Further down the street, there was a flurry of activity. A woman was surrounded as she opened a huge bag full of phones, shoes, sunglasses and handbags — clearly stolen from tourists or Parisians. The goods were quickly sold and the crowd melted away.
Unemployed or underemployed Muslim migrants (and there are many) who are legal can count on a cornucopia of benefits provided by the French state, including free or subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and unemployment benefits. Even illegal ones manage to receive some of these benefits, such as free medical care through Aide médicale d’État.
Police have reportedly admitted the area is a ‘no-go’ zone, and will only drive through the areas armed and four to a vehicle….
The appalling attacks in November 2015 by home-grown Islamic State killers shone a pitiless spotlight on the problems that can grow out of immigrant ghettos.
These are not ”immigrant ghettos,” but “Muslim ghettos” (which include Muslims born in France).
The carnage started close to the Stade de France, the national sports stadium, which is in Saint-Denis, where some of the killers sought refuge after the attacks.
One hundred and thirty people died in a single night of violence involving suicide bombings and Kalashnikov fire around bars, cafés and venues, including the Bataclan concert hall.
Five days after the attacks, the suspected mastermind was run to ground in an apartment by hundreds of security officers….
‘The terrorists had rented rooms with no questions asked, and were left to get on with their crimes.’…
There are around 350 known jihadists living in Saint-Denis, while 1,700 are believed to have returned to France after fighting for IS in Syria, with 15,000 terrorism suspects in France.
In Saint-Denis itself, there is a record number of mosques — 160 official ones, and many more unofficial — compared with 117 Catholic churches and 60 Protestant. Yet it is the unauthorised mosques — set up in basements and garages — that the authorities fear the most.
The radicalisers use these hidden places of worship to influence the young and impressionable,’ said a veteran police officer who has worked in Saint-Denis for more than two decades.
He added: ‘Salafists (followers of an extreme form of Islam) impose the rule of religion, so we can have very little influence. These radicalisers are the ones who motivate the young towards terrorism.’
Much of the money-raising activity comes from drug-dealing by gangs, many of them Muslim. At one high-rise block of flats not far from where I was staying, the scale of the operation was evident.
Like a department store, different drugs are sold on different floors. Moroccans and North Africans sell hashish for ten euros a bag on the third floor….
At this point, I told one of the men I was a journalist and asked whether we could have a chat.
A chunky character in a red Ellesse sports shirt, he was relaxed, smiled at me and said politely to me in English: ‘No — go.’ I went.
Most blocks seemed to have the same operation, with youths guarding the front doors, ‘spotters’ on the streets opposite for signs of police or other gangs, and the drugs held and sold inside.
Rabbi Yisroel Belinow, 50, is either a fool or very brave. As I walked near a mosque, I saw him looking out of his window. His home was firebombed in 2009, and a kosher restaurant next door burned down….
‘The problem is people coming to France and wanting to change it. And it’s worse because they want to force people to change. I know I look different. The hatred is obvious — people spit when you walk past….
‘It wasn’t always like this. In the beginning, [French people] wanted to help. The charity these people [recent migrants] were shown was tremendous. But you wake up and realise pretty soon that this works one way only. Many people have left.’…
Women suffer the most. Not far from the drug dealers outside the station, I visited a women’s refuge set up by Ghada Hatem, a senior gynecologist, who says almost one in five of her patients have been victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) — the barbaric ritual of cutting the sexual organs of young women….
Sarah Oussekine, who has an Algerian background and who runs a group called the Voix d’Elles Rebelles (Voice of the Female Rebels) in Saint-Denis, says: ‘When you ask girls why they are starting to wear the headscarf — and many more are — they tell you it is an act of faith, but actually when you dig deeper, they have to wear it to stay safe.’…
These Muslims, legal and illegal, are battening on whatever benefits the suicidally generous French state gives them, to which they add the considerable sums they make by crime, including dealing in drugs of every type (from marijuana to heroin), and stolen goods, like those of that woman who “opened a huge bag full of phones, shoes, sunglasses and handbags — clearly stolen from tourists or Parisians.” In Andrew Malone’s account, Saint-Denis is one vast thieves’ den. It has also harbored terrorists, who fled there after the attacks on the Bataclan nightclub.
