Filip Dewinter
Filip Dewinter is the Vlaams Belang leader in the Flemish Parliament. He was born in Bruges (11.09.1962), but lives in Antwerp, where he also leads the Vlaams Belang group in the municipal council.[1]
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Following the lockdown in Brussels a week after the attacks in Paris, Dewinter tweeted:
- [#]BrusselsLockdown No restaurants, no theaters, no pubs... #Brussels is already an islamic city under #sharia rule!citiesagainstislamisation…
- #Brussels '300 meters from EU parliament you find a salafist mosque financed by Saoudi Arabia. Should I say more? (25 November 2015)
- For every European being killed by a refugee/terrorist we should deport a open borders-politician to Islamic State. (24 November 2015)
- [#]Brussels , jihad-capital of #Europe, another multicultural success story. Thx to @GuyVerhofstadt[2] (22 November 2015)
In an interview in Hungary he said:
- "Migration is the trojan horse of terrorism" [3]
Activities
2007
In October 2007, Dewinter spoke at the CounterJihad Brussels 2007 conference, and Vlaams Belang became an affiliate of the CounterJihad Europa network which emerged from the event.[4]
Vlaams Belang's participation was defended by Robert Spencer:
- The counterjihad conference that touched all this controversy off -- since VB and SD reps attended it -- was openly pro-Israel, featuring an address by Andrew Bostom on antisemitism and another by the decidedly non-dhimmi Israeli politician Aryeh Eldad. There was nothing white supremacist or neo-Nazi about it, and in fact it seemed to herald a new phase of cooperation between European and American anti-jihadists, although its genuine work has been completely overwhelmed by the ensuing controversy.[5]
2015
In March 2015 Dewinter led a Belgian parliamentary delegation on a visit to Damascus in Syria.
In early December 2105 Dewinter is due to speak at a Pegida conference in Dresden, Germany.
Controversies
In 2012 his then 19-year-old daughter An-Sofie posed in a bikini and Islamic headdress in a 'shocking poster for the Vlaams Belang party’s campaign against Islamization and discrimination of women using the slogan: ‘Freedom or Islam? Dare to choose.’ This campaign was in collaboration with the organisation 'Vrouwen Tegen Islamisering' (ie, “Women against Islamization”). [6]
Social media
Twitter: Filip Dewinter @FDW_VB
Affiliations
References
- ↑ Introduction, Vlaams Belang, accessed 7 December 2008.
- ↑ Guy Verhofstadt is the President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, accessed 26 November 2015
- ↑ Twitter: Filip Dewinter @FDW_VB, accessed 26 November 2015
- ↑ Counterjihad Brussels 2007 Conference, CounterJihad Europa, accessed 6 December 2008.
- ↑ Vlaams Belang, Charles Johnson, and all that, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 15 November 2007.
- ↑ article, Bare Naked Islam blog, accessed 26 November 2015
