The Antwerp prosecutor has opened an investigation into an internet game published on the website of Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter in the run-up to the May elections. The game was dubbed Minder, minder, minder (Less, Less, Less), citing Dutch … Continue reading
The Helsinki-based company Sanoma Media is threatening to take action against the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang for circulating fake front pages of the magazines Flair and Libelle featuring women in veils and burqas. VB is protesting against the magazines’ refusal to … Continue reading
Het Nieuwsblad reports that Vlaams Belang has held a demonstration in Temse in East Flanders. Displaying a banner featuring its favourite slogan, “Freedom or Islam”, the Belgian far-right party was protesting against a proposal to convert a disused former police station … Continue reading
Belgian Vlaams Belang party activists were chanting “fewer, fewer!” during their party’s electoral congress on Sunday in Antwerp-Belgium, in support of the Dutch right-wing party leader Geert Wilders, who wants “fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands. According to the Belgian news … Continue reading
Belgian anti-Islam campaigners must remove all posters featuring the stilettos of the luxury French footwear designer Christian Louboutin after a court ruled in the company’s favour on Monday. The poster promoted by the campaign group “women against Islamisation” showed the … Continue reading
Last year the Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang launched a new front organisation, Women Against Islamisation, with a poster featuring party leader Filip Dewinter’s teenage daughter wearing a bikini and a veil. Evidently pleased with the publicity generated by this … Continue reading
The Belgian press has reported that three Vlaams Belang politicians staged a protest at a school in Schoten, where many of the students are Muslims, because it had organised a barbecue that included halal meat. The protestors climbed over the wall into … Continue reading
‘Wanted!’ Vlaams Belang video offers reward for shopping veiled women to police Belgian right-wingers have offered to pay a 250 euros ($310) bounty to anyone who reports a veiled woman to police, they said on Tuesday, in the wake of face veil … Continue reading
Some members of Vlaams Belang, an intensely xenophobic Flemish nationalist group, occupied the roof of an Antwerp building that the municipal authorities will turn into a mosque. The protest against “the Islamisation of Antwerp” and the “supermosque” (as Vlaams Belang … Continue reading
A far-right Belgian leader who posted names and addresses of 770 residents on the web in a bid to prove “Islamisation” was at work in the city of Antwerp could face a 500,000-euro fine for racism. Filip Dewinter, leader of … Continue reading