should be shown to the world just like the drowned toddler last summer? Dead babies are dead babies, but this one was killed by murderers. So, one of you gifted computer mavens, find that footage of the baby stroller (had a canopy) with the slumped-over toddler and post to the world. How long will it be o.k. for foolish westerners that ordinary people are killed since elites have their own jets and don’t take subways/buses/trains, and live in Whitetopias and gated communities?
Close the fracking borders. Don’t let European male citizens return from MENA anymore. Develop a stealth surveillance system. Immigration is obviously not a plus…or there will be more dead babies.
* Is it worth making the obvious point that Islamic terrorism is close to overwhelming the capacity of the police and security services to contain it? Belgian is a warning to the rest of Europe.
I read a couple of years ago in a Belgian paper a breakdown of how much its costs to monitor even one youth with frisky ideas; it was clearly unsustainable given the rising numbers.
The Economist noted last year that active terror suspects in Belgian are likely greater in number than the total number of Belgian intelligence officers and that it takes up to 60 agents to track a suspect.
Clearly proactive new thinking is needed – sweeps of Molenbeek; exile for Syrian returnees; licensing of mosques; a ban on Qatar and Saudi financing etc. – but it is hard to imagine European governments doing this. France has failed even to cancel the passports of suspect dual citizens.
Either European leaders discover some testicular fortitude or leaders will arise who will do the job – and the Davos liberals will not like that.
* Buzzfeed: One Belgian counterterrorism official told BuzzFeed News last week… virtually every police detective and military intelligence officer in the country was focused on international jihadi investigations.
“We just don’t have the people to watch anything else and, frankly, we don’t have the infrastructure to properly investigate or monitor hundreds of individuals suspected of terror links, as well as pursue the hundreds of open files and investigations we have,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said.
* When a city has to make videos like that, it’s already on the way out.
* Sanders just called for more intelligence, better intelligence, and more vigilance.
In other words, a socialist just called for more spying on U.S. citizens and more shredding of constitutional rights as opposed to merely exporting the problem.
* Rod Liddle: It was only a matter of time before Brussels got the suicide-bomb allahu akbar treatment, as the Belgians knew full well. Part of the city – especially Molenbeek – is a cesspit of Islamic extremism. The authorities have been content to let such areas fester and until recently the police were noticeable by their absence. Quite aside from the Isis-inspired suicide bombers, a whole crescent (suitably enough) along the north-west seaboard of Europe has proved fertile ground for the Arab European League, a violently anti-Semitic and anti-western Islamist movement which has attracted scant attention, despite its typically vile programme. From Lille in the south, via Brussels, Antwerp, The Hague all the way to Rotterdam, whole towns and suburbs have Muslim populations in excess of 40 per cent. Political parties which have opposed this colonisation (such as Vlaams Belang) are excluded from government and denied airtime.
One assumes it will be London next. Again. And the terrorists will be home-grown – from Tower Hamlets or Luton or Kirklees. Indulged at an early age in their adolescent and narcissistic sense of victimhood. We will be told, when the atrocity happens, that they were ‘radicalised’ by something or someone, as if their espousal of Islamism had been imposed upon them extraneously. Another nonsense, along with all the other nonsenses we are fed in order to placate that section of the Muslim community which doesn’t necessarily want us all dead yet.
* Until recently Belgium was a low crime society where the worst the police had to deal with was cheese theft or such, so they are just not competent or equipped to deal with international terrorism. Imagine if Andy of Mayberry and Deputy Barney had to deal with ISIS.
* Trump is capitalizing, big time, nailing it. First we had the NYT commentariat sounding like the iSteve commentariat. Now we have a presidential candidate. In a few months, there is every chance we will have a president. When we do, the world will change, and not before time.
* Ted Cruz bashing Trump for saying his NATO comments of yesterday AS IF NATO has done any damn thing to stem Muslim terrorism.
* Apparently Cruz has hired Elliott Abrams and some other neocons as his foreign policy advisers . His statement trying to invoke NATO into this event, and thus attack Trump, obviously reflects the neocon point of view.
