The Ten O'Clock Scholar: People Waking Up

In Belgium,

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - More than 80,000 people marched in silence through Brussels on Sunday in memory of a teenager stabbed to death by two [Muslim] suspects of North African origin in Belgium's biggest protest in 10 years, police said.

The story tries hard to sweep the real issues under the rug. This is not some vague protest against "crime" in general, but about crime by islamic invaders.

In my first encounter with this story, the report included the astounding assertion that the police investigating had been most concerned with determining whether or not the victim had said anything racially to provoke the attack!

Well it appears 80,000 people are tired of PC nonsense.

And in France, there is some plain speaking:
PARIS (Reuters) - A far-right French politician launched his 2007 presidential campaign on Sunday denouncing what he called the Islamisation of the country and declaring Islam incompatible with France's secular values.

In a weird subtext to this story, we have this alarming revelation:

The daily Le Parisien, in an extensive report on Sunday on Villiers' charges about Islamist radicals at Charles de Gaulle airport, quoted officials saying the problem was minimal and suspicious workers were kept under surveillance.

Aware of the book's imminent publication, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Justice Minister Dominique Perben toured the airport on Thursday and said only 122 of about 83,000 ground staff were being watched.

"There aren't 122, there are hundreds," said Villiers, quoting what he said were top secret police reports he used as the basis for his book and challenging Sarkozy to publish them.

So they actually ADMIT there are islamist radicals working the airport, but it's "only" 122 of them!

And they let them still work there?

It's insanity.

The Villiers plan has some wonderful points:

Villiers said Islam was incompatible with the country's democratic system because he said it demanded loyalty to the ummah (world Muslim community) over any individual state, wanted to impose sharia Islamic law and promoted jihad, or holy war.

"I think there are moderate Muslims, they are even the large majority, but I do not believe there is a moderate Islam," he said. "I do not think Islam is compatible with the French republic."

Saying France had to fight what he called its Islamisation, he said Paris should stop all mosque construction, impose a citizen's charter demanding the strict separation of religion and state and freedom to change religions and demand strict respect for the equality of men and women.

It should also ban all Islamist organizations suspected of links to terrorism and expel any persons threatening the security of the French population.

Sounds good to me.

And here's an interesting 98-minute movie:

ISLAM: What the West Needs to Know

An examination of Islam, violence, and the fate of the non-Muslim world.

The Main Idea of the Film is

Virtually every major Western leader has over the past several years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public examination. Relying primarily on Islam’s own sources, this documentary demonstrates that Islam is a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the destruction or subjugation of other faiths, cultures, and systems of government.

We are told,