Police arrested two leaders of a Belgian far-right party Tuesday for staging an illegal protest against the "Islamization of Europe" six years to the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Police scuffled with some of the 200 people who converged on two squares in the EU district of Brussels to protest against what they perceived as the rise of Islam as a significant political force across Europe. Officers handcuffed two leaders of the far-right Flemish Interest Party, which is very critical of Muslim immigrants, and took them away in police vans.
Protesters sought to use the Sept. 11 anniversary to point out that Islam threatens democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
The demonstration was initially planned by Stop Islamization of Europe, a loose alliance with roots in Germany, Britain and Denmark, which had predicted that 20,000 people would come to Brussels from all over Europe.
Brussels Mayor Freddy Thielemans banned the protest last month, calling SIOE an inflammatory group and its proposed demonstration a threat to public order. An appeals court upheld the ban Aug. 29.

The British People's Party supports the SIOE and the dreadful spectre of the Islamisation of the whole of Western Europe? Inflammatory? What about the Islamic World Terror Network?

Below: Pictures from the rally defying the court ban - showing SIOE leaders being arrested....