* Trump should really start rallying police unions to support his build a wall/deport/cut immigration strategy. It would
-Give him union cred nationally
-increase his greatest strength (National Question)
-increase white male turnout for him
-change the dynamic on immigration restriction–suddenly deep blue democrat groups are supporting his policies
A few smart police unions could do this. I think the NYC police union would be a great one to kick it off—just start listing off the percent of crimes done by illegals coupled with the costs of anti-terrorism activities by the force.
* I think they are trying to get Trump elected so we can find out that he really is Hitler.
* I think their goal is the age old islamic goal of conquering all of Europe. That is the prize of prizes. They’ve had pretty good success. They held onto parts of Iberia for 700 years. They occupied Eastern Europe for over 400 years, and still occupy Constantinople and its surrounds. Recently they successfully tore away Kosovo from Serbia and created a new muslim state inside Europe.
These attacks on Europe are showing just how weak Europe has become and it must give great encouragement to the tens of millions of muslims who seek to dominate Europe. They will continue to migrate and continue to setup their separate communities. Why would they assimilate into a culture that is dying when their culture will eventually prevail?
At first I thought these attacks on Europe were foolish because the muslims still needed more years of massive immigration to get a stronger foothold in Europe. I figured these attacks might close down immigration and begin a period of repatriation.
But now I think these attacks are smart. They are showing just how weak Europe has become and serve as a reminder to muslims to not assimilate and continue working towards the day when they can take over. I cannot imagine the feeling that many muslims must be feeling now. To see their historic enemy, who still has superior military, financial and technological abilities, become so weak and feeble that he is unable to stop what is happening must be surreal. If one were religious I could see how they could feel that God is indeed on their side.
* I imagine being seen to carry out big spectacular attacks in Europe helps their recruiting operations. But it seems very unlikely to end well for Muslim immigrant communities in France and Belgium.
* One of life’s ironies is that yesterday in France, the government unveiled a multi-million euro ad campaign against …. islamophobic violence. The Front National alone pointed out the contrast between two extremely violent attacks (committed at least in the name of Islam) and the “need” for this campaign.
As we ominously watch European cities like Brussels and Paris beleaguered by a growing population of homegrown radical Islamists, we must ask what our government is doing to prevent the United States from following the same trajectory. As noted a number of times, our immigration from countries infected with radical Islam has doubled in recent years, totaling over 1.6 million from 2001-2013.
According to a new analysis from the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), this trajectory has grown sharply just over the five most recent years. Counting all of the green cards issued to foreign nationals of predominantly Muslim countries between FY 2009 and FY 2013 alone, the subcommittee found that 680,000 individuals have been granted legal permanent residence in America. That is a larger number than the population of our nation’s capital.
This coincides with census data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies, which estimates a 415,784 net increase in the population of nationals from predominantly Muslim countries living in the U.S from 2010-2014. If net population growth, which is mitigated by deaths and emigration grew by that much, it makes sense that the initial migration numbers have been much higher. One could only imagine what the numbers would be had Marco Rubio gotten his way and successfully passed the Gang of 8 immigration bill.
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If Trump is upsetting to delicate Jewish sensibilities, how come Israelis love him? Maybe Trump is only upsetting to wimpy spoiled Jews. Cucked Jews are upset by Trump. Real Jews, aka Israelis and Orthodox Jews, love Trump.
If Israel wants to kick out its Arabs, do you think Donald Trump would try to stop them? Do you think Israelis who chant “Death to the Arabs” fear Donald Trump?
Politico: This might be the most surprising poll from a wild, unpredictable 2016 campaign: One in four Israeli Jews would vote for Donald Trump.
The real estate mogul does not have a coherent position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, except to break with decades of Republican orthodoxy and announce that he would be “neutral.” His GOP rivals repeated that line endlessly, hoping it would blunt Trump’s rise in the polls. It didn’t.
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His campaign, run in the style of an authoritarian strongman, has earned him sharp criticism from American Jews, the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. And his backers include a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who hopes Trump will “rehabilitate” Hitler’s image, a statement that ought to give pause to anyone in Israel. Indeed, the big question looming over this week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee convention is just how many delegates will walk out during Trump’s speech.
Yet, a recent poll found Trump was by far Israel’s favorite GOP candidate, and the second-most popular overall. A plurality even thought he would be best at “representing Israel’s interests,” better than Hillary Clinton, with her decades of advocacy at the highest levels of government.
