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large parts of france are also under Islamic control..
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Subject: "The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe" – Pipes in Wash.
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"The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe" – Pipes in Wash. Times, #1441
Daniel Pipes
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The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe
*by Daniel Pipes
/Washington Times
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December 29, 2015*
*http://www.danielpipes.org/16384/the-danger-of-partial-no-go-zones-to-europe*
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[N.B.: /WT/ title: "The danger of partial no-go zones: Allowing areas
where Muslims exclude non-Muslims signals Western weakness"]
Partial no-go zones in majority-Muslim areas are a part of the urban
landscape from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, with the French
government alone counting 751
of them. This shirking of responsibility foreshadows catastrophe and
calls for immediate reversal.
I call the bad parts of Europe's cities /partial no-go zones/ because
ordinary people in ordinary clothing at ordinary times can enter and
leave them without trouble. But they are no-go zones in the sense that
representatives of the state – police especially but also firefighters,
meter-readers, ambulance attendants, and social workers – can only enter
with massed power for temporary periods of time. If they disobey this
basic rule (as I learned first-hand in Marseille
), they
are likely to be swarmed, insulted, threatened, and even attacked.
Illustration on European "no-go" Muslim-dominated zones by Linas
Garsys/The Washington Times.
This situation needs not exist. Host societies can say no to the poor,
crime-ridden, violent, and rebellious areas emerging in their midst.
But, if governments need not abdicate control, why do they do so?
Because of a fervent, slightly desperate hope to avoid confrontation.
Multicultural policies offer the illusion of sidestepping anything that
might be construed as "racist" or "Islamophobic."
This abandonment is no minor aberration but a decision with grave
consequences – consequences far deeper than, say, not controlling a
crime-ridden American city like East St. Louis
.
That's because Muslim quasi-no-go zones fit into a far larger political
context, with dual Western and Islamic dimensions.
/
Cover of Pascal Bruckner's French cover of "The Tyranny of Guilt: An
Essay on Western Masochism."
Western/: Avoiding confrontation reflects a deep-seated ambivalence
about the value of one's own civilization and even self-hatred of the
white race. The French intellectual Pascal Bruckner
noted
in his 2006 book /La tyrannie de la pénitence/
(English: /The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism/) that
leftist thinking "can be reduced to mechanical denunciations of the
West, emphasizing the latter's hypocrisy, violence, and abomination."
Europeans preen as "the sick man of the planet" whose greed and false
notions of superiority causes every problem in the non-Western world:
"The white man has sown grief and ruin wherever he has gone."
If the deadly triad of imperialism, fascism, and racism represent all
that the West has to offer, no wonder immigrants to Europe, including
Islamists, are treated as superior beings due supine deference. They
exploit this by acting badly – drug dealers
ruling the roost, a gang
raping
1,400 children over a period of 16 years, and promoting violent
ideologies
– with near-impunity because, after all, the Europeans have only
themselves to blame.
/Muslim/: Partial no-go zones also result from an Islamic drive for
exclusion and domination. Mecca and Medina constitute the official,
sovereign, and eternal Muslim-only zones. For nearly fourteen centuries,
these two Arabian cities have been formally off-limits to /kafir/s, who
trespass at their peril; a lively literature of non-Muslims who
penetrated their holy precincts and lived to tell the tale goes back
centuries
and continues still today
.
Other Islamic no-go zones also exist. Before losing power in 1887, the
Muslim rulers of Harar, Somalia, for centuries insisted (in the words of
a British officer
)
on the "the exclusion of all travellers not of the Moslem faith." In
like spirit, women in hijabs
scream at non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to make
them feel unwelcome and so stay away. In the West, lawful Muslim-only
enclaves
represent one drive for Muslim autonomy and sovereignty; the Muslims of
America
organization, with its 15 or so no-go compounds bristling with arms and
hostility on private property dotted around the United States,
represents another.
A sign prohibiting non-Muslims from entering Mecca.
Unlike places like East St. Louis, Muslim-majority partial no-go zones
have a deeply political and highly ambitious quality to them. Indeed, it
is not far-fetched to foresee them turning into Muslim autonomous zones
applying Islamic law and challenging the authorities. The mix of feeble
European governments and a strong Islamic drive for power points to
future unrest, crises, breakdown, and even civil war.
Some believe it is
already too late to avoid this fate. I disagree, but if catastrophe is
to be avoided, the job to dismantle all partial no-go zones must be
started soon and executed with a swift determination based on a renewed
sense of self-worth. Two universal principles should guide European
governments: attaining a monopoly of force and applying the same code of
law to all citizens.
Domestic peace in Europe and perhaps other regions, including Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, demands nothing less.
Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org ,
-at-DanielPipes ) is president of the Middle
East Forum. /© 2015 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved./
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*Dec. 29, 2015 addendum*: This analysis builds on my first-hand
reporting published as "Muslim 'No-go Zones' in Europe?
" in the
/Daily Caller/ on Dec. 2, 2015.
*Related Topics:* Muslims in Europe
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