Gerard Battens letter to the mayor of Brussels
Posted by Sitemaster on September 20, 2007
Gerard Batten, MEP, handing in the SIOE Petition to the mayors’ office.
Below is Battens letter to the mayor:
Gerard Batten MEP,
BD4 02M 105,
European Parliament,
Rue Vertz,
Brussels,
1047.
11th September 2007
Monsieur Freddy Thielemans,
Burgmestre,
Hotel de Ville,
Grand Place,
1000 Bruxelles.
Dear Monsieur Thielemans,
SIOE (Stop the Islamisation of Europe) Petition
Today I accepted a petition from Mr Anders Gravers, one of the organisers of the SIOE (Stop the Islamisation of Europe) campaign which he has asked me to pass on to you. Please find the petition enclosed.
I do not agree with everything that is said by the campaign but I do believe that they should have the right to peacefully demonstrate and express their views.
I do agree with them that the growth of fundamentalist and extreme Islam in Europe is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, and free speech should not be curtailed for those that wish to discuss it.
I would therefore respectfully ask you to reconsider your decision to ban their demonstration and permit them to hold a peaceful demonstration should they wish to do so in the future.
Yours sincerely,
Gerard Batten
Member of the European Parliament for London
September 20, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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September 21, 2007 at 9:57 am
here you can find 2 new videos of the demo in Brussels:
two totally different demonstrations - SIOE demonstrates without interruptions by the police - while many Vlaams Belang demonstrators are getting arrested by the police
The SIOE-Demo and the meeting with Garvers & Gash
greetings from the german action-forum against islamization: http://www.gegen-islamisierung.info
September 22, 2007 at 1:00 am
SIOE ALERT
Congratulations, you have made it into the UN report on Human Rights.
Got it via Dhimmi Watch.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/
An excerpt
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The 1st week ended with Mr. Doudou Diène – the Senegalese UN Special Rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance – presenting his report (A/HRC/6/6) on ‘defamation of religions’. He writes of “the increasing trend in defamation of religions and the factors that explain it, particularly in the context where human rights violations are justified as measures to combat terrorism, to protect national security and preserve national identity.”(…) His report “… also analyses specific forms of religion-based discrimination, including Islamophobia and its manifestations – in particular following the events of 11 September 2001…”. He refers several times to that horrible climacteric in world affairs simply as “the events”, and nowhere does he even mention the term “Jihad” or “Jihadist terrorism”. In his Report of 21 pages, Mr. Diène refers briefly to antisemitism (1½ pages), “Chistianophobia” (1 page), and to “Islamophobia” and “defamation of religions” (mainly Islam), at great length( 7½ pages).
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G07/137/32/PDF/G0713732.pdf?OpenElement
In presenting his Report, he mentioned three recent developments that illustrate, as he wrote, the gravity of “Islamophobia”: first, a manifestation outside the European Union Parliament in Brussels on 11 September 2007 against the “Islamization of Europe” that took place despite the mayor’s refusal to provide an authorisation to allow it;
September 23, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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