Those numbers could rise further still, after a spate of positive coverage in Israel’s most widely read newspaper, Israel HaYom, owned by billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. After months of scant coverage, the shift is a sign that Adelson—a major force in both Israeli and American politics—is reluctantly embracing Trump.
All of this presents a major dilemma for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has worked for years to align Israel with the GOP. The party’s presumptive nominee is now being spurned by the same establishment figures, men like Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who make up Netanyahu’s “base” in Washington. Trump has no emotional attachment to Israel. And his success has upended the long-held belief that Republican voters care deeply about a candidate’s position on Israel.
In the United States, Trump has scrambled the political map, shattering the decades-old alliance between social conservatives and the Republican economic elite. In Israel, the confusion could become even more acute. Trump has already violated some of the tenets of the “special relationship.” And while his tough-guy persona and hostility toward Muslims have earned him surprising support from Israeli conservatives, his ascent is also a source of unease for policymakers: It creates a schism between an Israel that needs to work with Trump, and American Jews who despise him—and it could end up undermining the marriage between the GOP’s pro-Israel foreign policy elite and the broader Republican electorate.
“The government is in a bind,” says Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat and adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Barak. “Trump in this respect is so unpredictable. If I were advising Netanyahu, or indeed if I were Netanyahu himself, I would shut up for a few months.”
…His negative comments about Muslims don’t hurt him in Israel, either. “The Israeli public is getting everything through the Israeli media in Hebrew, so it’s not like they see everything,” says Tal Schneider, an Israeli political analyst. “They don’t grasp the entire candidate, they just see his anti-Muslim sentiment, and then they say to themselves, ‘ah, obviously we know that, because we live with the Muslims here.’”
Dr. Camil Fuchs, a well-known pollster who worked on the survey, says party affiliation also played a role in the findings. “Clinton is viewed as cooler to the Israel issue” because she’s a Democrat, he says. “Anything Republican is seen as better for Israel.”
…The umbrella organization for Reform Jewry, the largest community in the United States, accused him of “sowing seeds of hatred and division in our body politic.” Jewish commentators from across the political spectrum describe his rallies as “Nuremberg-esque” and accuse him of inciting violence. His views on Israel are barely a tertiary concern; the criticism is about how Trump’s campaign undermines social and political norms…
Trump did endorse Netanyahu before the 2013 election, calling him a “winner,” the highest praise in the mogul’s vocabulary. But Trump’s candidacy appears to have cooled their relationship. Trump announced with much fanfare in December that he would visit Israel after Christmas. Netanyahu, who has mostly kept silent on the election, quickly distanced himself from the candidate, denouncing Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Trump took the hint and cancelled his visit; Israelis suspect he harbors a grudge.
One Israeli journalist who covers Netanyahu half-jokingly imagines the dialogue at the first Trump-Netanyahu meeting: “Listen, you Jew, your slick ways aren’t going to work with this White House,” Trump might warn. “Stop those f**king settlements now.”
…Netanyahu might soon have little choice but to meet with Trump, so the mogul needs a new image amongst the Israeli public. Several observers pointed to the Chicago rally as a turning point: It offered a compelling narrative, a tough right-wing leader besieged by angry liberals, that would resonate with Israelis who resent their own left.
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JNS.org – The Torah reiterates, no less than 36 times, versions of the commandment to love the stranger as ourselves, for we know the heart of a stranger, as we were once strangers in the land of Egypt. The Exodus narrative is not just about the suffering and flight of the Jews, but it delivers a universal message about Jewish commitment to human rights and refugee protection.
HIAS was established 135 years ago to protect refugees — Jewish ones — who were fleeing the pogroms of Czarist Russia. HIAS, which always refers to itself as the “global Jewish non-profit that protects refugees,” is not searching for a new mission. We remain true to the original one of refugee protection. What HIAS has done is moved from its “Exodus” period of our first 120 years, in which HIAS focused on bringing Jews from oppression to freedom, to our “Leviticus” period, in which we fulfill Jewish values and assist refugees of all faiths and ethnicities based on our own Exodus experiences.
The changes to HIAS’s work are not just theologically motivated. They are based on the lessons of history, especially from the Holocaust period when HIAS, the Jewish community, and the world failed to protect the 6 million Jews who perished. The evolution of HIAS is about fulfilling our community’s promise that never again will we permit anything like the Holocaust to happen. What is the most effective strategy for doing this? By acting only when Jewish refugees are in danger, or by constantly advocating for the universal protection of all refugees? HIAS has chosen the latter path.
