October 29, 2011

Europe: “You Are Entering a Sharia Controlled Zone”

Hezbollah Pitches Tent in Denmark

By Soeren Kern, HUDSON INSTITUTE

A Muslim group in Denmark has launched a campaign to turn parts of Copenhagen and other Danish cities into “Sharia Law Zones” that would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic law.

The Danish Islamist group Kaldet til Islam (Call to Islam) says the Tingbjerg suburb of Copenhagen will be the first part of Denmark to be subject to Sharia law, followed by the Nørrebro district of the capital and then other parts of the country, the center-right Jyllands-Posten newspaper reported on October 17.

Call to Islam says it will dispatch 24-hour Islamic ‘morals police’ to enforce Sharia law in those enclaves. The patrols will confront anyone caught drinking alcohol, gambling, going to discothèques or engaging in other activities the group views as running contrary to Islam.

Integration Minister Karen Haekkerup told Jyllands-Posten “I consider this to be very serious. Anything that attempts to undermine our democracy, we must crack down on it and consistently so.”

The Call to Islam group promotes Salafism, a fundamentalist sect within Sunni Islam that espouses a literalist reading of Islamic scriptures and adheres to a conservative and highly regulated puritan lifestyle.

Salafism also seeks the destruction of Western democracy, which is to be replaced by a Universal Islamic Caliphate, a worldwide Islamic theocracy regulated by Sharia law.

In a statement on its website, Call to Islam asks: “How can we [Muslims] claim to be followers of the Sunnah [principles established by the Islamic prophet Mohammed] and defend the best Deen [doctrines of Allah], when we prefer to live among the infidels, be subject to their laws, emulate them and fail to differentiate ourselves from their kufr [camp of unbelievers]? How can we claim to love Allah and His Messenger when we are embarrassed to call for Sharia? How can we be indifferent to the establishment of Allah’s rule on Earth, which is a duty for every Muslim?”

The statement continues: “To work to establish the Caliphate is one of the biggest tasks of our time. And this task cannot be achieved unless we work collectively under an Emir [commander, general or prince]. Moreover, it is known that it is a duty to fight the evil that is prevalent everywhere around us. Man-made laws and rules are present today and it has now become a mandatory obligation for all Muslims to work collectively to rid the world of this great munkar [evil], democracy.”

Denmark’s TV2 public television recently filmed members of Call to Islam in downtown Copenhagen openly campaigning for the abolishment of democracy and calling on people not to vote in parliamentary elections that were held on September 15.

A video posted on the Call to Islam website asks: “Do you want to take part in establishing Sharia in Denmark? Or do you want to stand by? The choice is yours!”

Call to Islam in Denmark is emulating similar movements in other parts of Europe.

In Britain, for example, a Muslim group called Muslims Against the Crusades has launched a campaign to turn twelve British cities – including what it calls “Londonistan” – into independent Islamic states. The so-called Islamic Emirates would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic Sharia law and operate entirely outside British jurisprudence.

The Islamic Emirates Project names the British cities of Birmingham, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Sheffield, as well as Waltham Forest in northeast London and Tower Hamlets in East London as territories to be targeted for blanket Sharia rule.

In the Tower Hamlets area of East London (also known as the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets), for example, extremist Muslim preachers, called the Tower Hamlets Taliban, regularly issue death threats to women who refuse to wear Islamic veils. Neighborhood streets have been plastered with posters declaring “You are entering a Sharia controlled zone: Islamic rules enforced.” And street advertising deemed offensive to Muslims is regularly vandalized or blacked out with spray paint.

In Belgium, a radical Muslim group called Sharia4Belgium recently established an Islamic Sharia law court in Antwerp, the country’s second-largest city. Leaders of the group say the purpose of the court is to create a parallel Islamic legal system in Belgium in order to challenge the state’s authority as enforcer of the civil law protections guaranteed by the Belgian constitution.

