Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe

The Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe :: Daniel Pipes
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.

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.
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..."

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