{"id":33636,"date":"2015-12-07T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33636"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:14:26","slug":"qotd-the-problem-of-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/qotd-the-problem-of-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The problem of Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Judging by emerging reports, it almost looks as though the big new international-relations problem highlighted by the latest massacre might end up being the failure of the Belgian state. Some of the perpetrators seem to have fled toward the terrorist-riddled Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, which has sprouted a long sequence of killers involved with everything from the 2004 Madrid attacks to the failed August Amsterdam-Paris train attack that was stopped by American passengers. The Belgian authorities are contrite about the helplessness of their police and security apparatus in a zone that is a giant magnet for Europe\u2019s Muslim creeps and ne\u2019er-do-wells.<\/p>\n<p>This raises further existential questions, and it is not as though they are new, about an ethnically divided country fabricated by 19th-century great powers mostly for geopolitical purposes. Foreign-policy amateurs are fond of saying, with some justice, that most of the world\u2019s problems come from borders badly drawn by Europeans in out-of-the-way places. Belgium\u2019s worsening habit of exhaling spores of Muslim terror on to its neighbours may actually put it on that list, unless its problem is solved pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/colby-cosh-after-paris-are-we-sure-the-map-that-needs-changing-is-in-the-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;After Paris, are we sure the map that needs changing is in the Middle East?&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2015-11-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by emerging reports, it almost looks as though the big new international-relations problem highlighted by the latest massacre might end up being the failure of the Belgian state. Some of the perpetrators seem to have fled toward the terrorist-riddled Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, which has sprouted a long sequence of killers involved with everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,41,11],"tags":[523,554,47,257],"class_list":["post-33636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-belgium","tag-immigration","tag-islam","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33637,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions\/33637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}