The mainstream media is running hard these days with the absurd idea that Sharia no-go zones in Europe are the “Islamophobic” fabrication of Fox News or Steve Emerson. This despite the fact that the New York Times, Newsweek and the New Republic, hardly conservative outlets, have all referred to them. And in this piece, Soeren Kern shows that numerous French analysts have referred to them as well. Will the Mayor of Paris, who has said she will sue Fox News over this, sue all of them also?
“European ‘No-Go’ Zones: Fact or Fiction?,” by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, January 20, 2015:
The jihadist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, has cast a spotlight on so-called no-go zones in France and other European countries.
No-go zones are Muslim-dominated neighborhoods that are largely off limits to non-Muslims due to a variety of factors, including the lawlessness and insecurity that pervades a great number of these areas. Host-country authorities have effectively lost control over many no-go zones and are often unable or unwilling to provide even basic public aid, such as police, fire fighting and ambulance services, out of fear of being attacked by Muslim youth.
Muslim enclaves in European cities are also breeding grounds for Islamic radicalism and pose a significant threat to Western security.
Europe’s no-go zones are the by-product of decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged Muslim immigrants to create parallel societies and remain segregated from — rather than become integrated into — their European host nations.
The problem of no-go zones is well documented, but multiculturalists and their politically correct supporters vehemently deny that they exist. Some are now engaged in a concerted campaign to discredit and even silence those who draw attention to the issue.
Consider Carol Matlack, an American writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, who recently penned a story — entitled “Debunking the Myth of Muslim-Only Zones in Major European Cities” — in which she claims that no-go zones are nothing more than an “urban legend” that is “demonstrably untrue.” She then goes on to ridicule those who disagree with her.
The American cable television channel Fox News has also issued at least four apologies for referring to Muslim no-go zones in Europe, after one commentator erroneously claimed that the entire city of Birmingham, England, was Muslim. Had he simply said that “parts” of Birmingham are Muslim, he would have been correct.
Despite such politically correct denials, Muslim no-go zones are a well-known fact of life in many parts of Europe.
What follows is the first in a multi-part series that will document the reality of Europe’s no-go zones. The series begins by focusing on France and provides a brief compilation of just a few of the literally thousands of references to French no-go zones from academic, police, media and government sources that can easily be found on the Internet by doing a simple search on Google.
Fabrice Balanche, a well-known French Islam scholar who teaches at the University of Lyon, recently told Radio Télévision Suisse: “You have territories in France such as Roubaix, such as northern Marseille, where police will not step foot, where the authority of state is completely absent, where mini Islamic states have been formed.”
French writer and political journalist Éric Zemmour recently told BFM TV: “There are places in France today, especially in the suburbs, where it is not really in France. Salafi Islamists are Islamizing some neighborhoods and some suburbs. In these neighborhoods, it’s not France, it’s an Islamic republic.” In a separate interview, Zemmour — whose latest book is entitled, “The French Suicide” — says multiculturalism and the reign of politically correct speech is destroying the country.
French politician Franck Guiot wrote that parts of Évry, a township in the southern suburbs of Paris, are no-go zones where police forces cannot go for fear of being attacked. He said that politicians seeking to maintain “social peace” were prohibiting the police from using their weapons to defend themselves.
The Socialist mayor of Amiens, Gilles Demailly, has referred to the Fafet-Brossolette district of the city as a “no-go zone” where “you can no longer order a pizza or get a doctor to come to the house.” Europe 1, one of the leading broadcasters in France, has referred to Marseille as a “no-go zone” after the government was forced to deploy riot police, known as CRS, to confront warring Muslim gangs in the city. The French Interior Ministry said it was trying to “reconquer” 184 square kilometers (71 square miles) of Marseille that have come under the control of Muslim gangs.
The French newspaper Le Figaro has referred to downtown Perpignan as a “veritable no-go zone” where “aggression, antisocial behavior, drug trafficking, Muslim communalism, racial tensions and tribal violence” are forcing non-Muslims to move out. Le Figaro also reported that the Les Izards district of Toulouse was a no-go zone, where Arab drug trafficking gangs rule the streets in a climate of fear.
Separately, Le Figaro reported that large quantities of assault rifles are circulating in French no-go zones. “For a few hundred dollars you can buy Kalashnikovs,” political scientist Sebastian Roché said. “The price of an iPhone!”
The newspaper France Soir published poll results showing that nearly 60% of French citizens are in favor of sending the army into troubled suburbs to restore order.
The newspaper Le Parisien has called parts of Grigny, a township in the southern suburbs of Paris, a “lawless zone” plagued by well-organized Muslim gangs, whose members believe they are “masters of the world.” The weekly newsmagazine Le Point reported on the spiraling Muslim lawlessness in the French city of Grenoble.
