The British journalist Andrew Malone some time ago visited the Muslim enclave of Seine-Saint-Denis northeast of Paris. His report on what he rightly called a “state within a state” was hair-raising — so much so that the Daily Mail ultimately removed it after charges of “Islamophobia.” The Guardian reported that “a Daily Mail source insisted the article had only been taken off the site temporarily and the ‘the intention is to restore it’ after considering the complaints and correcting where necessary.” That was in early August; it has not been restored. But what in it was false? It is worth revisiting.
Inside the World Express cafe, groups of men argue in Arabic. On side streets, men smoke shisha pipes and talk — again, in Arabic — on every corner. Women shop in veils and scarves, always accompanied by a male relative.
As a white European, I attract odd looks. When I take out my mobile phone for a photograph, a young man jumps in front of me, waving his index finger in my face, shouting: ‘La! La! La!’ (No! No! No!)
Yet this is not an exotic, far-flung destination. This is France. Moreover, this is Paris and only six miles from the Eiffel Tower.
The reason for all this activity — in an area which even the most optimistic estate agent would struggle to sell as ‘cosmopolitan and bohemian’ — is quite simple: immigration on a mammoth scale.
The area in question is called Saint-Denis in the north-east of the city, where the Basilica holds the resting places of many French kings and queens.
Recently, it was reported that this sprawling district now holds as many as 300,000 illegal immigrants, many of whom rely on crime or the ‘black economy’ to make money. The official legal population in Saint-Denis is estimated at 1.5 million.
Not only that, according to French parliamentarians in a new report that’s causing much anguish across the nation, as many as 420,000 legal residents here are living ‘below the official poverty line’.
The scale of the problem grows each day. An estimated 80 migrants arrive in Paris every 24 hours — 550 a week.
Many head for Saint-Denis because of its closeness to transport links, including the railway lines heading towards the North coast, and Britain.
Britain, these Muslim benefit-seekers believe, will provide them with even more than France does. Ideally, of course, they would most like to settle in Germany or Sweden, the most generous of welfare states. But for now, they will have to make do with Great Britain, if, that is, they can smuggle themselves in.
Migrant camps, set up in tents along the Seine in this area of Paris, were destroyed by the police in May, with the occupants who didn’t get away taken for processing in detention centers after a raid….
There are an estimated 135 different nationalities in Saint-Denis, most extremely poor, including an estimated 600,000 Muslims from North African or sub-Saharan African backgrounds….
Having spent several days in Saint-Denis, it’s clear to me that the area is already lost to France — to the rule of French law, equality, religious freedom, and even access to the streets by the police themselves.
Indeed, this is a parallel state — a state within a state, with its own rules and religious courts — where allegiance to Islam comes ahead of fealty to France.
Police have reportedly admitted the area is a ‘no-go’ zone, and will only drive through the areas armed and four to a vehicle….
Not French law, but Sharia courts, dispense their rough justice. The laws of France are flouted: women wear niqabs, though they are forbidden by law. Drugs are dealt openly. The police do not dare to enter Saint-Denis alone, for fear of being attacked, but when they do go in, as for a drugs bust, they go in groups of four.
And where, as I discovered, other faiths and religions are being driven from the area.
Mosques far outnumber the handful of churches now functioning in Saint-Denis. The French Christians are moving out — why would they want to remain in such a place? As for Jews, they are almost all gone, having fled Saint-Denis for the obvious reasons: being spit upon as they walk in the streets, or physically threatened or attacked. A handful hold on, including a remarkable rabbi, a brave man who refuses to leave, and whom Andrew Malone describes toward the end of his piece as the only person he met in Saint-Denis who would shake his hand.
When helicopters flew overhead in training for the Bastille Day celebrations earlier this month, one man pretended to shoot at them with a machine gun.
Another pushed him away and pretended to fire a shoulder-mounted missile, tracing the missile with his hand towards its targets and shouting: ‘Boom!’ Everyone laughed.
Yes, everyone had a good laugh at the amusing idea of shooting a French helicopter out of the sky. Muslim patriots. That’s Saint-Denis’s version of patriotism. Who says Muslims won’t integrate?
James Pierce says
It truly is remarkable how some people can still pretend that these no go zones don’t exist.
eduardo odraude says
But perfectly of a piece with the fact that people still believe that Islam is a religion like every other, not a violent expansionist totalitarian/authoritarian system.
