Author: Soeren Kern
Publication: Hudson-ny.org
Date: August 22, 2011
URL: http://www.hudson-ny.org/2367/european-muslim-no-go-zones
Islamic extremists are stepping up the creation
of "no-go" areas in European cities that are off-limits to non-Muslims.
Many of the "no-go" zones function
as microstates governed by Islamic Sharia law. Host-country authorities effectively
have lost control in these areas and in many instances are unable to provide
even basic public aid such as police, fire fighting and ambulance services.
The "no-go" areas are the by-product
of decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged Muslim immigrants
to create parallel societies and remain segregated rather than become integrated
into their European host nations.
In Britain, for example, a Muslim group called
Muslims Against the Crusades has launched a campaign to turn twelve British
cities - including what it calls "Londonistan" - into independent
Islamic states. The so-called Islamic Emirates would function as autonomous
enclaves ruled by Islamic Sharia law and operate entirely outside British
jurisprudence.
The Islamic Emirates Project names the British
cities of Birmingham, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool,
Luton, Manchester, Sheffield, as well as Waltham Forest in northeast London
and Tower Hamlets in East London as territories to be targeted for blanket
Sharia rule.
In the Tower Hamlets area of East London (also
known as the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets), for example, extremist Muslim
preachers, called the Tower Hamlets Taliban, regularly issue death threats
to women who refuse to wear Islamic veils. Neighborhood streets have been
plastered with posters declaring "You are entering a Sharia controlled
zone: Islamic rules enforced." And street advertising deemed offensive
to Muslims is regularly vandalized or blacked out with spray paint.
In the Bury Park area of Luton, Muslims have
been accused of "ethnic cleansing" by harassing non-Muslims to the
point that many of them move out of Muslim neighborhoods. In the West Midlands,
two Christian preachers have been accused of "hate crimes" for handing
out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham. In Leytonstone
in east London, the Muslim extremist Abu Izzadeen heckled the former Home
Secretary John Reid by saying: "How dare you come to a Muslim area."
In France, large swaths of Muslim neighborhoods
are now considered "no-go" zones by French police. At last count,
there are 751 Sensitive Urban Zones (Zones Urbaines Sensibles, ZUS), as they
are euphemistically called. A complete list of the ZUS can be found on a French
government website, complete with satellite maps and precise street demarcations.
An estimated 5 million Muslims live in the ZUS, parts of France over which
the French state has lost control.
Muslim immigrants are taking control of other
parts of France too. In Paris and other French cities with high Muslim populations,
such as Lyons, Marseilles and Toulouse, thousands of Muslims are closing off
streets and sidewalks (and by extension, are closing down local businesses
and trapping non-Muslim residents in their homes and offices) to accommodate
overflowing crowds for Friday prayers. Some mosques have also begun broadcasting
sermons and chants of "Allahu Akbar" via loudspeakers into the streets.
The weekly spectacles, which have been documented
by dozens of videos posted on Youtube.com (here, here, here, here, here, here,
here, here and here), and which have been denounced as an "occupation
without tanks or soldiers," have provoked anger and disbelief. But despite
many public complaints, local authorities have declined to intervene because
they are afraid of sparking riots.
In the Belgian capital of Brussels (which
is 20% Muslim), several immigrant neighborhoods have become "no-go"
zones for police officers, who frequently are pelted with rocks by Muslim
youth. In the Kuregem district of Brussels, which often resembles an urban
war zone, police are forced to patrol the area with two police cars: one car
to carry out the patrols and another car to prevent the first car from being
attacked. In the Molenbeek district of Brussels, police have been ordered
not to drink coffee or eat a sandwich in public during the Islamic month of
Ramadan.
In Germany, Chief Police Commissioner Bernhard
Witthaut, in an August 1 interview with the newspaper Der Westen, revealed
that Muslim immigrants are imposing "no-go" zones in cities across
Germany at an alarming rate.
The interviewer asked Witthaut: "Are
there urban areas - for example in the Ruhr - districts and housing blocks
that are "no-go areas," meaning that they can no longer be secured
by the police?" Witthaut replied: "Every police commissioner and
interior minister will deny it. But of course we know where we can go with
the police car and where, even initially, only with the personnel carrier.
The reason is that our colleagues can no longer feel safe there in twos, and
have to fear becoming the victim of a crime themselves. We know that these
areas exist. Even worse: in these areas crimes no longer result in charges.
They are left 'to themselves.' Only in the worst cases do we in the police
learn anything about it. The power of the state is completely out of the picture."
In Italy, Muslims have been commandeering
the Piazza Venezia in Rome for public prayers. In Bologna, Muslims repeatedly
have threatened to bomb the San Petronio cathedral because it contains a 600-year-old
fresco inspired by Dante's Inferno which depicts Mohammed being tormented
in hell.
In the Netherlands, a Dutch court ordered
the government to release to the public a politically incorrect list of 40
"no-go" zones in Holland. The top five Muslim problem neighborhoods
are in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. The Kolenkit area in Amsterdam is
the number one Muslim "problem district" in the country. The next
three districts are in Rotterdam - Pendrecht, het Oude Noorden and Bloemhof.
The Ondiep district in Utrecht is in the fifth position, followed by Rivierenwijk
(Deventer), Spangen (Rotterdam), Oude Westen (Rotterdam), Heechterp/ Schieringen
(Leeuwarden) and Noord-Oost (Maastricht).
In Sweden, which has some of the most liberal
immigration laws in Europe, large swaths of the southern city of Malmö
- which is more than 25% Muslim - are "no-go" zones for non-Muslims.
Fire and emergency workers, for example, refuse to enter Malmö's mostly
Muslim Rosengaard district without police escorts. The male unemployment rate
in Rosengaard is estimated to be above 80%. When fire fighters attempted to
put out a fire at Malmö's main mosque, they were attacked by stone throwers.
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg, Muslim
youth have been hurling petrol bombs at police cars. In the city's Angered
district, where more than 15 police cars have been destroyed, teenagers have
also been pointing green lasers at the eyes of police officers, some of whom
have been temporarily blinded.
In Gothenburg's Backa district, youth have
been throwing stones at patrolling officers. Gothenburg police have also been
struggling to deal with the problem of Muslim teenagers burning cars and attacking
emergency services in several areas of the city.
According to the Malmö-based Imam Adly
Abu Hajar: "Sweden is the best Islamic state."