Belgium declared independence, rather than being manually constructed, so yes, the belgians themselves were mentally handicapped.
That's the joke of the whole situation. The so-calles Belgian revolution was lead by a bunch of rich hormon-filled kids in Brussels and some veterans of the French revolutions. Together with the incompetence of Willem I and some support by England and France, the Belgian state was born. It was more a coincidence then a revolution

This seems to suggest a lack of goodwill, no?![]()
Maybe. But there is also the history part and the fact that they thought that it was more important to learn English. I don't know if that was caused by a lack of goodwill or by a lack of good judgement.
It's changing, however. Now, English and Dutch are equally important as it should be.
Semantics.Err, what?![]()
Prove it. Racism is a view that certain races are biologically inferior to others. I don't think they believe in that.
To sum it up:
1) being against multiculturalism - good, or is it illegal to think that MC is a bad idea?
2) being against immigration - isn't that a right of every man to be against a government policy?
3) support for deportation of unassimilated immigrants - again, what's wrong with that? Why shouldn't you have a right to demand cooperation from people who came to your country?
4) distinction between European and non-European immigrants - sounds rather logical, immigrants from Europe tend to share a similar culture and are easily assimilated compared to people from culturally different parts of the world.
5) not accepting Islam - is it now compulsory to accept an alien religion spreading un-European ideas and causing asocial behaviour? Should they accept Aum Shinrikyo too?
Don't use these words to describe something which has nothing to do with them.
Their predecessor, Vlaams Blok, was sentenced as a racist party a couple of years ago.They changed their name and program, and as such they can't be called racist anymore. But it's still the same people and they remain xenophobe!