The Brussels district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, known for its large Muslim population, is failing in terms of integration and does not feel like a part of Belgium, the president of Belgium’s Social-Democrat Vooruit (Progress) party has claimed.
REMIX News Stirring up a debate usually reserved for the right, Conner Rousseau commented on the ethnic composition of the district in an interview with Humo, where he stated: “When I drive through Molenbeek, I don’t feel like I’m in Belgium.”
Questioned by the Flemish weekly on the place of migration in the debates which played a major role in the French elections, the president of Vooruit described the municipality of Brussels as falling short of efforts to assimilate, and described Molenbeek as a place “where most people were born here” but who would experience serious linguistic difficulties.
“In Brussels, due to the shortage of teachers, there are people who teach in Arabic because they don’t speak French. This is unacceptable,” Rousseau said. “And what is the Flemish government doing? It increases the cost of language courses to reduce waiting lists.”
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Rousseau maintained his position on Tuesday morning while on Radio 1, saying that in some regions, almost only Arabic is spoken and that children are therefore not encouraged to learn Dutch or French, which jeopardizes their chances at school and for the job market.
His comments served as the equivalent of a bomb going off for the Belgium left. The head of the Socialist Party’s parliamentary group, Ahmed Laaouej, was the first to reply, denouncing Rousseau’s words as “intolerable, stigmatizing and xenophobic. Brussels is a cosmopolitan region with neighborhoods experiencing a great diversity of population. They deserve better than a contempt worthy of a pub discussion. Lamentable and unbearable.”
Mayor Catherine Moureaux described Rousseau’s attitude towards the municipality as “caricatural” and “contemptuous.” Several left-wing federal ministers also condemned his remarks and even some members of his own party have stepped up to criticize their leader, in particular the Molenbeek alderman Jef Van Damme. The Flemish nationalist right praised the young socialist and the Flemish far-right also defended Rousseau.
Molenbeek is the Brussels district with the highest ratio of foreign nationals, with as much as 40 percent of the population being Muslim. With youth unemployment also running at 40 percent in the district, it is often called the “poor croissant” of Brussels.
Fast forward the below video to see how Islam is predicted to grow in Belgium between now and 2100.
ApathyRulesTheWorld says
I bet I know what his answer to the problem is. The government must provide more resources and funds to these poor people to help them integrate better, which of course they never will.
Pray Hard says
Not very quick, is he?
Rebel Patriot says
Conner Rousseau should of said that Belgium is now an islamic shithole and congratulated himself.
Andrew+Blackadder says
The Islam Party in Belgium is not hiding in plain sight, they are not hiding behind the curtains, they are out front and center telling the people of Belgium that the main platform of their political party is that they want Belgium to be an islamic Nation and that sharia will be the Law of the land for everybody.
Let us not forget that this political party is based in Brussels which is also the HQ for the EU so just imagine if Belgium becomes an islamic Nation with the HQ of the EU being the Capital of it all.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Shit people that is what is allover europe. Go to france italy greece or germany and you will see and hear nothing but foreighn people and languages but you hear no german in germany, that is really so and i live here and see, hear it daily and as i write the next load is oncomming and the next ones are getting ready. Germany alone has taken over 5 million and the count goes up daily and the hauses are all gone and given away and now they want to take the homes from us (enteignung) so that they can give them away too. Germany alone has no apartments or hausing to acommodate the world but to say that is nazi and antisematic. Soon this will fall on their feet and then what, how will you get them to go home…you wont and they will destroy the rest of our country. This will happen to you if you let it but you let it see michigan the state where i grew up.
Religious Scholar says
Man created Allah to be the god of criminals; criminals that strike the Non Muslims. Muslim Heaven and Muslim Hell are also creations of Man to make people believe in imaginary rewards and imaginary punishments from the imaginary Allah. Muslims are trapped within their own minds in the world of delusion.
Linda Rivera says
It does not feel like a part of Belgium, the president of Belgium’s Social-Democrat Vooruit (Progress) party has claimed.
That’s because it’s no longer a part of Belgium. It’s Muslim occupied, dominated and controlled. This is how all of Europe and Britain will be very soon. It’s what the UN, EU, British and European governments want.
The Elimination of White Europeans.
56 Muslim Countries Conquered by the Sword is not good enough for the UN, EU and British and European God hater leaders. They want Muslims to have every one of our non-Muslim countries.
Cleavis W Nowell says
Bad enough that he never understood that multicultural means social extinction and far worse.
Linda Rivera says
EXACTLY.