Posted on 01/04/2014 12:28:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The French city of Marseillaise has an estimated 30 to 40 percent Muslim population and has been ranked as the most dangerous city in Europe.
The gritty Mediterranean port, France’s second-largest city, was appointed the “cultural capital of Europe,” a rotating European Union honor. City fathers launched beautification projects, created new tourism attractions and invited people from around the world to visit. A splendid stone esplanade was laid around the Old Port, peppered with novel sculpture, and a high-tech historical museum went up next to City Hall.
How did that work out?
The eruption has refocused attention on Marseille’s long-standing reputation as a European drug-smuggling hub, a place where entire neighborhoods have slipped away from police control and fallen under the command of gangsters who earn millions importing and selling North African hashish and settle turf disputes with AK-47 assault rifles.
“Marseille is sick with its violence,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.
Vowing to squash the drug trade and end the violence, Valls last week dispatched 250 paramilitary and other national police officers to reinforce the usual deployment of around 3,000. The night after they were deployed, with television cameras in tow, another body was found, burned to a crisp with a bullet in its charred skull, the execution method local traffickers call the “barbecue.” The next day, two Turkish immigrants were shot and wounded, and a pair of youths driving by on a motor scooter opened fire with a pistol on a third man, wounding him in the legs.
Marseille doesn’t have a violence problem. It has a Muslim immigrant problem.
In September 2011, at between 4 and 5 am, around 15 people “apparently in a state of drunkenness” broke into the barracks belonging to a military fire service, shouted at the firemen on duty there then began firing shots at them. 7 firemen were wounded, of whom 4 were taken to hospital. The party of “jeunes” had apparently come from a bus chartered by a group of Cape Verdians in Nice to travel to an “Africa night” in Marseilles.
A week later, a bus driver was attacked by passengers when he refused to allow two burka-clad women to travel on his bus. It is illegal in France to wear the burka in public. When one of the women tried to board the bus, displaying a bus pass bearing a photograph, the driver insisted that she unveil so he could verify her identity. She refused to do this and, after some discussion, decided to leave and wait for the next bus.
Angry passengers (“jeunes”) then took the side of the women and beat up the driver, accusing him of being a “racist”. They then invited the burka-wearing woman to re-enter the bus. But when the police arrived, they scattered. Police booked the woman for wearing a burka.
In reacting to the incident, the president of the Marseilles Transport Authority, which operated the bus, appeared to sympathise with the woman rather than, as might have been expected, his own driver. The driver’s reaction was “inappropriate”, he said. The explanation comes with this “president’s” name: Karim Zéribi.
Muslims have now set up unofficial checkpoints in various parts of Marseilles. Anyone entering “their” area has to stop and submit to inspection. Last week, the driver of a van belonging to a food bank, which distributes free food and drink to poor people, was stopped by a group of “jeunes” when trying to enter the Marseilles district of “Air-Bel”. The road had been barred with concrete blocks and bins filled with sand. They searched his vehicle “like policemen applying the law in their territory” in order to “check there weren’t any policemen inside”. When they saw he only had milk, they let him pass through.
This is what a real No Go Zone looks like. As I wrote last year, Marseilles is on track to becoming France’s first majority Muslim city.
Muslims had attacked the port city in the 9th century capturing it and enslaving its native inhabitants. That which Muslims once took, their theologians insist is theirs in perpetuity. The Muslim return to Marseille is seen as a reconquista, a return to the land that was once theirs.
Nearly half of all immigrants to France are Muslim. In Marseille 41.8 percent of those under 18 were of foreign descent.
La Marseillaise, France’s National Anthem, got its name when volunteer revolutionaries from Marseille sang the song. Now Marseille is at the center of a new revolution. The Islamic Revolution. Muslim volunteers from France have been identified training with the Taliban and after Mohammed Merah’s massacre at a Jewish school, a group of Jews in Marseille were attacked by Muslim men shouting, “Vive Mohamed Merah, F— the Jews, Palestine will win.”
This is what happens when the cultural capital of Europe meets Muslim immigration.
God says differently.
Now... 
you tell me!
That's why they pay us... 
the big buck, Flint--
You Americans... 
