The Brussels mayor, Socialist Freddy Thielemans sent out a press release in which he has banned a demonstration for a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of 9/11 on the 11th sept in Brussels. The reason for the prohibition is that he says he cannot guarantee public safety and that he won’t disturb the Islamic section of the population in Brussels.

The group, “Stop the Islamization of Europe” points out by invoking the lack of public safety highlights the graveness of the situation.

SIOE’s message is to warn against conditions such as these, where people no longer can use their freedom of expression and feel secure, but the shocking facts are that these conditions already reign at the heart of the EU. SIOE’s demonstration will of course happen, as a peaceful utterance of opinion, an utterance of opinion for which Muslims have countless times received permission to demonstrate in Brussels.

Therefore it’s completely absurd to ban a peaceful demonstration because they are afraid of violent Muslim counter-demonstrators!

We kindly ask the mayor of Brussels to alter his decision and let the free people of Europe demonstrate for their civil rights. We want our right to have a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of 9/11!