The French magazine L’Obs (formerly known as Le Nouvel Observateur) has reported on the deteriorating security situation in Roubaix, a city in northern France that is located close to the Belgian border. The magazine reported that local citizens are “exiled within their own country” and want to create their own militia to restore order because police are afraid to confront Muslim gangs.
In August 2014, the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Contemporary Values) reported that “France has more than 750 areas of lawlessness” where the law of the French Republic no longer applies. Under the headline “Hell in France,” the magazine said that many parts of France are experiencing a “dictatorship of riffraff” where police are “greeted by mortar fire” and are “forced to retreat by projectiles.”
Separately, Valeurs Actuelles reported on the lawlessness in Trappes, a township located in the western suburbs of Paris, where radical Islam and endemic crime go hand in hand. “Criminals are pursued by Islamic fundamentalists to impose an alternative society, breaking links with the French Republic,” according to local police commander Mohammed Duhan. It is not advisable to go there, he says, adding, “You will be spotted by so-called chauffeurs (lookouts for drug traffickers) and be stripped and smashed.”
Valeurs Actuelles has also reported on no-go zones in Nantes, Tours and Orléans, which have turned into “battlefields” where the few remaining native French holdouts are confronted with “Muslim communalism, the disappearance of their cultural references and rampant crime.”
A graphic 20-minute documentary (in French) about the no-go zone in Clichy Montfermeil, a suburb of Paris, can be viewed here. At around the 3-minute mark, the video shows what happens when French police enter the area.
A policeman uses a shotgun to try to keep an attacking gang at bay, in the Parisian suburb of Clichy Montfermeil. (Image source: Dailymotion video screenshot)
A 1.5 hour documentary (in French) produced by France’s TF1 about Muslim gangs in Parisian no-go zones can be viewed here. A 50-minute documentary (in French) produced by France’s TV3 about the no-go zones of Clos Saint-Lazare in northern Paris can be viewed here. A 45-minute documentary (in English) about the no-go zones of Marseilles can be viewed here.
A four-minute video of the most dangerous neighborhoods of France in 2014 can be viewed here. A three-and-a-half-minute video of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Greater Paris Metropolitan Area can be viewed here. A two-minute video of a no-go zone in Lille can be viewed here. A five-minute video about life in the suburbs of Lyon can be viewed here.
A Russian television (Russia-1) documentary about no-go zones in Paris can be viewed here. The presenter says: “We are in Paris, the Barbès quarter, a few minutes from the famous Montmartre. Finding a European here is almost a mission impossible. Certain Paris streets remind one of an oriental bazaar.” He continues: “The Paris banlieues have become criminal ghettoes where even the police dare not enter.” Hidden cameras record widespread lawlessness and drug dealing in the area.
A 120-page research paper entitled “No-Go Zones in the French Republic: Myth or Reality?” documented dozens of French neighborhoods “where police and gendarmerie cannot enforce the Republican order or even enter without risking confrontation, projectiles, or even fatal shootings.”
Some of the most notorious no-go zone areas in France are situated in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, a northeastern suburb (banlieue) of Paris that has one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in France. The department is home to an estimated 600,000 Muslims (primarily from North and West Africa) out of a total population of 1.4 million.
Seine-Saint-Denis is divided into 40 administrative districts called communes (townships), 36 of which are on the French government’s official list of “sensitive urban zones” or ZUS.
Seine-Saint-Denis — also known locally as “ninety-three” or “nine three” after the first two digits of the postal code for this suburb — has one of the highest unemployment rates in France; more than 40% of those under the age of 25 are jobless. The area is plagued with drug dealing and suffers from some of the highest rates of violent crime in France.
In October 2011, a landmark 2,200-page report, “Banlieue de la République” (Suburbs of the Republic) found that Seine-Saint-Denis and other Parisian suburbs are becoming “separate Islamic societies” cut off from the French state, and where Islamic Sharia law is rapidly displacing French civil law. The report said that Muslim immigrants are increasingly rejecting French values and instead are immersing themselves in radical Islam.
The report — which was commissioned by the influential French think tank, L’Institut Montaigne — was directed by Gilles Kepel, a highly respected political scientist and specialist in Islam, together with five other French researchers.
The authors of the report showed that France — which now has 6.5 million Muslims (the largest Muslim population in European Union) — is on the brink of a major social explosion because of the failure of Muslims to integrate into French society.
The report also showed how the problem is being exacerbated by radical Muslim preachers, who are promoting the social marginalization of Muslim immigrants in order to create a parallel Muslim society in France that is ruled by Sharia law.
The research was primarily carried out in the Seine-Saint-Denis townships of Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, two suburbs that were ground zero for Muslim riots in the fall of 2005, when Muslim mobs torched more than 9,000 cars.
The report described Seine-Saint-Denis as a “wasteland of de-industrialization” and said that in some areas, “a third of the population of the town does not hold French nationality, and many residents are drawn to an Islamic identity.”
