Sam van Rooy
Sam van Rooy (born 27 May 1985) is a Belgian-Flemish politician for Vlaams Belang, author, blogger and former professional cyclist.
Biography[edit]
Van Rooy was born in Antwerp in 1985. He is the son of Flemish writer Wim van Rooy. He graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Antwerp and was also a professional cyclist from 2001 to 2006 and raced with the Flemish youth team.[1][2]
In 2011 Van Rooy lived and worked in the Netherlands as a policy director for Geert Wilders and the Party for Freedom party, before Wilders dismissed him from the party over a controversial video Van Rooy had published online. In the video, Van Rooy followed several women wearing burqas around in a shopping centre, labelling them "scum". He responded that "What nonsense that you can't call people scum," "people who reject Western values in favor of a racist, fascist and inhumane system like Sharia are just scum, just like Nazis and other fascists."[3] Van Rooy joined Vlaams Belang in 2012 and became a press spokesman for the party. In 2012 he participated in the international counter-jihad conference in Brussels, billed as the "International Conference for Free Speech & Human Rights".[4][5] In 2019, he was elected as a councilor in Antwerp and succeeded Filip Dewinter as the Vlaams Belang group leader in the Antwerp city council. The same year he was also elected to the Flemish Parliament.[6] He is also a publicist and writer on the Flemish blog site Doorbraak.
Works[edit]
- 2010 - Islam. Critical essays on a political religion (ASP Editions, together with Wim van Rooy)
- 2012 - Europe staggers. The kidnapping of Europe by the EU (Van Halewyck, together with Wim van Rooy and Remi Hauman)
- 2016 - Why do they hate us anyway? (The Blue Tiger, together with Frits Bosch, Paul Cliteur and Wim van Rooy, among others)
- 2018 - So for freedom against Islamization (Breakthrough)
References[edit]
- ^ Fiche Sam van Rooy op dewielersite.be.
- ^ "www.samvanrooy.be".
- ^ Partij Wilders zet Vlaamse medewerker op non-actief na internetfilmpje met boerka, Het Laatste Nieuws, 16 juli 2011.
- ^ "Brussels 2012 Agenda". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 9 July 2012.
- ^ Lazaridis, Gabriella; Campani, Giovanna (2016). Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 9781317326052.
- ^ Filip Dewinter geeft na 26 jaar scepter door aan Sam van Rooy, Het Laatste Nieuws, 9 mei 2019.
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