No Sympathy for their Policies

I’ll start off by pointing out that I sympathize with the regular people who lost family and friends in the Brussels attacks.

That said, I do not sympathize in the least with the European government policies that have led to this. Hillary Clinton once told Pakistan that if they kept snakes in their backyard, the snakes would eventually attack them. She could say the same thing to Europe today.

Belgium has called out its military on the streets of Brussels, once in November and now again. But what other actions do you see that you’d expect from a country that appears to face a major threat? None whatsoever.

Further, most jihadists are Belgian citizens; so constitutional protections apply to them! Thus, Belgium’s hands are tied severely even though it contributes more jihadists relative to its population than any other European country. It can’t do much even about the known returned jihadists, again because they are citizens. Notice how they could attack Brussels international airport within days of the arrest of one of the Paris attack masterminds. As that Indian army blogger I wrote about recently, (retired) Lt.Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain, wrote:

“That demonstrated the depth of capability of planning and execution of the terrorist sleeper networks in Western Europe.”

Didier Leroy, a Belgian terrorism researcher, points out that Belgium has never done much even about known causes of radicalization:

“I think that money from Gulf countries has done a lot of damage in Moroccan mosques in Belgium on that level. Some mosques have been more and more under the sway of Saudi imams or of Moroccan-Belgian citizens who have been trained in and funded by Saudi Arabia and who are spreading Wahhabi doctrine.”

The Lt. Gen. also points out the monumental stupidity of Europeans:

“I did find it odd that European society was willing to tolerate a lot even as rabble rousers among immigrants many a time held the core local society at ransom with their demands such as introduction of shariah system.”

For all their talk of openness, notice how Europe has treated Turkey, the one Muslim country that became secular right at the beginning:

“If Turkey and Turks are not accepted as European it is far too much to expect North Africans, Arabs and Afghans to do be accepted.”

He also points out that:

“Muslims in India feel more comfortable than in any other part of the world where they live as minority.”

So he wonders if Europe should learn from us. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that happening: those sanctimonious, holier-than-thou Europeans would rather die.