Another township of Seine-Saint-Denis is Aubervilliers. Sometimes referred to as one of the “lost territories of the French Republic,” it is effectively a Muslim city: more than 70% of the population is Muslim. Three quarters of young people under 18 in the township are foreign or French of foreign origin, mainly from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. French police are said to rarely venture into some of the most dangerous parts of the township.
The southern part of Aubervilliers is well known for its vibrant Chinese immigrant community along with their wholesale clothing and textile warehouses and import-export shopping malls. In August 2013, the weekly newsmagazine Marianne reported that Muslim immigrants felt humiliated by the economic dynamism of the Chinese, and were harassing and attacking Chinese traders, who were increasingly subject to robberies and extortion. The situation got so bad that the Chinese ambassador to France was forced to pay a visit to the area.
In response, the Socialist mayor of Aubervilliers, Jacques Salvator, suggested that the violence could be halted if Chinese companies would agree to hire more Arabs and Africans. The Chinese countered that Muslims do not work as hard as the Chinese, that they are more demanding, and that they complain too much, according to Marianne.
After local officials refused to act in the face of increasing Muslim violence, the Chinese threatened to “call on the Chinese mafia” for protection. Muslims responded by launching a petition to have the Chinese expelled from the area.
Also in Aubervilliers, the magazine Charlie Hebdo reported in 2012 that the town hall was obligating non-Muslim men who want to marry Muslim women to convert to Islam first, even though France is ostensibly a secular republic. One such man, Frédéric Gilbert, a journalist, was told:
“You can convert in any mosque in three minutes. All you need do is to repeat ‘with conviction and sincerity’ this sentence: ‘I recognize that there is no god but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet,’ and the Imam will agree that you have converted to Islam.'”
In a story entitled, “When Town Hall Mayors become Imams,” Charlie Hebdo wrote:
“In other words, Moroccan law prevails over French law in cases of mixed marriages and the same situation pertains with regard to other former French colonies such as Tunisia and Algeria as well as with Egypt.”
According to the newspaper Le Parisien, the practice of “false conversions” to Islam is widespread because most non-Muslim grooms prefer fake conversions rather than to suffer “administrative complications.”
In 2014, Le Figaro published the contents of a leaked intelligence document that warns about the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in French schools in Muslim ghettoes. The 15-page document provides 70 specific examples of how Muslim radicals are taking over ostensibly secular schools throughout the country. These include: veiling in playgrounds, halal meals in the canteen, chronic absenteeism (bordering 90% in some parts of Nîmes and Toulouse) during religious festivals, clandestine prayer in gyms or hallways. The report details how “self-proclaimed young guardians of orthodoxy” are circumventing the March 2004 law banning religious symbols in French schools. In Marseille, a high school principal testified that some of her students pray with such fervor that they have “blue foreheads.”
A video showing a radical Islamic rally in Saint-Denis can be viewed here. A video showing radical Muslims commandeering a French bus amid screams of “Allahu Akbar!” (Allah is greater!) can be viewed here. A series of eight videos documenting Muslim street prayers in Paris can be viewed here. (Street prayers have now been outlawed.) A series of 25 videos documenting the Islamization of France can be viewed here.
In July 2012, the French government announced a plan to reassert state control over 15 of the most notorious no-go zones. The crime-infested districts, which the French Interior Ministry has designated as Priority Security Zones (Zones de Sécurité Prioritaires, or ZSP), include heavily Muslim parts of Amiens, Aubervilliers, Avignon, Béziers, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Marseilles, Montpellier, Mulhouse, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Perpignan, Strasbourg, Toulouse and many others. The number of ZSPs now stands at 64; a complete list of ZSPs can be found here.
Meanwhile, a 13-minute Hungarian television documentary (with English subtitles) about no-go zones in Paris can be viewed here. The presenter interviews a French crime reporter named Laurent Obertone, who is the author of a bestselling new book entitled, “La France Orange Méchanique” (France: A Clockwork Orange).
In his book, Obertone writes that France is descending into a state of savagery and that the true magnitude of crime and violence across the country is being deliberately under-reported by politically correct media, government and police.
In the documentary, Obertone states: “The French elite became outraged when [former French President Nicolas] Sarkozy referred to [Muslim] immigrants attacking police as ‘mobs’.”
The Hungarian presenter then asks: “What if we went to the suburbs?” Obertone replies: “I do not recommend this. Not even we French dare go there anymore. But nobody talks about this in public, of course. Nor do those who claim, ‘long live multiculturalism,’ and ‘Paris is wonderful!’ dare enter the suburbs.”
A policeman uses a shotgun to try to keep an attacking gang at bay, in the Parisian suburb of Clichy Montfermeil. (Image source: Dailymotion video screenshot)
rev g says
If they have no-go zones for non-muslims, then all other areas should be no-go zones for muslims. Simple enough.
katnis says
Great idea. We can watch the muslim – non-muslim experiment in places like Turkey. The muslims go zones are places like Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, and Yemen. The no-go zones are places like all of Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and NZ.
