Death threat to Belgian politician results in 48 hrs of community service

Conservative leader Filip Dewinter is use to death threats.

But what he’s not use to is a promise of “zero tolerance” against Muslim extremism from the same government that metes out a slap on the wrist.

As reported by the Austrian magazine Unzensuriert, both Dewinter’s and his wife had their lives threatened by Salafist Muslim El Chazoini Lishssin, formerly of Dubai, now a resident of Geneva, Switzerland.

A criminal court in Antwerp found the terrorist guilty of the death threat, and sentenced him to 48 hours of “voluntary social work” and a fine of €275 (roughly $340 or £219).

Dewinter, leader of the nationalistic Vlaams-Belang party found he and his wife the target of Lishssin and his brothers when the patriotic political movement planned a protest against the Ground Zero mosque on the 9th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

Dewinter is quoted as stating:

“48 hours of social work and a fine of €275 is a ridiculous sentence.

These kinds of death threats are not acceptable.

The final goal of it was to intimidate and silence a politician through death threats.”

Dewinter went on to state that such a light sentence:

“is almost an incentive to repeat such death threats”

The Flemish politician went on to state that the loose punishment stands in blatant contradiction to the “zero-tolerance policy” against Muslim extremism announced by the minister of justice Annemie Turtelboom.

A Family Affair…

Dewinter’s daughter, An-Sofie, recently posed in a bikini-burqa ad asking the Belgian people, “Vrijheid of islam?” (Freedom or Islam?)

An-Sofie herself has been threatened so many times in the past, she recently stated in a report by Fox News:

“Death threats and criticism no longer scare me off.”

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