The Jewish community of Flanders is essentially apolitical, mostly Hasidic. They have no desire to participate in the general society, merely to live their traditional lives as they wish, conducting businesses relating to the diamond industry mostly. They do not use the schools, they are not running for office, they wish complete separation in safety.

That is fine with all but the most retrograde members of the VB.

The Muslim presence is a huge crime problem, and virtually all the street crime in Belgium is committed by Muslims. It is no wonder that civilized men and women want them gone.

Don't we ship military stuff thru Antwerp?

Can't have sabotage.

What that cretin from the university of Liège (that's something like a linguist or an ethnic studies specialist from Harvard in US terms) doesn't mention is that the VB is also the party that opposes the crippling taxes typical of the decaying European welfare state, the lax anti-crime policy and the general culture of death and permissiveness. Hmm, sounds a lot like a European version of the Republican party.

The main difference is of course that European nationalism is ethnic, while American nationalism (because that's what it is, nothing more, nothing less) is based on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But then again, Europeans are the "native Americans" of their own continent. They don't like to be put into reservations.

Ever notice how media reports on small conservative or rightist parties often highlight some connection, no matter how distant or feeble, with Nazis? Yet when writing about small (or not-so-small) leftist parties, their often far stronger and more recent connections with Communists are usually ignored.

This is the political party that they banned on a technicality, which then came back under another name, right? Now *that* was smart.

why do people always refer to nazis as being on the right side of the political spectrum ? national *socialism* , get it, *socialism*, like the union of soviet *socialist* republics, get it, *socialist*.

i had a funny argument with an oxford graduate; she referred to thatcher as a fascist. i asked her if she knew what the word meant; it took awhile but eventually she admitted she didn't; i got out a dictionary and read the definition then asked if that sounded like thatcher, and to her credit she agreed it didn't; then we did it.

I go crazy when people think that Nazi's were right wingers -- what part of the word Socialists don't they understand? Yes, Nazi's did hate communists, but only in the way heretics hate "the true faith" and vis versa.