Sharia4Belgium
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"The criminal court in Antwerp considers the Belgian radical Islamist group Sharia4Belgium to be a terrorist organisation that brainwashed youngsters to have them join Jihadist fighters in the Middle East. Its former leader and spokesman, Fouad Belkacem, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Crown witness Jejoen Bontinck, the best-known (former) member, was also convicted but only received a suspended sentence, after spending time in custody before the trial."--2015, VRT |
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Sharia4Belgium was a Belgian radical Salafist organisation which called for Belgium to convert itself into an Islamic state.
In February 2015 the group was designated a terrorist organisation by a Belgian judge. By 7 October 2012 the organization was disbanded.
On March 31, 2010 Sharia4Belgium disrupted a lecture titled "The Islam Debate: Long Live God, Down with Allah" by Benno Barnard at the University of Antwerp. In early April 2010, Belgium's interior minister Annemie Turtelboom ordered the monitoring of the organisation's website.
In 2011 the organisation called the death of Vlaams Belang politician Marie-Rose Morel a "punishment of Allah". Then-defence minister Pieter De Crem was threatened with his life on the internet because of the Belgian participation in Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya. Sharia4Belgium was summoned to the correctional tribunal for incitement to hatred in 2011.
In 2016 the organization was classed as terrorist organization as Fouad Belkacem had recruited several young men to fight for the Islamic State in Syria. Belkacem and 45 other members were found guilty of membership in a terrorist group.
See also
- Terrorist activity in Belgium
- Khalid Zerkani recruited 72 young individuals with migrant backgrounds of whom most were petty criminals
- Islam in Belgium
- Sharia4Holland
- Fouad Belkacem
- Moroccans in Belgium
- Abdelhamid Abaaoud
- Collaboration with ISIL
- FTF
- Al-Nusra Front
