'NO-GO ZONES' BREWING IN
U.S., AUTHOR WARNS, Outsiders greeted with cold stares
as mosques preach hatred of West, by Leo Hohmann, 8/28/17, WND
Driving into parts of inner-city
Detroit, Chicago or Miami at certain times of day can be pretty scary, but when
the drug culture meets Shariah law it becomes a whole new level of frightening
Yet, that’s what some U.S.
neighborhoods have to look forward to if things don’t change in Washington,
says the author of a new book on Europe’s “no-go zones.” In fact, the early
warning signs are already becoming visible in some U.S. communities, says
Raheem Kassam, who visited more than a dozen Muslim-dominated enclaves on the
continent.
The jolting message contained in “No
Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You,” is one of warning for America, which is in the process of
building up its own no-go zones by making the same immigration mistakes now on
full display in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United
Kingdom. Almost daily reports of attacks, often with knives or vehicles, have
been reported in these countries, while these type attacks are almost never
seen in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, countries that have barred
their doors to Muslim migration.
But Kassam is worried about the
United States.
Places like the Cedar Riverside area
of Minneapolis, where Shariah cops
make house checks to make sure Somali refugees are not becoming
too Westernized, and Hamtramck, Michigan, where the call to prayer is blasted
over loudspeakers in Arabic and storefronts that once peddled Polish sausage
are now brimming with halal meats.
These can be the early warning signs
of a budding no-go zone, says Kassam. But even more crucial, he says, is the
level of assimilation by second and third generation Muslim Americans. If the
experience of Europe is any indication, trouble is on the horizon for U.S.
cities.
Kassam was born in West London to
parents of Tanzanian descent and has an ethnic Indian background. His family
practiced Ismaili, a sect of Shia Islam that is considered heretical and
targeted for persecution in most Sunni-dominated countries. “So I was a
practicing Muslim until about the age of 20 but I guess I was lucky to be
raised in this kind of liberal Muslim family,” Kassam told WND.
Shariah-compliant Somalis make
life-changing impression
His good fortune ran out when he
went off to the University of Westminster and realized that the greater slice
of Islam did not share his family’s liberal, pro-Western mindset. He met many
Sunnis from Somalia and other countries and came face to face with the dark
secret of Islam often hidden from Westerners by the mass media – Shariah.
“I saw things going terribly wrong
at my university with the Somalis, they were terribly strict [in following
Shariah],” he said. “The University of Westminster is the same college Jihadi
John attended, and I didn’t want to get into what these guys were about. So I
left Islam about 10 years ago.”
Jihadi John was the British-born son
of Arab migrants who beheaded American journalist James Foley, a beheading that
was parlayed by ISIS into a propaganda video.
After watching CNN and “the Anderson
Coopers of the world” present what he believes is a distorted view of Islam,
Kassam went to work for the U.K. Independence Party headed by Nigel Farage.
Farage would later write the foreword
to his book.
He later became editor in chief of
Breitbart London and now splits his time between London, New York and
Washington, D.C.
14 cities reaping fruits of
multicultural nightmare
The book is based on his travels to
14 cities with notorious no-go zones. Places like the Molenbeek area of
Brussels and the Rosengard section in Malmo, Sweden, where outsiders, including
police, dare not tread. “I could not
pick and choose when I wanted to be there, it was just whenever I could arrive,
it was the middle of the night in many cases, it was whenever the train or the
plane arrived,” he says. In the Alum Rock neighborhood of Birmingham, England,
graffiti on the side of a building read “No
whites allowed after 8 p.m.”
What Kassam found in every one of
his destinations was poverty, crime and extreme ghettoization, often not far
from a posh area of the city. His book is not the first journalistic
investigation of no-go zones, but it may be the most thorough.
Steven Emerson, another journalist,
has reported extensively on Muslim enclaves in the West but he ran into trouble
more than two years ago when he referred to “no-go zones” during a television
interview on Fox News. “Steve’s major problem was that he called the entire
city of Birmingham a no-go zone. If he had said ‘areas of Birmingham’ he would
have been all right,” Kassam noted. “It was just an innocent slip of the tongue
that anyone could have made but they seized upon it to destroy our entire
narrative.”
Fox apologized for the report and
British Prime Minister David Cameron piled on, calling Emerson “undignified”
among other, worse names.
“When you have the British prime
minister intervene and go out of his way to call out Mr. Emerson you know he
was looking for that opportunity. One slip up and we lose the whole narrative.
They forced us into a defensive position with their bullying.” Even some
conservatives, such as Mideast scholar Daniel Pipes, pushed back. Pipes said he
could go into Birmingham’s no-go zones and order local food without any
problem.
“I told him, Daniel, you’re
six-feet-seven and you look like an Algerian so nobody is going to bother you,
but try being a young French girl walking into that café and watch how you’re
treated. I’ve done that, and watched how the girl is treated,” Kassam said.
“Trust me, Daniel Pipes is not going to get the same treatment.”
An underground economy
Kassam visited the Herregarden
housing complex located in Malmo, Sweden’s Rosengard ghetto. The residential
makeup of the apartment complex is approximately 96 percent foreign born, with
migrants drawn to Sweden’s generous welfare system. “As we drove around the
housing estates at night, it became clear the problems in these areas: drugs,
rape, police assaults and more, were created in large part by state-sponsored
‘multiculturalism,'” he reported.