One reason we failed during the Shoah was that, at that time, the world had no internationally recognized right to flee and seek refuge. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol — heavily advocated by the Jewish community, Israel and HIAS — now provide us with the principles to help ensure that never again will refugees be pushed back into the hands of their persecutors.
We cannot protect ourselves by being only for ourselves. We can only protect ourselves by protecting and implementing universal principles of human rights.
In Washington and in meetings convened by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, HIAS advocates for the US government and the international community to respect the principles of refugee protection that arose from the ashes of the Holocaust. HIAS is already working on five continents to protect refugees of all faiths who have fled ethnic cleansing and other forms of persecution. In addition, we resettle 3,500 refugees each year through our U.S. network, primarily consisting of Jewish Family Service agencies. These partners, like HIAS, have decided to continue programs welcoming refugees even though most refugees whom they now resettle are not Jewish.
And, as you should expect, when there are refugees who are Jewish, HIAS is still there to make sure they receive help. This year, HIAS continues to bring Jews from Iran, the Middle East, Ukraine, and other parts of the former Soviet Union to safety and freedom.
With the largest number of refugees and displaced persons since the Second World War, HIAS’s mission is as relevant as ever. In 1881, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was established to help refugees find welcome, safety and freedom. HIAS has not strayed from that path. Today, HIAS does not help refugees because they are Jewish. HIAS helps refugees because we are Jewish.
Our bubbes would be proud.
Mark Hetfield is president and CEO of HIAS.
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If you find snakes in your bedroom, do you hate the snakes or do you hate those who put them there?
From JTA: Jewish groups expressed shock and anger following a series of attacks that left at least 34 dead in the Belgian capital.
Kenneth Bandler, director of media relations for the American Jewish Committee, linked the attacks to the slaying of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in May 2014.
“What began with the jihadist fatal attack on the Jewish Museum nearly two years ago has now reached the airport and metro,” he wrote in an email about the Tuesday morning attacks in Brussels.
Two explosions at Zaventem Airport, including one by a suicide bomber, killed at least 14 people, and was followed by an explosion at the Maelbeek metro station, where another at least 20 died, the Het Laatste Nieuws daily reported on its online edition.
Mehdi Nemmouche, a French national in his 30s who is said to have fought with jihadists in Syria, is currently on trial in Brussels for the May 2014 museum shooting.
“This is yet another shocking, appalling and deadly attack on innocent Europeans by radical terrorists,” European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said in a statement. Kantor called the attacks “shots at the heart of Europe” that he said should galvanize counterterrorist actions.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, in response to Belgium’s participation in the U.S.-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, said his organization is “united in prayers at this hour with the families of the victims and the injured.”
Goldschmidt called the attacks, whose perpetrators have not yet been publicly identified, the “latest act of war of Islamic fascism against the capital of Europe,” adding: “As in the biblical story of Esther, which will be read in all the synagogues later this week, evil can and will be destroyed only by recognizing it and fighting it.”
Sources from a Belgian intelligence agency said the attacks may have been carried out as revenge for the arrest Friday in Belgium of Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French Islamist whom authorities suspect had a key role in a series of deadly attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November. An unnamed intelligence source told the Het Laatste Nieuws daily that the attacks must have been planned a long time ago but may have been carried out earlier than planned to retaliate for the arrest.
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From Breitbart: Billionaire and 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told Breitbart News on Tuesday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview that in his estimation, the terrorist attack in Brussels, Belgium, proves terrorists are winning the war against the Western world. The Islamic State, or ISIS, has taken credit for the Brussels attacks.
“The terrorists are totally winning,” Trump said in the interview that lasted more than 30 minutes. “The terrorists are making us look like fools.”
Trump continued by noting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—the Democratic presidential frontrunner who Trump is most likely to face in the general election, assuming he can seal the nomination in the next few months—is likely to be significantly negatively impacted by the rise of terror on the world stage.
“The terrorists will cause Hillary Clinton to lose the election,” Trump said. “She’s weak on borders. She’s weak on crime. She’s weak on anything having to do with controversy other than controversy with herself. She’s weak on the police. She’s weak on anything having to do with strength. Hillary is so weak on the borders, and so afraid to talk negatively about protecting our people, that it will end up costing her the election in my opinion.”
