More than 150 people were arrested in Brussels for taking part in a banned demonstration against "the Islamisation of Europe", and Denmark's prime minister called on Muslim religious leaders to help ensure that young people did not turn to extremism.........

BRUSSELS, Belgium: 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 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. The demonstration was initially planned by Stop Islamization of Europe, a loose alliance with roots in Germany, Britain and Denmark.

The group 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. Only 200 or so protesters showed up Tuesday for a protest lasting only 30 minutes.

The demonstrators faced more than 100 police, backed up by water cannons and helicopters, who closed off streets around the EU headquarters. "We support the goals of the demonstration to protest against the lack of freedom of expression in this country," said Frank Vanhecke, the head of the Flemish Interest Party, before he was bundled off to the police station. "And we also we fully agree that the rise of Islam in Europe poses a risk to our values."

The Italian Foreign Ministry said it was protesting the detention of an Italian member of the European Parliament, Mario Borghezio, who attended the demonstration. Borghezio is from the Northern League, an Italian regional party with an anti-immigrant stance. Italian state TV showed footage of Borghezio yelling as police were taking him away that he is a member of the European Parliament. He was later released.

Protesters sought to use the Sept. 11 anniversary to draw attention to their belief that Islam threatens democracy and the rule of law in Europe.

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I have completed a Google News search and no one is reporting this. It was certainly very newsworthy when the Mayor of Brussels banned the protest in the first place, but it was buried.

<a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/08/stop-islamisation-of-brussels.html">majority of Brussels City Councillors</a> are Muslim, has anything to do with the protest being BANNED in the first place.

I notice that the BBC has reported with its usual Islamic propaganda slant, that the organiser had promised a large turn-out but the police had almost outnumbered the protest. Naturally this was said out of context and did not appear anywhere near the FACT, that the Mayor had BANNED the protest.

And whilst we are on the subject of the treachery of the BBC, check this out.

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/practices/pbuh.shtml">Peace be upon him</a>

Throughout the BBC's section on Islam you will see peace be upon him or (pbuh) after the name Muhammad.

Muslims say peace be upon him after every mention of Muhammad's name, as a mark of respect. Muslims do the same when they write the Prophet's name, adding pbuh.

The Arabic translation of peace be upon him is sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which is usually abbreviated as saw.