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THE MAYOR OF the Brussels district of Molenbeek has said far-right extremists have been banned from holding a planned anti-Islam rally in the troubled neighbourhood, as the city remains on edge after last week’s suicide attacks.
Members of the French far-right youth group Generation Identitaire had posted a message on their website asking supporters to descend on Molenbeek this Saturday and march under the banner “Let’s expel the Islamists!”
The impoverished immigrant neighbourhood of Molenbeek has long been seen as a hotbed of Islamist extremism and the prime suspect in November’s Paris terror attacks was arrested there earlier this month, just metres from his family home.
‘There could have been clashes’
Molenbeek mayor Francoise Schepmans said the decision to ban the demo came after talks with police and other district mayors.
“If we had let it happen, there could have been clashes,” Schepmans told AFP, amid fears the protest could trigger angry counter-demonstrations in the largely Muslim Molenbeek.
The regional Brussels government will issue an order prohibiting “any demonstration or counter-demonstration in connection with this call to protest,” added Mustafa Er, an aide to Schepmans. The ban will cover all of the capital’s 19 districts.
In a sign of the simmering tensions in the still grieving capital, riot police fired water cannon last weekend to disperse far-right football hooligans who shouted anti-immigrant slogans and disrupted mourners at a shrine for victims of the Brussels attacks.
A total of 32 people were killed in the March 22 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a metro station. The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group.
Serve Apple right!
They are a bunch of thugs. They were (not for the first time) caught using unscrupulous methods to kill off any competition.
Thugs is a strong word. What did they do exactly?
Eh jeff Apple employing over 3000 people in Cork!!! Thugs! They have done a huge amount for the local community. I’ll be Supporting local jobs thats for sure and sticking with Apple :)
Thug’s is a strong ok but the essence of the comment is right. Apple for the most part have created nothing new just did things a similar but better way. Steve jobs said it himself they only ever took other peoples ideas and improves them. others are now doing that to apple. and they deal with it through the courts instead of competing on price and product.
as for how many apple employ in Ireland their competitors employ more people here so that’s no basis for supporting either side
sent from my iPhone
first time I saw a tablet pc was on Startrek, Captain Pickard had one long before Apple.
@Ray
You will find everything from the floppy disk,mobile phone through to tablet came from startrek.As much as people give that show some stick it was ahead of its time.
But he was in the future though…time travel?
If it wasn’t for apple we’d all be using crappy symbian OS phones made by Nokia. Whether you love em or hate them they transformed mobile phones and tablet markets.
Well said Jay ;)
Android is older than iOS.
But Android was already in development before Apple started the iPhone and WebOS was already developed. Palm & HTC had been making touch screen phones and personal assistants for years…
Apple just applied their industrial design & UI to other peoples ideas…
They all stole their ideas from Babbage. How can they claim to be adding anything new? Balderdash!
Should be harsher consequences for apple
Maybe, but having to publicly admit they were wrong? Against Samsung? I bet that will sting horribly more than any fine. It will be very interesting to see how they handle this.
Android Rulez…!!!
For Jay. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
I didn’t say invent Smartphones..they transformed them…and no one knows whether IOS/Android was first.
Google claim 2005 for Android but iOS was released in 2007 well ahead of it so it’s safe to assume Apple were working on it earlier than 2006 etc..
Either way both make great smartphones and I’ve had both including the very first android phone released.
never liked apple, and I never will… so I’m really happy to see how that case ended :)
Michelle Hennessy is pretty
Big fan of hers!
I have an iPad and a Samsung android phone and I love them both equally.
I am so disappointed with you.
Stick with one technology and look on with contempt at the other…
the most fundamental aspects of the iPhone are the glass top which is based on a compound called gorilla glass that was shelved by the manufacturer and reported after Jobs met its CEO and described what he was trying to do with touch screens – which conveniently leads into multitouch that came from the iPad design that was already on track at iPhone design stage, and scrolling was designed by the kid Jobs hired in the Apple building foyer after he had screwed his job interview on demonstrating a magnify feature that he jade programmed and first appeared aa a feature on the iMac, not to mention iPod integration etc etc. you may not like Jobs end to end integration that is the basis of the Apple walled garden, but consider why so many US businesses use Apple – because everything is simple – understand one device and you simply get the rest – and everything collaborates particularly with the streamlining of iCloud. Btw – I just composed this comment on my Samsung Note :)
Hi pat, I’m due an upgrade and can’t decide between the note or the galaxy s3. I’m going in tomorrow to get the phone. I love the size of the note but worried I might find it to big for one hand so I’m just wondering how you like it, is it comfortable to use. Sorry I know this is off topic but it’s a big decision for me.
I find the Note to be brilliant. I used to carry a notebook everywhere. Now I just ensure that I have my headphones and mic and I notate on the phone. Anything important is synced to Evernote. I like it :)
Thanks Pat.
Jim: have note too as second phone and it’s awesome… It’s not too big once you get used too also there is function to allow one hand typing – keyboard gets smaller and moves to one or another side of the screen allowing one hand typing which is not really possible on this phone with standard keyboard layout. Screen is perfection finally screen that is comfortable even for watching movies and super hd amoled screen beats even iPhone 4. Have s3 too which is my main phone but prefer note to be honest the only reason note is not my 1st phone is that I use it in car mainly as gps device.
Thanks Fizi I think I’ll go for the note, I mostly use my phone for internet so it sounds perfect for me.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the iPad was around before the galaxy tab. If that’s the case then Apple should get the apology. BTW I have an iPad and tried the galaxy tab, there’s no comparison, Apple rules
Unfortunatley for you, the court case wasn’t based around which you think rules or not… It’s about intellectual property. If what you are suggesting is correct, then Microsoft and Fujitsu should sue both Apple & Samsung as they have been producing tablets for years…
True…the ipad was actually being developed back in 2002-04 but Jobs decided to go with the phone first.
This pics came out in the recent trial.
In light of the super interesting comments above could you change the headline to “Apple and Android users in Ireland drop knowledge bombs about how cool Apple and samsung products are. UK judge to reconsider findings.”
Hey Stephen….everyone knows that Apple products are way cooler than Samsung…even the Judge said it in this same case so it must be true :)
Cool vs Cooler. The only thing we can know for certain in this whole debate is that the judge has a streetwise nephew from Philadelphia living with him. Everything else is irrelevant.
I have a windows phone :(
Actually agree with you on that Paul…if anything it was Bill Gates who created the first tablet pc back in 2002 but it was too far ahead of it’s time. Plus running windows :)
Bloomberg ?
There is a little button just above the comments section for reporting a typo or correction
What is the difference that android was first before iOS I have now Samsung galaxy s3 supposedly best android phone on the market and can’t complain about it, but in all fairness iPhone maybe crashed on me once a week, this Samsung crashes daily. Not like complete crash, but whatever application stopped to work do you want to close, wait, etc. os itself is also just smoother on iPhone – you have to be seriously blind to say otherwise. Android not bad thing but when it comes to simplicity and stability it loses with its in my opinion. Feature wise it wins.
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