"There is a social crisis here, like in other European countries," said [Christian Desert, a spokesman for the Brussels-based Movement Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia], "and if the politicians can't find political solutions, some try to find the solution with foreigners by saying they're the problem."
It never occurs to Mr. Anti-Racism that Belgium's "social crisis" could, well, maybe, just perhaps, be caused by flooding a small Catholic country with non-European, non-Christian foreigners. Philippe Van Der Sande, a Vlaams Belang spokesman, responds.
"People are fed up with crime in our cities and radical Islamists who don't accept integration and won't assimilate and accept our Western democratic society, and so those are things we want to change with our policies," he said. "Do we have a multicultural Europe or one that is based on Jewish-Christian values?"
It's almost sad he's still asking that. From Suburban Middle America the answer is so clear.
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