Brussels Journal

The Brussels Journal is a conservative blog, founded by the Flemish journalist Paul Beliën. It is consistently named as one of the Counter-jihad movement's main channels. It was founded in 2005, and has both an English language section with various international contributions, and a Dutch section.

The Brussels Journal bills itself as a member of the OpinionJournal Federation but does not appear among the list of members on OpinionJournal's own site. It is published by the Society for the Advancement of Freedom in Europe (SAFE), a Swiss non-profit organisation.

Paul Beliën's wife, Alexandra Colen, was a parliamentary member of Vlaams Belang. However, Beliën himself has been at odds with the party at times, criticizing the party for its populism. However, Beliën has since been employed as an advisor by Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch, right-wing Party for Freedom. According to the Brussels Journal, it is a nonpartisan publication, and most of its writers, both Belgian and non-Belgian, have no affiliation to any political party or organization.

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Bret Stephens, after a 17-year-old Belgian boy, Joe Van Holsbeeck, was murdered by romani from Poland, Paul Beliën wrote an article calling for the decriminalization of the possession of "self-defense weapons." The article was titled "Geef ons Wapens!" (Give us Weapons!). The government anti-discrimination agency Center for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism claimed the article constituted incitement to violence and warned that unless it was removed, the blog would face state prosecution, among other things based on the quote

Muslims are predators that have learned from childhood (…) during the yearly feast of the sacrifice (…) how to slaughter warm herd animals.

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