Paul Beliën

Paul Belien (Paul Beliën ) is the founder and editor of The Brussels Journal , a key counterjihad movement blog published by the Society for the Advancement of Freedom in Europe (SAFE), a Swiss non-profit organisation. Belien worked as a professional journalist in both Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1994 he founded the Brussels-based think tank Centre for the New Europe (CNE). His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal , The Spectator , The Independent") and elsewhere.[[1]]( Belien promoted Bat Ye'or 's 'Eurabia ' thesis by providing leading proponents like Fjordman one of the inspirations for Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik a platform on his Brussels Journal .[[5]]( . Belien spoke at the CounterJihad Brussels 2007 conference, alongside prominent anti-Muslim activits like Bat Ye'or and Robert Spencer and far-right politicians like ultra-nationalist Israeli MK Arieh Eldad , Ted Ekeroth of the Sweden Democrats and Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang . He has also been due to attend the UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad summit that same year but reportedly missed the event due to an airport strike.[[6]]( In 2009 Belien was vice-president of the board of directors of the International Free Press Society (IFPS ) alonside Ned May of the Gates of Vienna blog, Christine Brim of the Center for Security Policy and Lars Hedegaard , founder of the original Free Press Society in Denmark.[[4]]( On 23 April 2009, the far-right populist German Pro Köln party stated on its website said that Belien would be attending[[7]]( its 'anti-Islamisation' conference in Cologne on 8-10 May 2009.[[8]]( A number of Belien's articles have been published by the New York-based Gatestone Institute , which also publishes the work of anti-Islam activists Robert Spencer and Geert Wilders , among other.[[9]]( His profile on the Gatestone website claims that he is 'a scholar on Europe, the European Commission and an adviser to European governments.'[[10]]( These appear to be cross-posts from the Brussels Journal ; the last of which was dated 2010. A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs, and the Belgianisation of Europe (Imprint Academic, 2005) Visions of Europe, coauthored with Lady Thatcher, et al. (Duckworth, 1994) Consumer-Driven Health Care, coauthored with Regina Herzlinger") , et al. (Jossey-Bass, 2004).