This takes a stupid kind of dangerous ... the US uninvites Vlaams Belang? Is this Obama's way of expressing solidarity with the rioting Muslims in Europe? Were the political parties marching in the death-to-the-Jews marches also banished? Was the Finnish Green party banned? Was the Swedish socialist party, whose officials just last week marched under a hezballah flag in a death-to-the-Jews march banned? Or was it only the parties that stand with Israel?
Vlaams Belang not welcome at US Embassy On Jan 20, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Paul Belien wrote:
Three weeks ago the Vlaams Belang members of the Foreign Affairs committee of the Belgian Senate were invited to attend the inauguration of B Obama at the US Embassy in Brussels this afternoon. The invitation was sent to all the members of the Foreign Affairs committee of the Belgian Senate. This morning the US embassy rang the party to tell that the invitation to the VB members has been withdrawn. The VB politicians are not welcome (though the politicians from other parties are). The US embassy says the invitations to the VB were a "mistake".
Why VB? Because they fight crushing Muslim immigration? They fight the islamization of Europe. And this is Hussein's first move.
PREVIOUSLY: SWEDEN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS' JEW HATING RALLY UNDER HEZBALLAH FLAG
VLAAMS BELANG TAKES ACTION TO HALT JEW-HATING DEATH MARCHES
If this is an indication of B. Hussein's new world order ......... duck.
CNN has actually compared the inauguration to the Haj pilgrimage in Mecca (video here).
UPDATE: Here's the full translation, hat tip GoV
According to Het Laatste Nieuws, as kindly translated on short
notice by our Flemish correspondent VH:
Vlaams Belang not welcome at U.S. Embassy in Brussels
The American Embassy informed the Senate fraction of Vlaams Belang that the invitations a number of fraction members received to witness Obama taking the oath, at the American Embassy in Brussels, was “a mistake”. Fraction leader Joris van Hauthem finds this rejection “indecent for the largest democracy in the World”.
Invitation
Some three weeks ago, the leader of the Vlaams Belang, the members and the mandatory members of the Foreign Affairs commission of the Senate received an invitation to witness the taking the oath by Obama at the Embassy of the United States in Brussels. Karim Van Overmeire and Freddy Van Gaever responded to the invitation.
Error
- - - - - - - - - This morning the fraction received a phone call in which the Embassy
explained that the invitation was “a mistake”. Fraction leader Joris Van Hauthem
is annoyed with the course of affairs. That suddenly members of Vlaams Belang
are not welcome at the Embassy he finds “improper and
unacceptable”. “Disgraceful” Freddy Van Gaever called it
outrageous and scandalous that his invitation is withdrawn. He points out that
he some time ago donated a house to an organization in the United States. He was
even invited to attend the taking the oath by Ronald Reagan in Washington. In
the meanwhile he has decided to go to the Embassy this afternoon with his
invitation.
Thanks to Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal
for notifying me about this news report.
