Friday, November 24, 2006

No-Go Zones In France

From Daniel Pipes:


They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are convienently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations and map delineations.

What are they? Those places in France that the French state does not control. They range from two zones in the medieval town of Carcassone to twelve in the heavily Muslim town of Marseilles, with hardly a town in France lacking in its ZUS. The ZUS came into existence in late 1996 and according to a 2004 estimate, nearly 5 million people live in them.

Comment: A more precise name for these zones would be Dar al-Islam, the place where Muslims rule.

3 comments:

von Schlichtningen said...

Very interesting, Pastorius!

All news coming out of france er increasingly worse.

I wonder when the civil war begins. Before or after sharia law is implemented in the Muslim zones.

Always On Watch said...

The civil war will begin after shari'a law becomes the system of jurisprudence in those zones. At least, such is my prediction.

Pastorius said...

Civil war would mean that there would have to be someone willing to fight, in France, for France.

Thus far, the French police are willing to fight. But, they will simply be overrun if the fight from the Muslims expands.

What will cause the French people to get angry enough to demand the military step in, or to begin fighting themselves?

AOW says it would take implementation of Sharia in three zones. I have a feeling it will take some egregious act of violence.