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Almost two weeks ago, a 17 year old Belgian, Joe Van Holsbeeck, was murdered by two Muslim youths who wanted to steal his MP3 player. The news on this can be found The Brussel Journal.

But wouldn't you know it, the police, in making their inquiry, did the following:

Joe Van Holsbeeck, the 17 year old boy who died after being butchered with a knife by North African youths in Brussels Central Station last week, was buried today. Muslim immigrants distributed home baked bread during the funeral. Joe was savagely stabbed to death Wednesday a week ago when he refused to hand over his MP3 player to the North Africans. Immediately after the assassination the police inquired whether Joe had made any “racist remarks” whilst been mugged, but Joe and his family and friends were not racists. On the contrary.

Joe’s parents opted for a memorial service instead of the traditional funeral Mass. The parish priest of the Catholic St. Elisabeth Church of the Brussels borough of Haren told Belgian radio this morning that the parents wanted to ensure that “immigrants would not feel excluded at the funeral service.” The priest did not hand out the Holy Eucharist to the mourners, but the immigrant neighbours of the Van Holsbeeck family distributed home baked bread. This, the priest explained, was “a sign of fraternity” between Belgians and immigrants.

How about that. Not only did the police opportunistically ask if the teen "provoked" his murderers, and the parents bent over backwards by making this some kind of a multiculti memorial service (and the Belgian parliament also went the appeasement route). If you ask me, that is desecration of the worst kind against the innocent.

Joe’s killers have not been caught yet. Some doubt whether they ever will. The North African youths who slaughtered a 16 year old black boy in a similar fashion last January, have not been found either. Yesterday Senator Jean-Marie Dedecker, a member of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt’s Liberal Party (VLD), wrote in an op-ed article in De Standaard, a major Brussels newspaper, that the Belgian police, when confronted with criminal immigrants, all too often “look the other way in order to avoid being accused of racism.” Dedecker called Joe’s murderers “thugs.”

The maverick Senator was reprimanded by Verhofstadt and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael because he had ignored the government’s appeal for “calm and serenity.” According to Verhofstadt Dedecker is “inciting hostilities.” The senator replied that “One has to have the courage to say that these murderers are scum.” He feels this is the only way to counter Belgium’s main opposition party (which is also the country’s largest party), the Flemish secessionist and “islamophobic” Vlaams Belang (VB). Another leading Liberal, Herman De Croo, the Speaker of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, said Dedecker is a “poujadist” and a “populist” – two qualifications which are often applied to the VB as well.

Yes, courage is a very important thing to have, and the Senator did the right thing to speak up.

There's been a protest attended by at least 80,000 people in Belgium following this ghastly murder and the acts of appeasement that accompanied it. We must hope that, just like with the case of the murder of Ilan Halimi, this too will be the beginning of some much needed protests by the citizens of the European countries that have been sold into dhimmitude by their phony leaders. It's important, including if we're to protest against the political correctness that's been a sorry staple in many of these incidents.

Update: the news now is that the murderers were Polish gypsies living illegally in Belgium. One of the two has been arrested, the other, the one with the knife, is still at large. And most strangely enough, as the BJ reports, it was the Belgian justice ministry that first said that the culprits were North African.

What I don't get though is, if this happened almost two weeks ago, how is it that it took so long for the exact news to come out? And seeing this e-mail the BJ got, I have to wonder, is someone at the justice ministry trying to be insulting?

That aside, what's really angering about this case is that it serves as the perfect excuse for moonbats to use to smear innocents as "islamophobes". As told here:

Yesterday Laurette Onkelinx, the far-left Belgian minister of Justice, said that “those who have wrongly stigmatised an ethnic community will have to search their own consciences.” It is noteworthy, however, that the Vlaams Belang, the main opposition party and one with a firm stance on immigration and law and order, kept a low profile during the past two weeks. Its leaders hardly commented on the Van Holsbeeck case. Nevertheless, it looks as if the Van Holsbeeck case will turn into an opportunity for the leftwing Belgian regime to crack down on so-called “racists” and “islamophobes.” Today, in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, Glenn Audenaert of the Brussels federal police comments: “Now I understand how anti-semitism was able to creep into our homes in the thirties.”

Seeing this, I can only wonder if this confusion was caused deliberately.

Others on the subject include CDR Salamander, Conservative Culture, Voce Libera, Mr. Mustard, The Pink Flamingo Bar & Grill, Planck's Constant, Discarded Lies, Nordish Portal, Done With Mirrors, Arab World Analysis, Gateway Pundit, Power Line.

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