Trump said his previous warning, in an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, that Brussels was in danger is why he’s winning in the presidential election.
“It’s one of the reasons I’m leading in the polls by so much,” Trump said.
Trump also bashed the New York Times for mocking him—which it did back in January, over that Bartiromo interview—for making the Brussels prediction.
“The New York Times wrote an article because the New York Times doesn’t have a clue,” Trump said. “That’s why they won’t be in business too much longer. I call them ‘the failing New York Times.’ They wrote a mocking article, and so many people have called me about the New York Times article being so wrong. Brussels is a disaster. Brussels is a tinderbox. Brussels is a place I went to years ago—it was one of the most beautiful cities in the world and totally safe. Now, it’s catastrophic what’s happened to it. Many, many people are saying I was right about so many things. So many things.”
When asked how the United States prevents this type of attack—and prevents the devaluing of western and U.S. culture by installing pockets of non-assimilated people like the community in Stockholm, Sweden, that now is called “Little Mogadishu” from popping up—Trump quadrupled down on his call for a temporary ban on all Muslim migration.
“By not allowing the people in,” he said. “That’s how you prevent it, not allowing the people in. There has to be a moratorium. We have to find out what’s going on. Every city you look at, you take a look at Paris, you take a look at—the police don’t even go into the areas, the police are afraid of the areas. Look at the case of this fugitive. He was the number one fugitive in the world, and he was living right next to where he lived. All of those people knew that he was there and nobody turned him in.”
In Sweden, just this week, 60 Minutes Australia news crews released footage of its trip to Stockholm’s Rinkeby district where young men used a car to run over one of the cameramen’s feet. Police didn’t want to accompany the news crew into the neighborhood, either, as a local political activist walked the television crew through how the migrants from East Africa have a particularly difficult time assimilating into Western culture.
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From Breitbart: Dutch Party For Freedom (PVV) leader and prominent counter-Islamist campaigner Geert Wilders has spoken exclusively to Breitbart London in the aftermath of this morning’s major terror attack and has lamented it is just the beginning of growing Islamist violence.
Mr. Wilders said: “I fear that we ain’t seen nothing yet. According to Europol 3,000 to 5,000 European jihadists, who went to Syria to fight in the ranks of IS and similar terrorist groups, have meanwhile returned to Western Europe. Some of them hid among the hundreds of thousands of Islamic asylum seekers that entered Europe from Asia and Africa.
“Two of last November’s terrorist in Paris had fought in Syria. So had the terrorist who, last August, attempted to attack the high speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. So had the two terrorists who, in January 2015, massacred the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo. So had the terrorist who, in May 2014, shot four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels”.
Belgian police have recently said at least 90 returned fighters from the Islamic State are living at liberty in Brussels, many of them in the infamous Molenbeek neighbourhood. European Commission insider Hermann Kelly told Breitbart Radio this morning he was concerned so many lived just miles from the political capital of the European Union.
Mr. Kelly said: “This is amazing to me that these people can kill people abroad, come here, and then walk free in the centre of Brussels”. On this, Mr. Wilders remarked: “Returned Syria fighters are a huge threat. They are dangerous predators roaming our streets. It is absolutely unbelievable that our governments allow them to return. And it is incredible that, once returned, they are not imprisoned.
“In the Netherlands, we have dozens of these returned jihadists. Our government allows most of them to freely walk our streets and refuses to lock them up. I demand that they be detained at once. Every government in the West, which refuses to do so, is a moral accessory if one of these monsters commits an atrocity.
“The government must also close our national borders. The European Union’s Schengen zone, where no border controls are allowed, is a catastrophe. The Belgian Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, the mastermind of last November’s bloodbath in Paris, travelled freely from Belgium to the Netherlands on multiple occasions last year.
“This is intolerable. Open borders are a huge safety risk. Our citizens are in mortal danger if we do not restore control over our own national borders”.
Speaking earlier today Mr. Wilders lamented that commuters were killed in “cold blood” and said “The cause of all this bloodshed is Islam. We need to de-Islamize the West. That is the only way to safeguard our lives and protect our freedom”.
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