Another little piece of the puzzle on the backlash in Europe - anti-Immigrant parties gain in the Belgian municipal elections

`Anti-immigrant' , (read `anti-Muslim') parties gained in local Belgian elections , mainly centered around the Flemish Interest party, reaping votes in the northern Flemish-speaking Flanders region as well as the French dpeaking south at the expense of Belgian Prime Minister Verhofstadt's Liberal Democrats.

This is definitely a continuing trend in Europe...stay tuned...