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| Does Europe Have No-go Zones? No! It Has Semi-autonomous Sectors! |
| 2015-01-22 |
| by Daniel Pipes So, what are these places? A unique and as-yet un-named mix. On the one hand, West European states can intervene anywhere and at any time in their sovereign territory. As the shoot-out in Verviers and the subsequent raids in Belgium suggest, their overwhelming advantage in force – including military, intelligence, and police – means they have not ceded control. On the other hand, governments often choose not to impose their will on Muslim-majority areas, allowing them considerable autonomy, including in some cases the Shariah courts that Emerson mentioned. Alcohol and pork are effectively banned in these districts, polygamy and burqas commonplace, police enter only warily and in force, and Muslims get away with offences illegal for the rest of population. The Rotherham, England, child sex scandal offers a powerful example. An official inquiry found that for sixteen years, 1997-2013, a ring of Muslim men sexually exploited – through abduction, rape, gang rape, trafficking, prostitution, torture – at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls as young as 11. The police received voluminous complaints from the girls' parents but did nothing; they could have acted, but chose not to. I.e. the police voluntarily respected the boundaries of a virtual legal no-go zone, withdrawing the protection of the legal system from the abused non-Muslim girls. What does one call Rotherham and Birmingham? They are not no-go zones, neither in terms of geography or sovereignty. This is where we – Emerson, others (such as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal), and I stumbled. The English language lacks a readily-available term for this. And for good reason: I know of no historical parallel, in which a majority population accepts the customs and even the criminality of a poorer and weaker immigrant community. The world has never seen anything comparable to the contemporary West's blend of achievement, timidity, and guilt, of hugely superior power matched by a deep reluctance to use it. This is an apt observation also in light of NATO and US policy post 9/11. Instead of no-go zones, I propose semi-autonomous sectors, a term that emphasizes their indistinct and non-geographic nature – thus permitting a more accurate discussion of what is, arguably, West Europe's most acute problem. Whatever the name, people who are entitled to the protection of the Western legal system aka the Queen's Peace are left to the tender mercies of Sharia and Dhimmitude. |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #3 ..let's just call them Sharptonvilles? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-22 10:05 |
| #2 Actually, the correct term for these areas is colonies. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-01-22 07:25 |
| #1 European mentality certainly does. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-22 04:58 |