Co-founder Redouane Ahrouch of the Belgian Islamic party “named simply ‘Islam’ has been given a suspended sentence after being convicted by the Criminal Court of Brussels of discriminating against a woman on a television programme “. This should be no surprise, given the lower status of women under the sharia. Ahrouch also said following the launch of the Islam party: “Our goal is a one hundred per cent Islamic state.”
This is a welcome precedent and highlights the discrimination within Islamic doctrine; not only against women, but also against Jews, Christians and other minorities, gays, apostates etc.
On the other hand, despite the shouts of “Islamophobia”, the negative views about Islam have nothing to do with discrimination and intolerance. It has everything to do with the large-scale abuse of human rights committed in the name of Islam, not to mention the constant threat of jihad attacks.
The Islam Party got two members elected in 2012, including one in the Molenbeek area of Brussels…..This year, it will stand in 28 municipalities in all.
Molembeek is a known jihadist breeding ground.
Among the policies of the Islam party–in accord with the latest discrimination charge–is that “it wants to separate men and women on public transport.”
“Co-Founder of Belgian Islamist Party Convicted on Discrimination Charges”, by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart , May 11, 2019:
One of the co-founders of the Belgian Islamist party named simply “Islam” has been given a suspended sentence after being convicted of discriminating against a woman on a television programme last year.
Islam party co-founder Redouane Ahrouch appeared on the political television panel programme C’est Pas Tous les Jours Dimanche (It’s Not Every Sunday) in April last year and, during his time on the programme, refused to greet or even look at journalist and columnist Emmanuelle Praet, according to a report from Le Soir.
This refusal was prosecuted as discrimination by the Criminal Court of Brussels, where he was convicted.
Mr Ahrouch, who serves as a local councillor in Anderlecht, co-founded the Islam party in the early months of 2018, causing uproar due to policies attributed to the party, such as turning Belgium into a sharia-compliant Islamic state.
“Our goal is a one hundred per cent Islamic state,” Ahrouch said last year following the launch of the party. He also said that men and women should have gender-segregated use of public transportation, comments that soon afterwards saw him fired from his position as a bus driver.
Few, if any, parties welcomed the launch of the Islam party, and several, including the Independent Federal Democrat Party (DEFI), the right-wing Reform Movement (MR), the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH), and the Socialist Party (PS), proposed banning the Islam Party and any other party whose “whose aim is to threaten public liberties.”…..