I've learned about communities almost solely composed of Muslims with similar ethnic ties. One of my main concerns about these areas, beyond terror ties, is the abuse that routinely occurs. These are communities, like some here in the US, where residents do not call police. But these Muslim areas do have their own law enforcement that not only deals with crime but hides the occurrence of things like FGM and the repression of women.
Muslims integrated into the UK society have formed various groups to get the word out and try to convince newer immigrants that these practices are not Islamic. But this is happening on a fairly large scale in western countries to small girls. This is not religion as understood in the west.
More than 130 million women living today have been subjected to this horrifying practice, and more than two million girls are assaulted by it each year. That is more than five thousand girls every day. Many girls lose their lives during FGM, which is often done with broken glass. Most victims suffer from chronic infection and pain for the rest of their lives. The mutilation robs women of their ability to enjoy the fullness of their sexuality and, therefore, the fullness of their lives. Approximately 75 percent of women cannot achieve orgasm without clitoral stimulation; thus, the possibility of sexual satisfaction has been obliterated for millions of women in the Muslim world.
The Muslim communities who practice FGM will not easily abandon their barbarity. The Egyptian government, for example, banned FGM in 1996, but an Egyptian court overturned the ban in July 1997. The problem is that the clitoris mutilators point to traditional teachings that sanction FGM. Islamic tradition, for instance, records the Prophet Muhammad emphasizing that circumcising girls is a preservation of honor for women. A legal manual of the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence, 'Umdat al-Salik, which is endorsed by Al-Azhar University of Cairo -- the oldest and most prestigious university in the Islamic world -- states that circumcision is obligatory for both boys and girls.
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/gonews.php?subaction=showfull&id=1238517067&ucat=1&
The Muslim enclaves are able to operate without effective oversight because of PC. There really can't be any other reason why we would let women and girls be repressed, mutilated and killed without response.
And it's not reported widely for that same reason. No one is supposed to make negative inferences about Islam. I know this all came from a good place, the west's acceptance of people and their religions, traditions etc but since when did we abandon our moral principles? To stand up for the people being abused in our own countries under the guise of religious freedom?
But the only real reports you'll find are on blogs, or the Daily Mail and such tabloid type papers. But I don't find comfort in the lack of MSM reporting. Perhaps others do. Occassionally they'll be an article on FGM in a paper like the Guardian which tries to divorce it as much as possible from any link to Islam by, IMO, misleadingly linking referencing Christianity and the Bible as though this were some practice being committed as frequently by Christians & Jews as by Muslims:
female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that serves as a social and cultural bonding exercise...The rite of passage, condemned by many Islamic scholars, predates both the Koran and the Bible and possibly even Judaism, appearing in the 2nd century BC.
But for people familiar with these enclaves, it is no secret that the inhabitants are Muslim and they are not integrated into the larger society and no efforts are being made by them to do so. Efforts are instead directed at formalizing their self government under which they can operate with impunity without regard to civil and other rights.
The rise in community justice means crimes as serious as murder and sexual abuse are going unreported a situation reminiscent of Belfast in the height of the Troubles....
Honour killings, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children and female genital mutilations are some of the offences that are believed to be unreported in some cities.
Last December, three members of a self-styled Muslim Patrol vigilante group were jailed for harassing, intimidating and assaulting people in East London while claiming they were enforcing sharia law....there have been growing concerns over the emergence of sharia courts in some Muslim communities.
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The response from the Muslim Council of Britain was to note a rise in Islamophobic hate crime.
As was noted by another, Molenbeck in Brussels, is a well known no go zone which provided a haven some of the Paris terrorists.
Molenbeek has been connected to almost all of Belgiums terrorism-related incidents in recent years. Moroccan national Ayoub el-Khazzani, who opened fire with a Kalashnikov on a high-speed Thalys train in August had lived in Molenbeek. French-Algerian Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last year, spent time in the area. And the two suspected terrorists killed by Belgian police in a shootout in the eastern town of Verviers in January were from Molenbeek.
We dont officially have no-go zones in Brussels, but in reality, there are, and they are in Molenbeek.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-terror-attacks-visiting-molenbeek-the-police-no-go-zone-that-was-home-to-two-of-the-gunmen-a6735551.html
People bring these things up because they exist. I also see no reason why so many people would just make these things up. This realistic look should not just be dismissed as bigotry. Every single way of life is NOT equal. Bad is not good. Mutilation is not just a cultural difference. Honor killing is not justifiable homicide.
I'm referring to the Sharia Law zones/areas/cities people keep bringing up. I live in a big city and there are places I avoid after dark, but not because there are Muslims there blocking my entry or because I might get caned for having a drink.