Victoria says
It’s not only the price of oil that is driving the French citizens to riot.It is the illegal invasion of their country.It’s the constant pressure from watching their way of life, their religion, their safety disappear and their government refuses to stop it. Their taxes have already been raised to pay for this illegal invasion of their country and the resent having to work hard every day to pay for the life style of the invaders. Imagine having to watch a large part f your beautiful city become a gulag. No wonder the are frustrated, no wonder they are rioting.
John says
true liberalism destroys everything…. It also requires you commit yourself, family, and friends to suicide. It the USA, they are called democrats. They put muslims in charge to prove they are not racist…
patriotliz says
Democrats are traitors. Leftist dhimmis impose Sharia blasphemy laws on social media. By defending islam as a “minority” OPPRESSED group means that the dhimmis are immune from being labeled as racist, xenophobic or islamophobic which makes them morally “righteous” and SUPERIOR to all those Christian Nazi KKK white supremacists that antifa loves to hate. It’s suicide on the altar of “multiculturalism” or as Thomas Sowell would say “…you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and, you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_GYLxe3Vuk
mortimer says
A French woman journalist went into one of these Muslim coffee bars and was immediately accosted by an Arab man who asked, ‘Wouldn’t you feel more comfortable somewhere else?’
She responded, ‘France is MY country. I can go anywhere in France I choose because we are all EQUAL.’
Would that more French women did that. These supremacists would soon get the idea and their bullying would be stopped. But people let Muslims get away with these sorts of enclaves and EXCLUSION ZONES.
Mohammed migrated to Medina, colonized it, made deals with the local people, then within a few years, he had ERADICATED the local people and Medina was ruled and populated only by Muslims and their SLAVES.
Peaceful MIGRATION followed by conquest is NORMATIVE ISLAM, rather than an aberration … bait and switch.
James Pierce says
Even better, what if French MEN, if such a thing even exists anymore, reacted as this woman had. Maybe then these people, who seem to be getting more than a little too big for their britches, would be put back in their place.
gravenimage says
Yes, Mortimer–a *very* brave French woman!
Charles says
Graven Image, Yes, a brave woman (as my own Mum was during the Nazi occupation of our country) but French women blew it when they told Jesus, as it were, that he was interfering in their sex life . Therefore, massive immigration of invaders worse than the Nazis.
gravenimage says
Charles, French immigration policy is no set up by women who want to be raped by Muslims, if that is what you are implying.
Jel3j2@yahoo.com says
The ICCPR is the framework for migration. Read the whole ICCPR and see that exclusion zones are part of the ICCPR.
dannyboy9 says
The West has been deceived not only by Islam but experts on Islam that are not Muslim or Arab.
The most deadly notion those experts always include is “Not all Muslims are terrorist”
That is the deadly notion that opens the door for Islam.
james collins says
Brigitte Bardot had it right so many years ago when she tried to warn the French people about all the mosque she saw everywhere. They arrested her!!
james collins says
Brigitte Bardot har it right so many years ago when she tried to warn the French people of all the mosques she was seeing being built. They arrested her!!!
james collins says
Brigitte Bardot had it right so many years ago when she tried to warn the French people of all the mosques she was seeing being built. They arrested her!!!
gravenimage says
Yes–a courageous and beautiful Frenchwoman!
Indiana Tom says
Many head for Saint-Denis because of its closeness to transport links, including the railway lines heading towards the North coast, and Britain.
Strategic thinking.
Indiana Tom says
Here is the amazing part. I had a co-worker go to Paris last summer and stated there was no muzzie problem and it was all a product of Breitbart reporting. I asked him if he went to Saint Dennis. No, but he was at Montmartre. I told him, the muzzies are not necessarily at Montmartre and he needed to go to Saint Dennis if he is going to say the French do not have a muzzie problem. Of course he blew me off and said it was a right wing conspiracy reporting fable.
Jake says
The persons who establish French policy and opinion also live in places like Montmartre. They, increasingly like most of the Western “elite”, are utterly removed from the societies they govern. I’m am sure the residents of Montmartre do not understand why anyone is protesting the gas tax and living standards in France. They are living quite well – what is there to protest?
Charlie Dumaurier says
EXCUUUUSE ME!
