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...Themsche had shaved his head just days before his shooting spree. But a note later recovered from his home by police suggests that his racist politics was more deeply rooted. His father had been a founding member of the Vlaams Blok, the anti-immigration, Flemish separatist party renamed Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, in 2004 in a bid to broaden its appeal. His aunt, Frieda Van Themsche, is a VB member of the Belgian parliament. And VB is no fringe party: it got 24% of the Flemish vote in 2004 regional elections, making it the largest party in Flanders, Belgium...
...some of the nonextremists, who, I can assure you, still live there. Yes, the city has a large number of immigrants, and that has led to a certain ethnic polarization. Still, it would have been wise to listen to others besides members of the right-wing extremist Vlaams Belang party or the radical Arab European League. The idea that an AEL candidate might be a main rival to Vlaams Belang in the 2012 municipal elections is plainly outrageous, since AEL's percentage of the vote in the last election was negligible. Dirk Lambrecht Brussels Your stories on discrimination against immigrants...