We don’t need to mention places like Russia because Putin made his opinion on muslim immigrants pretty clear. Japan hasn’t been all that welcoming either. Good for them.
blake says
the whole country should be no go zones for muslims. we don’t want muslims in our country
Kevin Walker says
What does yours or mine opinion counts these days??
It’s the word of over ‘Lords’ (the politicians) which rules over life, society & country.
This kind of ignorance, willful blindness, treachery is unprecedented.
Xero_G says
Robert Spencer has just provided the Fox News Legal Dept with enough expert-witness info to have any lawsuit dismissed. I hope a check is in the mail to Robert from Fox Legal.
katnis says
What incredible research. Thanks for compiling and sharing with your readers. I suggest we all send this article to our buddies at Fox. Maybe today’s news on Fox will be… “We feel stupid and we let you down. We apologize for our apology.”
Ross says
The Mayor of Paris will not sue because the truth will come out. She is playing the denial card through the media without having to actually sue. We know the truth. Yet, they continue to insult our intelligence. Then they will wonder why they have a revolution on their hands.
dave b says
Lund park,Keighley,west yorkshire , england.no go area.see Keighley news
Holy Prophet APF says
Equality is justice. And I certainly agree with that. So, if Emerson got carried away, go ahead and report on his hyperbole. But, by doing so, it becomes incumbent on our news entertainers to also report on the bald-faced lies told by Islamic apologists that there is no linkage between the Hebdo mass murders and Islam, when the Holy Prophet Mohammed himself ordered contract murders on those who dared to criticize him. It’s called the Sunna, and it is easily discovered and verified.
Except, wait a minute, there is no such incumbency inside the protective cloak of fictive reality.
Ursula says
Why doesn’t Carol Matlack go to one of those zones, walking around in it, to find out how long she will last without getting, raped, robbed or even killed? Those zones are all over Europe, the Muslims are taking over Europe. It is an undeniable fact.
Angemon says
Somehow, I think the leftists and islamic apologists already have their narrative set: Fox said there were muslim no-go zones and Fox admitted that claim was false apologized for it. And they won’t change it just because of facts and stuff.
DaffersD says
Nice job, that should do it, Fox News should do a programme on it just to make it clear.
KrazyKafir says
Gee, I wonder why Fox News can’t come up with a similar effort as Robert Spence has just done in demonstrating the truth about the existence of, many, many, infidel no-go zones on the European front.
Edison says
I have read most of Robert Spencer’s books, thorough, factual, comprehensive research is his trade mark. Kudos Robert
Bro. Nick Nicholas says
The denial of the well known existence of ‘Go-No Go Zones’ where the followers of Mohammedanism live in isolation in many European cities is but one of many facets of delusion and attack upon that which truly is “the truth” that is occurring all around the world.
There are some very Biblically sound people that have come to the understanding that nearly every
‘head of state’, and their staffs, and their advisors of the countries all around the world {which includes
Vatican City, officially led by ‘the pope’} – that they are either under strong Satanic influence’ – or directly under his malevolent control – which certainly explains the officially accepted outright Satanically inspired lies against
– that Mohammedanism {aka Islam} is ‘a religion of peace’
– that there are no Mohammedan ‘Go-No Go Zones’ in European cities
– ISRAEL & the JEWS | “the Lord God Almighty” & ‘Biblical CHRISTianity
– the socially acceptable ‘legalized murder’ of unborn children {aka ‘abortion’}
– the social acceptance and ‘legalization of’ Sodomy and Lesbianism {aka ‘same sex unions’ and ‘marriage’}
– and of many other legal, commonly accepted and often personally desired abominations against “the Lord God Almighty”
Lucifer ‘the light bearer’ is blinding the minds and keeping the lost world – which includes ‘Apostate Ecumenical-Interfaith Christendom & ChriSlam’ – in a state of ignorance, denial and confusion. “The truth” to the eyes of the lost is like ‘looking thru a glass of very muddy water’ – and the lost do not know that the devil hates all mankind, and will use whomever/whatever he can to ‘snare’ with his “wiles” – read Ephesians 6:11-12 | 1 Peter 5:8 [KJB]
– truly – just as “the Lord Jesus Christ” personally told His disciples in Luke 17:1-2 [KJB]:
“It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
“And GOD saw that the WICKEDNESS of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” – (Gen 6:5 [KJB])
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately WICKED: who can know it?” – (Jer 17:9 [KJB])
“The WICKED walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.” – (Ps 12:8 [KJB])
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:
but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” – (Prov 29:2 [KJB])
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wildjew says
If someone can find this interview Gov. Bobby Jindal on Neil Cavuto right now (1/21/2015 at 4:25 PM) talking about the no-go zones in England and France. To his credit Jindal is not backing down at all.
Cavuto: “So you aren’t taking it back?”