Montmartre is full of transsexuals, prostitutes and gays. They are all French and supposedly Christian. Don’t talk about Montmartre unless you have been there and seen it or at least know something about it.
I was sexually attacked by a transsexual man in women’s clothes right on the street. I had to fight to get his hands off my private parts.
gravenimage says
I see that Charlie Dumaurier is, as usual, castigating the “filthy Infidels”.
The main thing that people complain about in Montmartre is that it is too touristy. But a district full of rapist terrorist Muslims? You won’t find the Islamophilic Charlie Dumaurier saying anything negative about *that*.
Diane says
I’ve noticed a similar attitude among Leftists. If something is happening outside of their view, then it’s just NOT HAPPENING, period. If CNN is not reporting on an issue, then the issue doesn’t exist (in the mind of the Leftist). I think of the Philosophy question, “If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?”. Unless a Leftist actually SEES or EXPERIENCES an issue, FOR THEMSELVES, it doesn’t exist in their mind, and anyone reporting on it, is just “making things up” or “fear-mongering”. Leftists won’t believe the issues are real, until they encroach upon their own doorstep.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is more denial.
NITZAKHON says
@Diane:
They’re “Teflon Intellects” – and, from personal experience, even when presented with reality they reject it.
http://redpilljew.blogspot.com/2018/05/teflon-intellects.html
For example, I was attempting to debate “climate change” with someone who, in reply, spouted the “97% of climate scientists…” thing. When I TOOK. THEM. APART. on it, and showed them actual graphs showing actual data fraud, they literally couldn’t take it.
eduardo odraude says
In a way, it wouldn’t be a problem if the Muslim population in France and the world were not growing significantly faster than the Muslim population. (Is there proof that is still the case? I mean evidence from serious demographic researchers) If it were just some French suburbs that were living according to an Islamic ethos, it wouldn’t matter that much to France. But the higher the Muslim population percentage rises, the more that will tend to corrode French intellectual and religious freedoms and civil and political rights. One of many reasons we can conclude that is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights” — set up as a rejection of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The Cairo Declaration’s points kill freedom of religion and freedom of speech and raise Islam above those rights.
eduardo odraude says
should say
“significantly faster than the non-Muslim population.”
Victoria says
Muslim birth rate five times that of the western population. As one Palestinian yelled at the Jews when the settled in Jerusalem, years ago after the Balfour act was enforced. WE WILL OUTBREED YOU ! In ten years more than half the schools in France will be taught in Arabic and there will be a Mosque on every block.There will be a huge battle between the European population and the Muslim invaders for the soul of Europe.
eduardo odraude says
In France, perhaps.
I have read that the Jews in Israel have a higher birthrate than the “Palestinians.”
I gather Iran, however, has one of the lowest birthrates in the world — Daniel Goldman wrote a few years ago that Iran may become especially dangerous because the leadership there knows that under their current birthrates their population will drop by almost half in each generation. Goldman also claims this is a pattern emerging around the world, except with religious people whose religions are adapted to modernity and individualism. That means Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists, insofar as they are religious, are reproducing at above replacement rates, while Muslims, atheists, and agnostics are not reproducing at replacement rates.
But I don’t know if Goldman’s claims only hold good in a minority of Muslim states. Perhaps globally, Muslims on average are still reproducing much faster than others.
NITZAKHON says
I asked a Swedish immigrant to the US who I know – work-wise – about the situation in Sweden.
“All is fine, there’s nothing wrong”.
When I asked – circuitously – about the rapes, Malmo, etc., you could see the setting of the jaw, the lines around the eyes, as they became desperate to hold on to the façade. After a few minutes, the desperation to cling to a vision became evident: “That’s not true, none of it is true, everything is absolutely fine!”
But the body language said differently.
Benedict says
Seine Saint-Denis is not only a fifth column and a Trojan Horse, it is a social gangrene or gang green, if you like.
P. Douglas says
It would seem that now, the only way to restore peace and security for the actual REAL Europeans is to take massive Military action.
Round up every Satan worshipper you can find and Deport every last one.
Serious diseases require drastic but decisive ACTION!
Savvy Kafir says
I agree. If fast-breeding Muslim colonizers are allowed to remain in Europe (or America, Canada, or Australia), they will eventually Islamize the West. That cannot be allowed to happen — no matter what it takes to prevent it.