Battle says
Way to go Hugh.
Elisha says
Yeah, way to go Hugh, the secular humanist, whose ideology based upon the philosophical delusion of Darwinism, has opened the door to this ungodly mess. Seriously. The West’s rejection of God’s truth and His sacrifice on the cross at Calvary is plain to see in the punishment it now receives from Him, just as the rebellious Israelites, over and over and over again:
“I will make justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies
And the waters will overflow the secret place.
Your covenant with death will be canceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its trampling place.
As often as it passes through, it will seize you;
For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.” – Isaiah 28:17-19
“You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” – Amos 3:2
Are we learning yet?
b.a. freeman says
Elisha, are U serious? now is not the time to pick a fight with a non-christian and threaten him with hell-fire; now is the time to reach out a hand of brotherhood to a fellow future victim. as a born-again christian, i try to always remember that Jesus hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors. and BTW, tax collectors were no joke in roman client states; the romans would put out an RFQ to anybody who was willing to collect taxes, and whoever made the highest bid got the job. they were expected to collect what they bid, and charge even more to earn their own keep. needless to say, the local patriots *never* bid, so it was almost always the local criminals who bid – and won – the tax contracts. besides an enormous morally-illicit income, the crooks could call on the power of the roman state to handle anybody who made a stink about paying. arguing that the taxes were unfair was not a valid argument to the romans, and they were merciless in enforcing tax collection.
and Jesus actually hung out with these monsters. think about NYC or philly, controlled by a foreign power, and having taxes collected by the mafia. lovable folks, right? *THAT* is why tax collectors were hated, in every roman client state, not just in israel. Jesus *loved* those monsters, because they, too, were His children, and were in dire need of His salvation. He did not point the finger at them and say, “this is all *YOUR* fault!” instead, He told them that He loved them. in the same way, there are many non-christians in our nation – more of them than there are christian brothers – so in the same way that Jesus didn’t point the finger at tax collectors, we should not point the finger at those whose beliefs may have caused the issue. all arguing will do is divide potential allies, who *need* to work together against the islamic mind disease. we will not attract people to defend civilization by attacking them and saying that this mess is their fault. once the danger is past, we can reach out in love to unbelievers (as opposed to attacking them, the go-to pious muslim solution) and make sure that they know that He loves them.
carpediadem says
It is Christians who opened to the door to the Muslims from their positions in the EU decades ago.
gravenimage says
It was a lot of foolish Westerners, not all of them Christian.
Lawrence says
How do you explain Pope Francis then? Are you going to tell me he is actually a Marxist? Sure he has Marxist tendencies, but he’s Catholic. And the liberal Protestant Churches and their love affair with Islam? Are they all Marxists and Darwinian fundamentalists too?
patriotliz says
Marxists have “hijacked” Christianity to “guilt” Christians into self-destruction of Judeo-Christian Western Civilization. This Pope…”knows not what he does” because he thinks he’s supposed to be a martyr along w/ all other Christians to prove that they are not “racists, xenophobes or islamophobes” …or so goes the Marxist propaganda. Commies “cherry pick” from religious scripture to advance their Globalist Communist agenda.That’s why Pelosi can get away w/ saying that building a wall is “immoral” (but oddly enough aborting babies in utero isn’t immoral).
Here’s a classic example from 2016 of Catholicism perverting scripture with obvious political bias—taking an example of individualized “personal” charity to the “stranger” and perverting it into wholesale demolition of national sovereignty (exclusively in the West):
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/its-about-welcoming-stranger
Stewart Davies says
These are truths that the spiritually blind cannot understand, and thus they deceive themselves in their presumption that their ignorance is wisdom.
Frederick King says
This is a big part of the Yellow Vest Protests. People are sick of it. This is what open borders and globalism bring. The new communist system.
dan christensen says
If the current French demonstrators continue their struggle, they may cause the social benefit system of Paris to collapse or close down. If this happens, it may cause a muslim rebellion and initiate islamic plundering raids all over the city of Paris.