Jindal: “Absolutely not…..”
gravenimage says
Thanks for that information, wildjew. Bravo, Bobby Jindal!
gerard says
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/21/bobby-jindal-defends-no-go-zones-myth-foxs-john/202225
mortimer says
It all depends how you translate ‘no-go zone’ into French which has no exact equivalent.
Choices are 1) zone interdite 2) zone d’accès interdit 3) zone d’interdiction 4) zone d’exclusion, but a better choice is probably 5) zone dangereuse or 6) zone islamiste.
The ‘no-go zones’ referred to are obviously ‘zones dangereuses’ and they are certainly ‘zones islamistes’.
Bright American with an idea says
I have an idea. Let’s all cut and paste this article and send it to Fox News asking then to run a rebuttal to Anne Hildalgo.
We can also ask that Fox support Sean Hannity and the people on his “The Rise of Radical Islam” saturday special, instead of pulling the rug out from under them, as it is becoming more obvious that they told us the truth all along, not the talking heads posing as our leaders.
Just an thought?
katnis says
I’ve already sent an email to Fox. Hope that others do the same.
Peter says
In his book, “Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War” (2009), Moorthy S. Muthuswamy described a similar Islamization strategy in India: the Muslim community is forced into conformity and greater piety, resulting in greater economic hardship, which is then exploited by the Islamic clerics as leverage for demands on the state due to “grievances” and minority “victimhood,” and non-Muslims are forced out of (cleansed from) Muslim-majority areas.
Anyone see a pattern here?
danny says
The level of Islamically-inspired satanic manipulation is great in Europe, only God will save her, else in less than 100yrs time, Europe is bound to be destroyed from within.
I am surprised seeing a whole continent protecting a group of people that are bent on destroying her from within. It is like shielding an assailant who is in my house to kill me and rape and my wife and daughters.
I think a great judgement is visiting Europe, and they cant stop it.
William Ash says
The entire UK is a No-Go Zone for both Robert and Pamela Gellar, that’s enough proof for me!
wildjew says
Bobby Jindal won’t back down on ‘no-go zone’ comments
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/bobby-jindal-no-go-zone-comments-114464.html#ixzz3PV50j6hk
Swede says
Really Mr Spencer? Are you going to use facts again. You can prove anything that’s true with facts don’t you know!
This night swedish television ran a documentary about antisemitism i Malmö. The filmmaker, not jewish himself, wore a yarmulke while walking through some of Malmö’s infamous No-go-zones with a hidden camera. Apart from the overwhelming harassment from countless people of all ages (but the same religion) some “youths” whiting minutes called their friends saying “there is a jew here, let’s throw eggs at him” and soon enough eggs were flying towards the undercover filmmaker.
Some do-gooder explained that it really isn’t that bad though. As long as you don’t show you’re jewish. At least it’s not as bad as in France, someone added.
If a jew can’t GO INTO THE ZONE in question without risking his dignity, health and in worst case life… I wonder, is there a fitting word for such places?
Michael Copeland says
Useful tip: what the press like to call, rhymingly, “White Flight” is actually White Drive-Out.
Jo says
Hi Robert,
Just so you know, the movie you refer to is staged. It’s not a real documentary.
Cheers
Robert Spencer says
I didn’t refer to any movie and have no idea what you’re talking about.
wildjew says
Bobby Jindal won’t back down on ‘no-go zone’ comments
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/bobby-jindal-no-go-zone-comments-114464.html?hp=r3_4
wildjew says
Netanyahu invited to address Congress on Iran
White House says it was not informed of Netanyahu’s plans; invitation comes day after Obama said he would veto legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran.
Associated Press
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4617718,00.html
rev g says
They invited him to speak in front of Congress, not to visit the White House. It’s a “Congressional Order”…suck it Obama.
William says
If you tell the person standing next to you in front of a stove whose top is hot that the stove top is hot, and that person denies that it is so, shouldn’t the denier be asked to put his or her hand on the stove to demonstrate the falsity of the claim that the stove top is hot? I say that the onus is on the deniers to prove that no-go zones don’t exist. They should prove it by going to those areas and staying there a few hours, without a whole squadron of armed police or military escorts.
gravenimage says
European ‘No-Go’ Zones: Fact or Fiction?
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The most Steve Emerson is “guilty” of is omission of the word “parts” of Birmingham, rather than Birmingham as a whole. This in no way negates the existence of Muslim No-Go Zones in Britain and the rest of Europe.
Birmingham—where my mother was born—is now over *one-fifth* Muslim, with the expected rise in violence and creeping Shari’ah,
Three and a half years ago Muslims rioted in Birmingham. One looter said, “Anger because the police nick you for stupid things. Now this is our payback because they can’t do nothing to us today. The police can’t do nothing.”
In other words, Muslims there don’t recognize British authority at all.
There were similar riots there in 2005, so this is not a new phenomenon.
