Storm in Belgium over suspected Islamist informer's murky past

Via EJPress:

The arrest of an Islamist in Morocco has made Belgian authorities wondering if they have been duped by a "double agent" alleged to have acted as an informer while planning several deadly attacks. The growing storm is swirling around Abdelkader Belliraj, 50, a Belgian and Moroccan national who was arrested last month in Morocco on suspicions of having led an Al Qaeda-linked group of 35 Islamic extremists. He is also a prime suspect in six unexplained killings in Belgium at the end of the 1980s, including the murder of Joseph Wybran, a former head of the umbrella group of Belgian Jewish organizations. Although the Moroccan accusations were at first met with scepticism in Belgium, authorities now consider them credible. It appears now, as details emerge, that Belliraj was probably for years a paid informer for Belgium's domestic intelligence services, the State Security.

Moroccan authorities say Belliraj has confessed to killing in Belgium, in 1989 alone, the representative of the Jewish community, two moderate Muslim officials and a driver for the Saudi Arabian ambassador mistaken for a diplomat.

Report on newest Palestinian Schoolbooks

At the end of 2006, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Higher Education introduced new 12th grade schoolbooks, written by the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula. The center is comprised of Palestinian educators appointed by the Fatah governments of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, and directed by Dr. Naim Abu Al-Humos, former PA Minister of Higher Education, appointed in 2002. The center is backed by foreign funding, with special thanks to Belgium noted in the new schoolbooks. Before the year 2000, the schoolbooks used in the Palestinian Authority were primarily Jordanian and Egyptian books, republished by the PA.

Between 2000 and 2005, responding to widespread international criticism of the old textbooks, the PA Ministry of Education issued new textbooks for Grades 1 through 11. This report by Palestinian MediaWatch reviews the following new schoolbooks for Grade 12, recently introduced into PA schools:

Physical Geography and Human Geography
History of the Arabs and the World in the 20th Century
Contemporary Problems
Islamic Education
Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Criticism
Arabic Language and the Science of Language
Mathematics
Scientific Culture

PMW has found that the new 12th grade Palestinian schoolbooks make no attempt to educate for peace and coexistence with Israel. Indeed, the opposite is true: The teachings repeatedly reject Israel’s right to exist, present the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, teach Israel’s founding as imperialism, and actively portray a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all.

Click here to read the full report, from PMW.

Oh and congratulations, Belgium, on your significant contribution towards promoting Jewicide.