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§ A poll conducted this summer found that 29% of
French Muslims found Sharia to be more important to them than French laws. It
also found that 67% of Muslims want their children to study Arabic, and 56%
think it should be taught in public schools.
§ A 2016 UK poll showed that 43% of British
Muslims "believed that parts of the Islamic legal system should replace
British law while only 22 per cent opposed the idea". Another poll from
2016 found that 23% of all Muslims supported the introduction of sharia law in
some areas of Britain, 39% agreed that "wives should always obey their
husbands," and 52% of all British Muslims believe that homosexuality
should be illegal.
§ French President Emmanuel Macron blamed France,
not Islam, for the increased radicalization, which he said should lead France
to "question itself." According to Macron, then, the parallel Islamic
societies of France, have nothing to do with Islam. They are the fault of the
French republic. Did the French republic impose sharia and the subjugation of
women in the suburbs, described by one female survivor as "hell"? Was
the French republic behind the recent distribution of leaflets stipulating
"if you meet a Jew, kill him"?
A French intellectual, Christian Moliner, recently suggested that
France should establish a Muslim state-within-a-state that adheres to sharia
law, inside the borders of France, to avoid a civil war. Warning against refusing
to deal with the problems of Islamism in Europe because of political
correctness, he stated:
"Out of the fear of appearing Islamophobic, to satisfy this
bustling fringe of Muslims, governments are ready to accept the spread of
radical practices throughout the country.... [some] territories are outside the
control of the Republic. The police can come only in force and for limited
durations... We can never convert the 30% of Muslims who demand the
introduction of sharia law to the merits of our democracy and secularism. We
are now allowing segregation to take place that does not say its name."
Moliner's solution?
"... Establish a dual system of law in France... one
territory, one government, but two peoples: the French with the usual laws and
Muslims with Qur'anic status (but only for those who choose it)... The latter
will have the right to vote... but they will apply Sharia in everyday life, to
regulate matrimonial laws (which will legalize polygamy) and inheritance...
They will no longer apply to French judges for disputes between Muslims...
conflicts between Christians and believers will remain the responsibility of
ordinary courts..."
Moliner's proposal represents a total surrender to political Islam
and is of course outrageous, especially considering that Muslims only comprise a little
more than five percent of the French population. What he suggests, however,
merely formalizes the status quo that already exists -- and not only in France
-- even if it abandons reform-minded Muslims and eventually, with their
collapsing demography, the non-Muslims there.
In France, the no-go zones with their Islamization and Islamic
law, sharia, and most noticeably the subjugation of women, has already spread
from the suburbs (banlieues) to the cities themselves. As Gatestone's
Yves Mamou described:
"... no-go zones are no longer relegated to the suburbs,
where migrants and Muslims have usually been concentrated. No-go zones, through
mass migration, have been emerging in the heart of Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse,
Marseille, Grenoble, Avignon -- districts 'privatized'
here and there by a mix of drug traffickers, Salafist zealots and Islamic youth
gangs. The main victims are women. They are -- both Muslim and non-Muslim --
sexually harassed; some are sexually assaulted".
Last year, French TV aired a documentary about women disappearing from
public view in certain areas, where parallel Islamic societies had taken hold.
The program named Sevran in the district of Seine-Saint Denis -- a suburb of
Paris described by French political scientist Gilles Kepel as "the capital
of French Islam". There are 1.4 million people living in the district of
Seine-Saint-Denis. More than 600,000 of them are Muslims. The French postal
service recently said that it will
no longer supply its Chronopost delivery service to Seine-Saint-Denis -- the
danger to their delivery drivers is too high. Last year, 51 of its delivery
drivers were reportedly attacked while doing their rounds.
In France, a poll conducted by Institut Montaigne this
summer found that 29% of
French Muslims found sharia to be more important to them than French laws. It
also found that 67% of Muslims want their children to study Arabic and 56%
think it should be taught in public schools.
A 2016 UK poll, apparently the largest poll ever done on the
subject in the UK, showed that 43% of
British Muslims "believed that parts of the Islamic legal system should
replace British law while only 22 per cent opposed the idea". A different
poll, also from 2016, found that nearly a
quarter (23%) of all Muslims supported the introduction of sharia law in some
areas of Britain, and 39% agreed that "wives should always obey their
husbands", compared with 5% of the country as a whole. Nearly a third
(31%) thought it was acceptable for a British Muslim man to have more than one
wife, compared with 8% of the wider population. According to the same poll, 52%
of all British Muslims believe that homosexuality should be illegal.
According to a 2014 study of Moroccan
and Turkish Muslims in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and
Sweden, an average of almost 60% of the Muslims polled agreed that Muslims
should return to the roots of Islam; 75% thought there is only one
interpretation of the Koran possible and 65 % said that Sharia is more
important to them than the laws of the country in which they lived. The
specific numbers for Germany were that
47% of Muslims believe Sharia is more important than German law. In Sweden, 52% of Muslims believe that Sharia is
more important than Swedish law.
As the polls show, there already are "two peoples" in
France and large parts of Europe, who wish to live according to completely
different standards, as Moliner suggests. Politicians persist in ignoring these
facts or downplaying them. So why be shocked at the suggestion of a
"two-state solution" for France? How do these politicians, who do not
even acknowledge the problems, propose to tackle the fact that large
percentages of their population would rather live under sharia law? They do not
propose anything. They pretend that this information does not exist.
French President Emmanuel Macron, is an example of such immunity
to facts: "Radicalization has taken hold because the French Republic has
resigned," Macron said recently about
the Islamization of the French suburbs. Macron blamed France, not Islam, for
the increased radicalization, which he said should lead France to
"question itself". Macron noted that, "We allowed, in too many
cities, too many districts, representatives of a distortion of a religion,
which are full of hate and disenfranchisement to provide solutions that the Republic
no longer gives."
According to Macron, then, the parallel Islamic societies of
France, have nothing to do with Islam. They are the fault of the French
republic. Did the French republic impose Sharia and the subjugation of women in
the suburbs, described by one
female survivor as "hell"? Was the French republic behind the
recent distributionof leaflets stipulating
"if you meet a Jew, kill him"? Did the French republic force the
mother of Mohammed Merah, the man who killed a little Jewish girl at school by
shooting her in the head, while screaming "Allahu Akbar", to say that
"the prophet permits the killing of Jewish children"?
France, as well as the rest of Europe, is -- wittingly or
unwittingly -- heading towards the "two-state solution" outlined by
Moliner, whether it wants it or not. That fact, however, does not appear
particularly to bother the political establishment.
Judith Bergman is a columnist, lawyer and political analyst.