And during that riot, it was not just police who were targeted—firefighters arriving to put out fires were met with machete-wielding mobs.
This is, in fact, a very common aspect of No-Go Zones, where firefighters and ambulances cannot enter without police protection. Police often have to patrol in pairs, because it is not safe to patrol alone. In the worst No-Go Zones, police will not get out of their cars without additional backup—in the worst of the worst, police need *military* backup in order to function.
All of this is intended to keep out Infidel authorities, and it largely works. In their absence, many of these areas have Shari’ah patrols, which do not, of course, enforce civilized laws, but instead Islamic strictures such as harassing unveiled women and threatening those selling or purchasing alcohol. Robbing, raping, and even murdering Infidels, needless to say, are not regarded as crimes at all.
Honor Killings in such zones are estimated to be very high, as is FGM. Of course, such crimes are rarely reported at all.
The mayor of Birmingham is Muslim—Shafique Shah. He says—laughably—that “Certainly Islam doesn’t promote any kind of violence against anyone”.
Oddly, he takes offense at the idea that Birmingham is largely Muslim—then he says this: “it’s brought people of Birmingham together. They are very proud to be a British citizen and also very proud to belong to a Muslim religion.”
This implies that he considers most residents of Birmingham to be Muslim—or at least believes that they are the ones who count.
In the last census, Birmingham was 22% Muslim—and may be over one-quarter Muslim now.
And Birmingham, of course, is hardly alone. Blackburn is worse, at almost 30% Muslim; and Bradford, which is over 30% Muslim. There are Muslim No-Go Zones in other parts of England, including London, and in Paris and Malmö, Sweden. Marseille is now 40% Muslim. It is, not coincidentally, France’s most dangerous city. Rotterdam is one-quarter Muslim, and also has a Muslim mayor. Brussels is also one-quarter Muslim. Stockholm is one-fifth Muslim.
All of these cities have sky-rocketing rates of crime—especially robbery and rape, that coincide with their Islamization over the past 20-30 years.
That Muslims and their useful idiots are using Emerson’s mild gaffe as an occasion to deny these amply chronicled facts is appalling—but hardly surprising.
Kepha says
Back in the early ’90’s, the Uyghur migrants behind the Guangzhou train station kept out the PRC police because the authorities dared to try to “convince” some of the few women in the community to comply with the One Child Policy, and made the area something of a no-go zone (so I found out after buying bagels, pizza crusts, and raisins there). I understand that in the 1970’s and ’80’s, while the USSR still stood, the Chechens pulled the same thing in parts of Kazakhstan where they had been exiled during WWII. If they can do it with a totalitarian state’s apparatus of repression, they can do it where the police are constrained by laws.
gravenimage says
Very true, Kepha. Muslims will, of course, use any of the West’s soft points to gain power, but they will try to take over *wherever* they are—and if they can’t identify any intrinsic weakness will often just rely on violence and fear.
Bezelel says
So we are not supposed to use the term no-go-zone unless the government actually makes an official declaration and posts the signage,in spite of the facts. And of course if they do, it will have nothing to do with islam because terrorism must be used in a broader sense even if it doesn’t make any sense.
If I can’t wear an ” I love Israel” tee shirt in the public without needing protection, it is a no-go-zone. Typical leftist strategy to start a war of semantics to deflect the narrative. Let the elitist insulated Mayor go on a stroll through the contested areas wearing a Star of David printed on her clothing. Go out and mingle girl. Show Me.
Dave J says
These concentrated Muslim areas are exactly what they want – mini-caliphates within the host country where they can impose Shariah law and keep the civil police out. There is no desire for assimilation, only a slow takeover of the entire country as these zones grow and coalesce together.
But its everyone else’s fault for not just turning the whole country over to them to begin with, paying the jizra tax and preferably committing suicide – which they actually are doing in slow motion.
The USA is next.
Arthur says
WOW! If information is power, this article is megawatts of truth!
SSI01 says
In my former life, prior to retirement, we periodically had to visit the Robert Taylor Homes on the South side of Chicago. This is a well-known war zone within the city, similar to Cabrini Green on the near West side – as I recall. Despite being in civilian clothing and operating plain vehicles we were “made” the moment we entered the perimeter of the project. However, most denizens kept their distance and merely observed what we were doing, or went about their business. The video clips shown in the article depict an environment far and away more hostile than the worst Chicago, Detroit, New York, or any other American city could offer to a police officer. Note they were directly confronting a police officer holding a (presumably) loaded shotgun. The French and other nations who have allowed this condition to fester to the point of becoming an existential threat have only themselves to blame. I’m all for just barricading the places off, and confining the inhabitants permanently to those areas. The inhabitants either need to assimilate or be deported.
Jack says
“A graphic 20-minute documentary (in French) about the no-go zone in Clichy Montfermeil, a suburb of Paris, can be viewed here. At around the 3-minute mark, the video shows what happens when French police enter the area.”
