Paris Attacks Raise Fears No-Go Zones Are Breeding Grounds for Terrorists
Neighborhoods throughout France that the government has ceded to Muslim control are feared to be breeding grounds for terrorists like those who struck the satirical newsweekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, killing 12 people.
"These 'no-go' zones are essentially breeding grounds for radicalism, and it’s a very big problem," Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, told
FoxNews.com. "These are areas where essentially the French government has lost control."
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So here’s the point; Fox News had a contributor on air who stated that France has what are called ‘No Go Zones” where non-muslims are unwelcome and the police do not want to go. The Fox News Haters picked this up for several reasons.
1. They think they have caught Fox News in a Lie they convince themselves Fox News exists to tell. (Keep in mind how I started this post.)
2. France has No Officially Sanctioned ‘No Go Zones’. (True. Nor does any other country to my knowledge. But that’s not what was said.)
3. Fox News folks went as far as pointing on maps where these supposed ‘No Go Zones’ are in France. (They were wrong for the most part.)
The interwebs liberal faction turned this into “Fox said there are No Go Zones where no non-muslims live and the police ‘will NOT go’.”
Now the Gotcha Crowd smells blood and has demanded,
and received, apologies from Fox News regarding the ‘misrepresentations’.
But hold on a second! Here’s the part which should be interesting to watch.
‘No Go Zones’ in fact do exist in France. (They also exist in other countries…)
The French call them ZUS or “Sensitive Urban Zones” (
Zones Urbaines Sensible) They were established in 1996. And this concern over areas throughout Europe which have reduced police presence and ‘alternative’ law has been a discussion for at least that long.
These are areas that have a high percentage of individuals with values that are ‘slightly different’ from the general population of France.
And they’re Real.
And they have a propensity to be very dangerous.
And the French Police have different criteria for which to determine intervention.
And depending on the day… you may not feel welcome. (For those of you semantically challenged that means “unwelcome”.)
And it may not just be a day, it could be a season… like “
Strike Season” which occurs in the fall and had become the traditional period in which everyone who thinks they have something to gain goes on strike. Even the Homeless… I kid you not.
So keep an eye out for this story not to go away.
