Sunday 23 January 2011

Organizer of Belgian unity march wears Palestinian keffieh ...

Belgium is going through a major political and institutional crisis and has been without a government for seven months.  Five young men called for a demonstration today to demand that politicians break the stalemate and form a coalition government.  One of the organizers,  Simon Vandereecken, was wearing a keffieh, the famous Palestinian scarf worn by arch-terrorist Arafat.  By the way, the rally call was "Shame, No Government for Our Country After 200 Days".  Protesters were not wearing keffiehs...

1 comment:

Juniper in the Desert said...

The only decent Belgian in history is Hercules Poirot and he got out of Belgium pretty darn quick!!