This is not a documentary but actually a fictional movie/series check the last minutes, where you can see them recording the police scene.
Joseph says
Here’s the official list, in French, put out by the French government, of the 751 so called “Zones Urbaines Sensibles” (ZUS)(“Sensitive Urban Areas”).
These “No Go Zones” definitely do exist. And the French know it very well. Facts and evidence are stubborn things indeed.
http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Atlas/ZUS/
jack says
My comment was in no way meant to discredit that claim. I live in Europe and am well aware of the problems we are facing here, however using this to make that point will only provide the islamophobes with ways to discredit this article and its author and website it was published on.
Uncle Vladdi says
Why would ANY “islamophobes” want to discredit an article proving islam’s scariness?!
Jack says
You’re right. I meant the ones calling us islamophobes. Just saying it would be prudent to take it out as there is enough other material proving the point. Now someone could cherrypick this to discredit the author.
Jennifer says
I can only comment on Birmingham (UK), a city I know pretty well.
Birmingham City Council did nobody any favours when it played down the claims by Fox News. There IS an issue in Birmingham – in particular, sharia law which, some claim, is practised in parts of Birmingham and is the reason for disproportionately low numbers of Muslims entering the justice system; it is alleged that local Imams dish up the justice (pity the women).
This observation, made by police and/or government officials in Birmingham, is in the public domain.
But, whilst Fox News was exaggerating (in my experience), there are parts of Birmingham that might be considered unpleasant if you are a white non-Muslim female. I find the niqab highly offensive in a country where women’s rights, which are as yet imperfect (I refer to unequal pay) have been hard-fought. Therefore I avoid Balsall Heath, Sparkhill and Sparkbrook where I know I will see women dressed in such a way.
Having said that, if you want really good curry, these might be the ideal places to go.
I must say, though, when I saw rats the size of cats running along the edge of Sparkhill Park, I was aghast. Never seen that before.
I can understand therefore why Birmingham councillors might be at pains to avoid embroiling themselves in a spat that might incur more expenditure in any way. The Council is in big trouble, financially after it got stung for a massive bill – unpaid wages after losing, funnily enough, a huge equal pay claim. But they are cowards nevertheless.
mortimer says
Jennifer, In other words, WOMEN are the ones who will MOST notice it’s a no-go zone! Those carrying alcoholic drinks will be targeted next.
Lawyer Gavin Boby has lots of contacts who have had the experience, “F-off! This is a Muslim area! Cover yourself …you XXXXXX!” The exchanges between ordinary English people and the Sharia vigilantes have been captured on cell phones.
JeffS says
Women and Jews.
Lia Wissing says
Why don’t all those journalists and people who know (like the compilers of the ‘no-go’ report) band together and sue the lady?
stephen says
Have you read ‘The Islamic Republic of Dewsbury’?
Please do. It’s by Danny Lockwood and available on kindle. Muslim no-go areas have been long established in part of the UK…….
Laura says
I would stop all benefits, turn off the electricity and gas, and then when they riot…take them on!
mortimer says
What you described is the types of harassment the Islamists are actually using to get indigenous English, French, Belgian, Dutch people to move out of the neighborhoods they lived in all their lives!
You forgot to mention ‘CUTTING THE TV CABLE’…repeatedly…a favorite! Ask Lawyer Gavin Boby.
BC says
Gatestone Institute January 20 2015 cites two reports, one thousands of pages long, about the existence of these areas.
BC says
Sorry I had not read the complete article. The reports are cited here also.
Jonathan Nicholas says
Western governments continue to deny the facts because to admit what is really going on would be too dreadful to contemplate. I’m just wondering how long the pretence can be sustained. Another year? Two years? five years? The sheer demographics and the urge to be politically correct will soon make the situation permanently irretrievable.
I really don’t understand why our leaders are acquiescing to such an extent.
BC says
The population of Muslims in Birmingham is now 22%
Bradford 25%
Luton 25 %
Given the rate of births in Islamic families versus the low rate in non Muslims families it is very likely
that these cities/boroughs will pass into the control of Muslim councils by mid century.
mortimer says
This may be a war over the descriptive vocabulary!
French has no exact equivalent for ‘no-go zone’. Different translators use different ways of conveying the thought and some just use the English ‘no-go zone’ in quotes.
These ‘Islamist zones’ could be called ‘zones islamistes’ or ‘zones dangereuses’ or ‘zones intégristes’ (fundamentalist zones) to describe what is actually happening there: a religiously-motivated rebellion against French culture in an Islamist-majority neighborhood.
mortimer says
They are most definitely ‘zones d’hostilité islamiste’ (Islamic hostility zones).
Miriam Feldstein Case says
Wake up USA! We must not be so tolerant and P.C. We will have the same thing here.Why can’t the Muslim people, who don’t want to assimilate, go to Muslim countries where they can practice their religion without disturbing others? This is pure lunacy and it better be STOPPED before we rise up and ship them anywhere but the USA.
