The
Danger of Partial No-go Zones to Europe
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[N.B.: WT title: "The danger
of partial no-go zones: Allowing areas where Muslims exclude non-Muslims
signals Western weakness"]
Partial no-go zones in majority-Muslim areas are a part of the urban
landscape from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, with the French government
alone counting 751
of them. This shirking of responsibility foreshadows catastrophe and calls
for immediate reversal.
I call the bad parts of Europe's cities partial no-go zones
because ordinary people in ordinary clothing at ordinary times can enter
and leave them without trouble. But they are no-go zones in the sense that
representatives of the state – police especially but also firefighters,
meter-readers, ambulance attendants, and social workers – can only enter
with massed power for temporary periods of time. If they disobey this basic
rule (as I learned first-hand
in Marseille), they are likely to be swarmed, insulted, threatened, and
even attacked.
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Illustration on
European "no-go" Muslim-dominated zones by Linas Garsys/The
Washington Times.
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This situation needs not exist. Host societies can say no to the poor,
crime-ridden, violent, and rebellious areas emerging in their midst. But,
if governments need not abdicate control, why do they do so? Because of a
fervent, slightly desperate hope to avoid confrontation. Multicultural
policies offer the illusion of sidestepping anything that might be
construed as "racist" or "Islamophobic."
This abandonment is no minor aberration but a decision with grave
consequences – consequences far deeper than, say, not controlling a
crime-ridden American city like East
St. Louis. That's because Muslim quasi-no-go zones fit into a far
larger political context, with dual Western and Islamic dimensions.
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Cover of Pascal
Bruckner's French cover of "The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on
Western Masochism."
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Western: Avoiding confrontation reflects a deep-seated
ambivalence about the value of one's own civilization and even self-hatred
of the white race. The French intellectual Pascal
Bruckner noted in his 2006 book La
tyrannie de la pénitence (English: The Tyranny of Guilt: An
Essay on Western Masochism) that leftist thinking "can be reduced
to mechanical denunciations of the West, emphasizing the latter's
hypocrisy, violence, and abomination." Europeans preen as "the
sick man of the planet" whose greed and false notions of superiority
causes every problem in the non-Western world: "The white man has sown
grief and ruin wherever he has gone."
If the deadly triad of imperialism, fascism, and racism represent all
that the West has to offer, no wonder immigrants to Europe, including
Islamists, are treated as superior beings due supine deference. They
exploit this by acting badly – drug
dealers ruling the roost, a gang
raping 1,400 children over a period of 16 years, and promoting violent
ideologies – with near-impunity because, after all, the Europeans have
only themselves to blame.
Muslim: Partial no-go zones also result from an Islamic drive for
exclusion and domination. Mecca and Medina constitute the official,
sovereign, and eternal Muslim-only zones. For nearly fourteen centuries,
these two Arabian cities have been formally off-limits to kafirs,
who trespass at their peril; a lively literature of non-Muslims who
penetrated their holy precincts and lived to tell the tale goes back centuries
and continues
still today.
Other Islamic no-go zones also exist. Before losing power in 1887, the
Muslim rulers of Harar, Somalia, for centuries insisted (in the words of a British
officer) on the "the exclusion of all travellers not of the Moslem
faith." In like spirit, women
in hijabs scream at non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem to make them feel unwelcome and so stay away. In the West, lawful
Muslim-only
enclaves represent one drive for Muslim autonomy and sovereignty; the Muslims
of America organization, with its 15 or so no-go compounds bristling
with arms and hostility on private property dotted around the United
States, represents another.
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A sign prohibiting
non-Muslims from entering Mecca.
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Unlike places like East St. Louis, Muslim-majority partial no-go zones
have a deeply political and highly ambitious quality to them. Indeed, it is
not far-fetched to foresee them turning into Muslim
autonomous zones applying Islamic law and challenging the authorities.
The mix of feeble European governments and a strong Islamic drive for power
points to future unrest, crises, breakdown, and even civil war.
Some
believe it is already too late to avoid this fate. I disagree, but if
catastrophe is to be avoided, the job to dismantle all partial no-go zones
must be started soon and executed with a swift determination based on a
renewed sense of self-worth. Two universal principles should guide European
governments: attaining a monopoly of force and applying the same code of
law to all citizens.
Domestic peace in Europe and perhaps other regions, including Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, demands nothing less.
Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle
East Forum. © 2015 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.
Dec. 29, 2015 addendum: This analysis builds on my first-hand
reporting published as "Muslim
'No-go Zones' in Europe?" in the Daily Caller on Dec. 2,
2015.
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