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, Frances 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 Marseilles 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 drivers reaction was inappropriate, he said. The explanation comes with this presidents 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 werent 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, Frances 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 Merahs 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.
Well, Oh Sainted One, civility is in the eye of the beholder. And yours are dripping with jaundice. Nothing wrong with being an evangel Christian as I am one myself. Where you and I part company is with your benign perception of Islam. Sure, Muslims can be converted to Christianity and evangelicals are all for that. In fact, my Church on occasion and I have personally witnessed their Baptisms. But, this is the Christian side of conversion. Islam does not condone nor accept conversion to another faith. Any Muslim that does this is doing so at the peril of their life and their families lives. In fact, there have been at least two so called honor killings in my community over the past few years. About you; you’re either very naive or are misrepresenting yourself. No one knowledgeable about the Middle East and Islam would take your position(s) on the subject. Btw, not being uncivil, just stating a fact. Happy New Year :)
Not only do you not know what you are talking bout, your reading comprehension sucks. I never said Islam was benign, nor did I suggest it wouldn't be dangerous. I merely stated the need to evangelize (yes, even in France).
And yes, I am a saint. All Christians are. That is how the Bible uses the term, and that is how we roll.
But don't worry your precious head, we that have sold out to Christ will reach those that need His Gospel. Or we will die trying. Go back to sleep. This Master has no need of you, nor your attitude.
“Not only do you not know what you are talking bout, your reading comprehension sucks.”
LOL! Well, so much for any pretense of civility! You’re too funny. I’ve finally flushed you out. You’re nothing but a lurker liberal who’s living off of welfare and has nothing better to do than flame people on this blog. Oh, and btw, you’re no Christian :)
“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 Fathers 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.”
BTTT
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