Gates of Vienna has just posted a must-read story about Muslim thugs, mobilized by a group called sharia4belgium, shouting down Dutch-born man of letters Benno Barnard at the University of Antwerp last night in Belgium -- Belgium, which, with a unanimous panel vote in the Belgian Federal Parliament today, has just come one important step closer to becoming the first European country to ban the burqa and niqab (full-body Islamic coverings).  

I have posted the Baron's shocking illustration for the story above. He writes:

The image above is a detail from a picture on the sharia4belgium website, and shows the jihad flag of the caliphate (with the shahada) flying over the Royal Palace in Brussels.

Future or fantasy? Or, given the succesul sharia-assault on Barnard's freedom of speech, veiled present?