“Rosengard felt like a wasteland,
like an apocalyptic movie setting,” Kassam told WND. “I went in the middle of
winter and it was dark, very poorly lit, a couple of men shuffled out into the
street, women in hijabs. Walking through the middle of Herregarden complex, you
hear Arab music blasting out of the apartments, you could go into the shops and
they weren’t selling food as we know it, or as Swedes know it, they were
selling their own food, at ridiculously low prices. They obviously weren’t
paying taxes.”
Kassam said he heard the same story
in almost every other no-go zone throughout Europe: Food and clothing, the
basics of life, sold for pennies on the dollar. A Muslim woman can find a long
dress in Molenbeek, Brussels, for 2.5 euros. “You can’t make a living on that
unless you are not paying taxes,” he said. But more than the underground
economy and the unwelcome attitude toward outsiders was the ever-present
feeling of a subculture that demanded submission, that not only discouraged
mixing with the host country’s culture but forbade it.
“No-go zones are areas where police
don’t want to police. And I can see why,” Kassam said. “They don’t feel like
they’re part of your country, they feel like they’re closed off. The men want
to bore holes in your side with their eyes, and the women, they’re so on edge,
they’re so nervous. I tried to talk to people and nobody would even look in my
direction.” “And I’m not white. I’m brown,” he
adds. “Some say I look Turkish, some say I look Iranian, so I don’t look like
I’m an undercover police officer, yet I was still treated as an outsider.
That’s the level of disconnect they have with society, they don’t want to talk
to outsiders.” In short, there is an undercurrent of fear that is palpable for
any outsider entering a no-go zone. Kassam said some of the signs of burgeoning
no-go zones have been present in parts of major American cities for years. “This
echoes in many ways the problems of Chicago and Detroit and Watts,” he said.
Thanks to the United Nations-U.S.
State Department refugee resettlement program, even not-so major cities like
Fargo, North Dakota, and Willmar, Minnesota, are quickly raising up parallel
societies insulated from the host community.
In the WND book “Stealth
Invasion,” these nations within a nation are
called “seedlings” by Barack Obama adviser David Lubell, the founder of
Welcoming America. Lubell and others talk about watering the “soil” of the host
community until the seedlings can sprout and mature, eventually taking over
their host community.
Once a seedling community reaches
that full bloom, it’s too late for police to rein it in. “The difference is
there is an underlying cultural supremacy preached to these people [in the
mosques], and that’s why it’s a more dangerous situation,” Kassam said.
Different from ‘Little Italy’
There has always been “Little Italy”
neighborhoods in Chicago and Detroit, the Irish quarter in Boston, Poletown in
Hamtramck or Greektown in Detroit. San Fransisco has its Chinatown, as does
Washington, D.C. But it’s not the same as a Muslim no-go zone.
“Look at the evidence as to how the
next generation of the Muslims think,” Kassam said. “In Hamtramck, Polish
people enjoyed their enclave, they took pride in it, but their children grew up
and integrated, assimilated, they moved out to the suburbs and many no longer
spoke Polish. “But you look at the Muslim immigrants and they’re not doing
that, they’re actually further ghettoizing, they’re moving inward, not
outward.”
Polls by Pew Research show a higher
proportion of young Muslims backing terrorism, supporting death for apostasy
[leaving Islam], death for homosexuals, and the idea that the woman must cover
herself with the hijab or the burqa.
So it’s the opposite trend of Little
Italy becoming less like Italy and more like America. “You see a higher
disposition than their parents who believe these things,” Kassam said. “They’re
holding onto this Muslim-American sort of thing, and they’re being supported by
the political left.”
Kassam includes a whole chapter on
Hamtramck, which in 2015 became the first U.S. city to elect a majority-Muslim
city council. Several years before that, in 2011, the city approved the Muslim
call to prayer over loudspeakers, effectively chasing away many of the last
Polish holdouts.
“Look at what Teddy Roosevelt said.
He said to the immigrant wave of his day, look, there is no room for you to be
American and something else,” Kassam said. “And we must demand for you to
assimilate.”
In some of the areas Kassam visited,
the majority of signage was in a foreign language. “The one that springs to
mind is Tower Hamlets in East London, the signs were in Bengali. You can find
the same in parts of Dearborn, and along the Hamtramck border is one of the
only places in America you can get a ballot in Bengali. And you see that in
Tower Hamlets as well.”
St. Mary’s Park in East London was
named after a 14th century church, but in 1978 a Bengali immigrant was murdered
there and in 1998 they changed the name to that of the migrant, Altab Ali Park,
“and to date all the hard-left, Antifa-types hold their rallies there,” Kassam
said.
“There is anti- Western stuff all
over in the Tower Hamlets area. A lot of anti-Western, anti-government
sentiments are expressed,” he noted. “And it’s just a stone’s throw away from
the big skyscrapers and banks of London, a 10-minute walk. The distinction
between the two areas is stark, right on the periphery of one of the most
wealthy areas of the world. They live with jealously and envy every day, with
rich things and pretty things within their view every day and they’re living in
squalor.” This breeds hatred and envy and anger.
“And the fundamentalists, the Muslim
hate preachers, they come along and they use that to stoke the resentment,” he
said.
Kassam said he has not converted to
any other faith after leaving Islam. “I converted to alcoholism I’m afraid,” he
joked. “I did not join any other faith. Organized religion, for me, it just
feels scary.”
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