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Paul Belien is the founder and editor of The Brussels Journal, a key counterjihad movement blog.

History

Belien worked as a professional journalist in both Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1994 he founded the Brussels-based think tank Centre for the New Europe (CNE). His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, The Independent and elsewhere.[1]

He holds a degree in law with specialization in social security law and European law (University of Ghent, Belgium) and a doctorate in international studies (University of Buckingham, UK).[2] In 2010, he was employed as 'personal assistant' by Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.[3]

He is also an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and is married to Alexandra Colen, an MP in the far-right Belgian Vlaams Belang party.[4]

Counterjihad role

Eurabia

Belien promoted Bat Ye'or's 'Eurabia' thesis by providing leading proponents like Fjordman - one of the inspirations for Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik - a platform on his Brussels Journal.[5].

Neocon Nexus

In December 2006, the Middle East Forum appointed Belien as director of Islamist Watch.[1]

International Free Press Society

In 2009 Belien was vice-president of the board of directors of the International Free Press Society (IFPS) alonside Ned May of the Gates of Vienna blog, Christine Brim and Lars Hedegaard, founder of the original Free Press Society in Denmark.[4]

Affiliations

Connections

External Resources

Publications

  • A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs, and the Belgianisation of Europe (Imprint Academic, 2005)
  • Visions of Europe, coauthored with Lady Thatcher, et al. (Duckworth, 1994)
  • Consumer-Driven Health Care, coauthored with Regina Herzlinger, et al. (Jossey-Bass, 2004).

References