It is always about money isn't it?
It is supposed to be Queen, County and all... 
the sex you can handle!
James, you do... 
have a point!
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trying to evangelize muslims is a fools errand. They only understand force and violence.
OK then, we need to start forcing and violencing them.
Hi.
Yes! Rage and Pride. More ideological, though.
Also try out Ali and Nino, by Kurban Said. Very romantic, though.
For a flick, try out The September Tapes. Modern.
Islam is a war plan.
This author apparently doesn’t understand that Cape Verdeans aren’t Muslim and “jeune” merely refers to young people.
“God says differently.” I doubt that God objected to our violence with the Germans and Japanese. I see little difference now except our apparent passivity and accomodation with muslims. How long do we wait before we get our backs up?
I read Ali and Nino in the late 70’s. I truly loved it. I now own it and have read it again since with a deeper understanding how things are in that part of the world. I understand that the author was actually Jewish.
Thank-you for the recommendations. I am looking into them.
Have a Joyous New Year.
When we have to go to war, then we have to go to war. But there are many former Muslims that would tell you the same thing: we need to open our mouths about the Gospel and let God do the rest.
Are you saved? That is to say, have you asked Jesus to save you? No mean no offense, but you speak as a humanist; as if you have no orientation to a Christian worldview.
The city of Marseille has long been rated with Hamburg and Shanghai as rough port cities. People have lived in that area for about 30,000 years. They have lived in brick houses there for 8,000 years. It was a major port by the 4th Century BC.
Islam is an ideology no different in objective than communism or national socialism. All incompatible with democracy therefor not apples and oranges as I see it. I am not a biblical scholar, but from what I understand Christ was not suicidal or a pacifist.
Marseillaise is a song about Marseilles.
“Muslims are open to the Gospel:”
Huh # 2. You gotta be kidding me. Any Muslim who defects to Christianity is subject to being killed.
It is still correct though, to say that the Marseillaise is the most dangerous song in Europe... for us to pronounce.
Surrender!!!
As much as we are predisposed to hate people, God loves people, and He will do anything to reconcile those that are His. I have a friend who led 27 to Christ this past year in the Wash DC area alone. My former pastor is running an underground church in a Muslim country. I also support the underground church in Iran. Muslims are very open to the Gospel, and they are secretly coming to Christ by the thousands.
arabsforchrist.org is a good resource, and it's not the only one.
That is not to say that all Muslims are open to receive Jesus as Saviour. By the same token, all Americans are not open to the Gospel.
For that matter, all FReepers are not open to the Gospel.
“That is not to say that all Muslims are open to receive Jesus as Saviour. By the same token, all Americans are not open to the Gospel.”
Umm, I apparently know more than you - which isn’t saying much. But, nevertheless, few non-Muslim Americans, regardless of faith or lack off, favor killing those who they disagree with. Conversely, many (most) Muslims do. Do your homework, then perhaps presenting yourself as an expert on this subject might have a modicum of credibility. Perhaps :)
I never said I was an expert. I know the Bible, and what God has said concerning evangelization, and I have lived in the Middle East: all Muslims to not favor killing those who disagree with them. But if that is your impression of them, so be it.
Let's just agree to disagree, and be civil towards one another.
“Let’s just agree to disagree, and be civil towards one another.”
Ah, so now you want to be civil. Ok, let’s be civil. But, you should know that there are very few “moderate” Muslins. I have worked with several over the years, all professionals and well educated. And, when they drop their guard and the onion is peeled during the course of a conversation enevitably their hatred of the west and in particular Christians and Jews surfaces. So, disagree to your hearts content but don’t take the position of having superior knowledge - if you want to be civil that is.
I am always civil. I merely pointed out, that there are thousands of Muslims accepting Christ because of the power of the Gospel. You point to you small sample size of your personal experience. I point to entire ministries and having lived in the Middle East. Nobody is going to stop the Gospel from spreading, and that includes spoiled Americans that do not understand the Father’s plan of redeeming others (from all nations) to Himself. Hurl insults if you wish, but I side with Christ and the power of the Gospel to save ANYONE.
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