This is war by immigration, which Muslims have waged since the time of their prophet. It’s a war we have got to win.
NITZAKHON says
Definitely, time for the SPANISH SOLUTION. I wish it were otherwise.
http://redpilljew.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-islamic-invasion-and-spanish.html
Those who deny the invasion are like Kevin Bacon’s character in “Animal House”…
Savvy Kafir says
Thanks for the link to that excellent blog post! Lots of great info (and sentiment) there. Everyone should check it out, and save it for future reference.
nicu says
gang green is good 🙂
I live in a small town in Germany and it’s the same like in Paris –and other places in the West Muslim have taken over 🙁
allahscum says
A long time ago Europe made a deal with the devil, the Middle East for oil that included muslim migration. History has always shown that these people don’t assimilate, nor are they allowed to. The only way to get rid of this problem is to deport them. Stupid Canada has enough oil yet they’ve decided to buy oil from the Saudis and sell their own. How does that even make any sense. There is no other people that believes they are above the law, doesn’t fit in with the locals and sponges off of others. I can hardly bare it anymore seeing what is happening to Christian and Judea countries. These elites should be hung for treason.
Rolf Wittwer says
…and it will worsen much more.
Don’t forget of what will happen on 10/11th of December 2018 in Marrakech, Maroc!!!!!
Europeans have to wake up now!
Otherwise, extremly unpleasant months and years awaiting around the corner.
There shouldn’t be anymore time to say “sorry, excuse me or pardon me”!
Hopefully – the yellow jackets will (due to this unbelievable 2 UN-Pacts) fast spreading whole over Europe; the devilish and mendacious “political correctness” will finally end.
However and unfortunately, most EU-governments are “acting in a Quisling-Way” to bring down our continent to its knees, so that Islam can earn the fallen fruits.
BEWARE OF THE ISLAMIC UNDERMINDED “UNO” !!!!!
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, the “Yellow Jackets” seem to be protesting over fuel taxes, not the Muslim invasion.
gravenimage says
A Report From Hell: Seine Saint-Denis (Part One)
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Terrifying–this confirms everything I have heard.
Note the this neighborhood is name for the patron saint of France–a place where most Christians have been driven out.
loki says
The ethnic french will shortly comprise a ‘state within a state’.
David Jackson says
There has to come a point – very very soon- when the idiocy of lib left internationalists have to be swept aside and islam is confronted with force. We have a right to preserve our culture (as the US Presidential Oath says) against all enemies foreign and domestic.
MTMLA says
I was in Paris studying French in 89 & 90 and St. Dennis already had a bad reputation of crime and violence. My teacher told us to avoid the place. One day we had to change trains at the SD metro station and one of the students in my group had a big movie camera and was filming in the subway. Suddenly he was surrounded by 3 very tall African men who spoke an odd French.. and they were going to steal his movie camera. Then my French teacher, who is French, got up to talk to them, and one creep tried to hit him. Then we all got up with our backpacks and started screaming at the 3 creeps ready to hit them with our backpacks. Then the burglars walked away. Luckily they didn’t have a knife.That’s St. Dennis, all right.
gravenimage says
Very disturbing–I have heard similar ugly stories.
infidel says
It is time to get the French army with their machine guns and rocket launchers and finish off these evil creatures esp those that play acted the shooting down of the French fighters during their national day.. It is high and nel to seize these vile creatures with the scruff of their necks and evict them back into their desert rat hole.
LadyDi says
St. Denis is but one part of Paris that is being overrun. The 10th arrondissement (seen in this video with tents pitched next to the Canal St Martin) and Porte de La Chapelle (which you drive through coming from CDG airport) are also overrun with tents and thousands of Muslims. I’m American but have a tiny apartment in old, non-touristy Montmartre and people are selling their homes like crazy. This is a defining time for France and Western Europe, but sadly this generation is weak, wants government handouts and passively waits for “someone else” to address the problem. They fiddle around while Rome burns!
https://gloria.tv/video/UHpC4uFnMq3D2hieH6xocF43D
gravenimage says
True–it is not just Saint Denis.
Garfield says
Godless nihilistic liberals, commies, subversive hate filled anti-intellectuals, and passive cowards….this is your fault.