Judi says
And when Eric Pickles, the Culture Secretary, sent letters to 1000 inmans requesting them (in the politest of terms for fear of offending them) not to incite the muzzrats in their sermons, the whole muzzrat community are offended and up in arms! Unbelievable!!
BARRY says
This article is spot-on accurate. And I do not disagree with the need for this article, as it as always good to know, and document, the facts. After all, the Mayor may be entitled to her own opinion, but she is not entitled to her own false facts.
As to the Mayor of Paris suing, I would say: Bring it on.
andy says
No go zones area is a Reality! You can Check it in youtube for evidence. No Go Zones or sharia zone is the muslim tactics and strategies to conquer the society. Slowly but sure europe and US will dominate by sharia. Unless civil society rise up and fight this demonic ideology
Uncle Vladdi says
Frog TV once fabricated the staged death scene of an alleged muslim child in ‘palestine’ by ‘Israelis.’
Did the Frog government sue them for bringing their country into disrepute on the world stage? NO.
Besides, the Frog government officially designated their over 751 no-go muslim areas as “ZUS” (Zones Urbaines Sensitifs) so they know damn-well that they exist, and that they have no intention of challenging any of these seditious affronts to their authority.
Bob says
Mr. Spencer, it would be very useful if someone would/could map these no go zones out on tourist city and or country maps. Most Muslim apologists like to read books with very large print and lots of pictures so to display these areas graphiclly might go a long way to convince some in the lame stream media. RLW
Erik says
I live in Amsterdam, and three are no go zones here and in Rotteram, The Hague, Brussels , Berlin, Paris, Londonistan etc
Everywhere where you find large concentrations of muslims they create their apartheid.
In some cases like in London there are even patrols of some kind of a sharia police.
epistemology says
I only know about Britain, France and Germany, there are no-go zones for indigenous people in certain cities. No doubt about that. But our politicians and the media love to spread the Islamic veil, that’s multiculturalism, folks. Muzzies and their apologists con the world.
Synophion says
Am looking forward to your next instalment, especially on the one which focuses on England. I also personally keep a very close eye on events in Sweden [Malmo of course is having serious Mohammedan problems] considering how it has been so badly affected by its Hard Left open door immigration policies.
William Lucas HarveyJr. says
“WHAT ! FOX now ‘Kowtows’ to ISLAM and CAIR ??”
FOX ‘Kowtows’ to CAIR’s ‘Intimidation’ , and is ‘Forced’ by CAIR to Apologize for Speaking the TRUTH !! If so then ‘Aparenty’ the Muslim Islamic Jihadists now not only ‘Control’ the well DOCUMENTED Muslim Islamist ‘Pandering’ Obama Administration White House, and most of the Liberal News Media, they NOW ‘Seem’ to ‘Control’ the ONE of the FEW Bastion’s of Sanity Truth and Honesty left in the News, i.e. Fox News”.
Article Excerpts:
Designated Terrorist Group CAIR demands FOX News fire its ‘Islamophobic’ commentators.
Named by the UAE as a dangerous terrorist group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on Fox News to stop using “Islamophobic” commentators after counter-terrorism expert Steven Emerson was forced to apologize online for accurately claiming that a city in the UK is “totally Muslim, where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in.”
On Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” Emerson said:
“In Britain, it’s not just no-go zones, there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim, where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in. And parts of London, there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound, seriously, anyone who doesn’t dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire. So there’s a situation that Western Europe is not dealing with.”
Some of MANY) Article Links on CAIR forces Fox News:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/01/12/designated-terrorist-group-cair-demands-fox-news-fire-its-islamophobic-commentators/
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/69157 Fox News “Apologizes” to Radical Islam.
http://kristiannp1.com/2015/01/12/ctiph/ Designated Terrorist Group CAIR-HAMAS demands FOX News fire its ‘Islamophobic’ commentators!!
http://dudewithanattitude.com/designated-terrorist-group-cair-demands-fox-news-fire-its-islamophobic-commentators/
http://www.jamiiforums.com/international-forum/787796.. Designated Terrorist Group CAIR demands FOX News fire …
http://polforumblogroll.blogspot.com/2015/01/fwd-new-post-designated-terrorist-group_13.html
My Internet Posted Comment/Opinion: “This is TOTAL B.S. to be ‘Forced’ to Apologize for the TRUTH. There IS MUCH DOCUMENTED Proof that this is TRUE, not just in the U.K. but also NOW in the U.S.A., see 22 JIHAD TRAINING CAMPS IN USA- FBI REFUSES TO TAKE ACTION!”
See Just ONE Map/Link of America’s Muslim Islamic ‘Enclaves’ and ‘No Go Zones’, Link Below (of MANY such Maps/Links Available from World News Sites):
http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2014/08/10/22-jihad-training-camps-in-usa-fbi-refuses-to-take-action/