TV as a weapon – The New Times

Throughout Belgium living about the same number of people, how much and in Moscow, -. 11 million of them between 6% and 8% are Muslims. According to surveys, about the same number of Muslims living in Russia, although Islamic leaders are inclined to increase these numbers by half.

In the Belgian capital, Brussels, the Muslim population reaches 23%. According to muftis, these numbers also correspond roughly to Moscow, however, most likely, even with the Muslims of all illegal migrants in the Russian capital is much less. But unlike Russia, where there were some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the history of mankind – Dubrovka and Beslan, in Belgium until last week, there was not a single act of terrorism with the number of victims of more than eight people. The incidents were rare and usually result in one or two deaths.

The Paris and Brussels attacks gave the biggest in a decade surge in deaths from terrorists in Western Europe, but it is hard to call phenomenal – in the 1970s and 1980s, Basque, Irish and other militants have killed many times more people (see infographic.)

The difference is that today’s terrorists began to choose symbolic. goals, achieving maximum mediaeffekta, and as a consequence – the panic in the society. TV has become even more important instrument of terror than the actual bomb – especially because it promotes its self-reproduction, mobilizing new and hate the world of losers, who are hoping to get their fifteen seconds of fame

Unique country

After the Brussels tragedy of security and public Belgian institutions are heavily criticized for failing to counter the threat. Belgium is often called “the richest state failure (failed state) in the world.” This characteristic country earned mainly by the fact that 489 days in 2010-2011 have lived without a government for contractual engagements of the two main ethnic communities – the Flemish and Walloon. And now Belgium is unique in that its major role in the parliament and the government play the Flemish separatists, pro-independence Flemish, key historical region of the country. Birth Belgium injury – ethnic fragmentation – has always been a source of contention, leading to politicization of state institutions, particularly the security forces, in which ethnocratic parties compete for key positions

<. span> to say that the Belgians have become victims of their own tolerance – is like blaming Alexander II in the revolution of 1917, because he let his serfs

But all this did not prevent the country at the same time be safe and prosperous. The level of conventional crime in Belgium is slightly higher than the EU average. But killing people in Belgium are three times less than in Lithuania and Estonia, where Muslims are almost no, and four times less than in Russia (according to the World Bank and Eurostat).

Belgium has one of the most successful economies in Europe, which is ahead of the GDP per capita, France, Great Britain and Japan. Moroccans and Turks, who make up the vast majority of Belgian Muslims, made a very significant contribution to the economic success of the country, make up the shortfall in the labor market in an era of economic boom.

The War ethnocracies

What happened in Brussels can not be explained with the help of promotional memes are spreading Russian propaganda. It is evident that migration and radical Islamism are linked. But to claim that the Belgians have become victims of their own tolerance – is like blaming Alexander II in the revolution of 1917, because he let his serfs

Victims of terrorist acts in Western Europe

         

Explosions in Brussels were the result of the failure of the Belgian security services, which overlooked was inside in front of them a terrorist group already after her own members staged a terrorist attack in Paris. Before that, they turned a blind eye for years to the country’s sprawling Islamist network, which as a result gave the largest in Western Europe, the number of fighters to jihadists operating in Syria and Iraq. But instead of dramatically improve communication security services, officials continued war ethnocracies. When in Paris terrorist attacks was discovered Brussels trail, Interior Minister of Belgium Jan Yambon that represents the Flemish separatist party, accused the French-speaking Brussels Government inaction and incompetence. He set them up as an example of police success in Antwerp, where he was able to cover a large network of radical Islamists, who were involved in the recruitment of fighters for the “Islamic State” * in Syria.

Imams for fringe

Meanwhile, as telling the magazine the New Yorker is one of the founders of the network, the best and the militants became convinced those who were not brought up from childhood in the Islamic tradition, that is, people from secular families of Muslim origin or from families who did not have to do any relation to Islam. Surrendering network Yeyun Bontink – son of the Belgian military and women from Nigeria. Both parents – Catholics. Such as it was the rule rather than the exception in the unit under the supervision of the Syrian Amr al-Absi, joined by dozens of Belgians and other Europeans. Losers, outcasts and adventurers – if they had not picked up the radical imams have picked someone else

Radical Islamism -. Just one of a string of sectarian totalitarian ideologies that attract people who have problems with education and prone to deviant behavior. He himself will inevitably end up living in the same place all his predecessors – to the dustbin of history. But the feeling of “I hate this world” and the desire to “kill all” will continue to visit people and more and the weakest of us will be a desire to exercise, finding justification in the murky political ideas.

* LIH (IG Daishev,” Islamic State “) – a terrorist organization banned in Russia

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