"Rock the Casbah" just reinforces the idea that such "No-Go Zones have been around for CENTURIES.
The casbah in Algiers.
Posted on 01/28/2015 6:27:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Recently Fox News apologized for referring to several areas in Europe as “no-go zones.” The apology followed an interview with Steven Emerson, Executive Director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, who incorrectly claimed Birmingham, England was a Muslim city. The apology claimed the “no-go zone” statement was also incorrect. Julie Banderas asserted, “we have made some regrettable errors on air regarding the Muslim population in Europe, particularly with regard to England and France. To be clear, there is no formal designation of these zones in either country and no credible information to support the assertion there are specific areas in these countries that exclude individuals based solely on their religion.” Fox’s Jeanine Pirro, host of “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” also apologized stating, “Last week on this program a guest made a serious factual error that we wrongly let stand unchallenged and uncorrected. The guest asserted that the city of Birmingham, England, is totally Muslim and that it is a place where non-Muslims don’t go. Both are incorrect.”
It has been suggested that Fox made these apologies as a result of pressure from Saudi billionaire, Alwaleed bin Talal, a major stockholder in Fox’s parent company. But that doesn't explain why CNN went the same way. Anderson Cooper stated, “In the wave of the Paris attacks, several guests on this program mentioned ‘no-go zones’ in France. I didn’t challenge them and twice referred to them as well. I should have been more skeptical, I won't make the same mistake again." Apparently the claim that there are “no-go zones” is now taboo. Both Media Matters and the Washington Post have declared it to be a myth.
Are “no-go zones” really a myth? It appears to depend on the terminology used.
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I have no idea whether there are no-go areas in Great Britain (although I hear a lot about Tower Hamlets) and certainly French authorities would not officially designate an area as “no go” but even in the United States we have no-go areas. Our no-go areas are not Muslim, they are African American. Who are we kidding?
Although both Wiki and the Urban Dictionary give the definition of “Casbah” as the politically correct “Citadel” or “Walled Section of Town populated primarily by Muslims”, I REMEMBER from my childhood that the casbah was a section of town that the Police did not enter because it was controlled by Muslims who had their own law. This folk-definition was reinforced by cartoons and movies and such silly expressions as “Come Fly With Me to The Casbah”.
In effect, the Casbah was the older section of a town, usually in North Africa, that was walled, filled with Muslims, and essentially a no-go-zone for the Colonial police.
So it is actually a very old concept.
“The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris”
A superb read; I doubt anything has improved since this article was written.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html
A villager called the police, who said they could not come at the moment, but who politely called back half an hour later to find out how things were going. Two hours later still, they finally appeared, but the rodeo had moved on, leaving behind only the remains of a burned-out car. The blackened patch on the road was still visible when I visited.
They greet the admirable firemen (whose motto is Sauver ou périr, save or perish) with Molotov cocktails and hails of stones when they arrive on their mission of mercy, so that armored vehicles frequently have to protect the fire engines.
The inhabitants of the cités are exceptionally well armed. When the professional robbers among them raid a bank or an armored car delivering cash, they do so with bazookas and rocket launchers, and dress in paramilitary uniforms. From time to time, the police discover whole arsenals of Kalashnikovs in the cités.
There may be no ‘official’ no-go areas in many places. But the locals know where not to go........just like in Los Angeles. I remember driving back from Disneyland through LA one night. The freeway was closed and my choices were to get off the freeway and find my way around the closure or go out of my way via another freeway that would eventually route me back to my way home. I chose to go the long way around. My sister said ‘why don’t we just take the streets around the closed area’. I told her there was no way I was getting off the freeway in that area of town. This was 20 years ago, too.
...He was driving along a six-lane highway with housing projects on both sides, when a man tried to dash across the road.
My acquaintance hit him at high speed and killed him instantly.
According to French law, the participants in a fatal accident must stay as near as possible to the scene, until officials have elucidated all the circumstances. The police therefore took my informant to a kind of hotel nearby, where there was no staff, and the door could be opened only by inserting a credit card into an automatic billing terminal. Reaching his room, he discovered that all the furniture was of concrete, including the bed and washbasin, and attached either to the floor or walls.
The following morning, the police came to collect him, and he asked them what kind of place this was. Why was everything made of concrete?
“But don’t you know where you are, monsieur?” they asked. “C’est la Zone, c’est la Zone.”
“....but even in the United States we have no-go areas.”
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How can that be? We have become such a “our-strength-is-in- our-diversity” type of society.
But everyone says that our racial relationships have so much improved since the march in Selma? MLK’s dream has come to fruition.
Someone is not telling the truth.
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin’ to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a’ cruisin’ down the ville
The muezzin was a’ standing
On the radiator grille
[Chorus]
The sharif don’t like it
Rockin’ the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The sharif don’t like it
Rockin’ the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric kettle drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the sharif
Had cleared the square
They began to wail
[Chorus]
Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack ‘em in
The in crowd say it’s cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a whiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive
[Chorus]
The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the sharif was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the sharif was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
[Chorus]
He thinks it’s not kosher
Fundamentally he can’t take it.
You know he really hates it.
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Start a “GoFundMe” page for any journalist or public figure that says so. The funding will:
Pay for them to have a ticket to any zone you deem is no-go.
Pay for them to wear a yarmulke.
Have them walk through that zone for 30 days at various times during the day and night.
Do it or shut up.
Send them right to Malmo, Sweden; then on to Marseille, France; then to a similar zone in the UK and then Germany.
They will be dead before a month.
It only indicates that host countries should be really selective in their immigration policies.
For instance, we have a large Vietnamese/Chinese community in Houston which is definitely not a “No-Go” zone. In fact, I feel safer in that area than I would downtown.
I go there reluctantly, because the food is too good, too cheap but too fattening.
No myth. Just go to Malmo Sweden. If you’re a pretty blond woman you will not be pretty when they take you out feet first.
The stinking bearded savages control vast areas of once-civilized countries and this is a “myth”?
RE: The stinking bearded savages control vast areas of once-civilized countries and this is a “myth”?
Weren’t the Swedes once stinking, bearded savages?
If so, what was done to them to change their character should be done to these savages too.
We do have Islamic no-go zones in the US. Google “islamberg.”
Exactly! Race relations are an all time low thanks to Obama and the media. Just because there is no state-sponsored no-go areas (I doubt Europe puts anything in writing!) doesn’t mean there are no-go areas. Boy, could we use Orwell now.
I will google. This, perhaps, will tell me what I’ve always suspected: that we are no better than Europe in this regard, just behind them 10-20 years.
Most Vietnamese and Korean immigrants are very good. Here, in the northeast, they control the manicure salons! And they are artists.
You’re correct... we are headed down the same path.
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