Brussels Attack: Look For More Stories About Islamophobia
03/22/2016
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There's been a bombing attack—by Muslim immigrants, I feel confident in saying—in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. The NYT has a headline saying Brussels Attacks: What We Know and Don’t Know By Victoria Shannon, March 22, 2016.
Officially, Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium said there was no information about whether the attacks were related to the arrest last week of the main surviving suspect in the assaults in and around Paris last year that killed 130 people.

The timing was noted by officials. “We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened,” Mr. Michel said.

Officials have also been concentrating on a particular Brussels neighborhood in an investigation of an Islamic State recruitment network.

Brussels has a high proportion of citizens who travel to Iraq, insular Muslim communities believed to have helped shield jihadists, and security services that have had problems with their counterterrorism operations.

The main problem—Brussels, like Paris, is full up with Muslim immigrants. Yesterday, before the terror attack, A. W. Morgan did a post here saying Belgian Prime Minister: Jihadists Are Our Own Fault. Expect more of that. See, earlier,
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