The French government could end up with a combination of social and racial/religious civil war, which easily may spread to Germany.
simpleton1 says
j cause the social benefit system of Paris to collapse or close down.
No worry, a socialist government or any government knows its priorities and will just borrow more.
They are well trained now to recognize the needs of refugees, ;migrants, and muslims.
Governments will not see it as other peoples money, just righteous taxes and so a good cause of re distribution.
The muslims may seem to rebel, but it is just their way of keeping up the pressure.(some risk of over playing their hand)
Rebellion will only occur if the frog that has enjoyed the warm water, (the privileges like early retirement, low hours of work), in the pot gets out, stops the taxes, before it has become too weakened and flaccid.
Then it will have the fight of its life, to stay out of that simmering pot, not only against muslims, but also against the state of France, and against the forces of the EU.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
There is no “solution.” Islam will not change. Just as there is no”solution” to the Muslim Arab war on Israel except deterrence, which worked to prevent major conflict between America and Russia during the Cold War.There are ways to ameliorate the situation Ending Mus;im migration, stripping of citizenship, and then deporting to their countries of origin those who are found to support Islamic terrorism, steadily decreasing the rich cornucopia of benefits now lavished on Muslim migrants, ending foreign funding of mosques, which should now be supported by Muslims in France, closing down any mosque where hatred against Infidels is preached, and deporting the imams doing the preaching,, instituting a work requirement for all those receiving state aid, cutting off any additional aid for families having more than two children, heavily taxing halal food, banning the hijab from government offices and schools, vetting the history curriculum and textbooks of high schools and colleges to ensure that a sanitized version of Islam is not being taught, while making surethat the 1,400 year history of Jihad is taught in schools, however much Muslims may complain, and much, much more. ,
simpleton1 says
Thanks Hugh for all the information, knowledge that you share with us here.
The “UN global migration pact” is seeking to preempt those actions.
Looking to entrench the “human rights” that morph into the Declaration of Cairo Human Rights.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Hugh.
Ahv bin Cotsteelin says
I used to sympathize with the French for their impending third-world status, but after studying their relentlessly pro-socialism voting history, I’ve come to the conclusion that I want France to perish. By perish, I mean its inevitable breakup into multiple countries and a total erasure of its cultural accomplishments. Even the “right-wing” politicians in France (e.g. the Le Pens) essentially embrace most aspects of socialism and diversity. Maybe if enough of their cell phones get stolen en masse they will wake up in time to watch L’Arc de Triomphe get turned into a mosque, an event which they will attend and shower with polite applause. Champagne, and all other alcohol, will be banned nationwide by that time, of course, so the celebration will be a bit muted, but anyone who doesn’t clap will be entered into a govt. database.
gravenimage says
So you want to see all of France’s great contributions in art and letters and law wiped out by invading Muslim thugs?
Older Canadian says
Error made. Host countries should expect and demand from the start to all who want to come to live in their country that they will respect and obey their sovereign rule of law, otherwise they will be ordered to leave.
I can appreciate how difficult it must be for some to come to a foreign country and integrate into their social mores and laws, but these values should be made known before entry so there is no misunderstanding, no excuses. The good people of the host countries, give with heart, and offer a helping hand have human rights also.
b.a. freeman says
well put, Older!
+1
Terry Gain says
First and foremost, we need to bar entry to Muslims. Islam is an ideology of conquest.
gravenimage says
A Report From Hell: Seine Saint-Denis (Part Two)
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Yes–this is now a base from which Muslims wage violent Jihad–theft, rape, and murder–against the native French.
It is also where they impose de facto Shari’ah law–mutilating children and beating women.
God, I hate Islam.
That the French–or anyone in the West–is allowing these “No Go Zones” is suicidal madness.
Stewart Davies says
I expect that, in the unassailable wisdom of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, all of this is a necessary and desirable stage in the development of peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims.
s says
and we go forward implementing Sharia Law in a backhanded manner… there is NO real reason for lawsuits to be awarded to CAIR.. there is NO reason for footbaths to be installed on the public dime… there is No reason that ISLAM is taught in schools to be the ONLY RELIGION… and having all students recite the Shahada …. and Visiting Mosques.. NOT CHURCHES nor Synagogues….