The Sharia court, which is located in Antwerp’s Borgerhout district, is “mediating” family law disputes for Muslim immigrants in Belgium. The self-appointed Muslim judges running the court are applying Islamic law, rather than the secular Belgian Family Law system, to resolve disputes involving questions of marriage and divorce, child custody and child support, as well as all inheritance-related matters.

Unlike Belgian civil law, Islamic Sharia law does not guarantee equal rights for men and women; critics of the Sharia court say it will undermine the rights of Muslim women in marriage and education. Legal experts say the Islamic court will also undercut the Belgian state’s ability to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of so-called honor crimes.

Sharia4Belgium says the court in Antwerp will eventually expand its remit and handle criminal cases as well.

In Germany, the spread of Islamic Sharia law is far more advanced than previously thought, and German authorities are “powerless” to do anything about it, according to a new book about the Muslim shadow justice system in Germany.

The 236-page book titled “Judges Without Law: Islamic Parallel Justice Endangers Our Constitutional State,” which was authored by Joachim Wagner, a German legal expert and former investigative journalist for ARD German public television, says Islamic Sharia courts are now operating in all of Germany’s big cities.

This “parallel justice system” is undermining the rule of law in Germany, Wagner says, because Muslim arbiters-cum-imams are settling criminal cases out of court without the involvement of German prosecutors or lawyers before law enforcement can bring the cases to a German court.

In France, Islamic Sharia law is rapidly displacing French civil law in many parts of suburban Paris. The 2,200-page report, “Banlieue de la République” (Suburbs of the Republic) says France is on the brink of a major social explosion because of the failure of Muslims to integrate into French society.

The report shows how the problem is being exacerbated by radical Muslim leaders who are promoting the social marginalization of Muslim immigrants in order to create a parallel Muslim society in France that is ruled by Sharia law.

In Spain, Salafi preachers in the north-eastern region of Catalonia have set up Sharia tribunals to judge the conduct of both practicing and non-practicing Muslims in Spain. They also deploy Islamic “religious police” in Lérida and other Catalan municipalities to monitor and punish Muslims who do not comply.

In one case, nine Salafists kidnapped a woman in Reus, tried her for adultery based on Sharia law, and condemned her to death. The woman just barely escaped execution by fleeing to a local police station.

In another case, a Salafi imam in Tarragona was arrested for forcing a 31-year-old Moroccan woman to wear a hijab head covering. The imam had threatened to burn down the woman’s house for being and “infidel” because she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends.

Back in Denmark, local politicians appear oblivious to the spread of Sharia law. In September, the city council of Copenhagen gave its final approval for the construction of the first official “Grand Mosque” in the Danish capital.

The mega-mosque will have a massive blue dome as well as two towering minarets and is architecturally designed to stand out on Copenhagen’s low-rise skyline.

Unlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Copenhagen pertains to Shia Islam. The mosque is being financed by the Islamic Republic of Iran and critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah in Europe.

The Copenhagen city council says that who pays for building the mosque is none of its concern. But the Copenhagen mosque is, in fact, being built bty Ahlul Beit Foundation, a radical Shia Muslim proselytizing and political lobbying group run by the Iranian government.

Ahlul Beit already runs around 70 Islamic centers around the world, and has as its primary goal the promoting of the religious and political views of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ahlul Beit is especially focused on spreading Islamic Sharia law throughout Europe including Denmark.

Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group

Posted by Ted Belman @ 4:47 pm | 21 Comments »

21 Responses to Europe: “You Are Entering a Sharia Controlled Zone”

  1. If the police will not put a stop to this, vigilante organizations should be formed for that purpose.

    In the Tower Hamlets area of East London (also known as the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets), for example, extremist Muslim preachers, called the Tower Hamlets Taliban, regularly issue death threats to women who refuse to wear Islamic veils.

    If England’s police will not enforce laws against terroristic threats, then something well to the right of the BNP or EDL will be needed to TAKE OUT THE TRASH.

    The concept of vigilantism is offensive to civilized societies only because there is a Social Contract that says the law protects the rights of people, in exchange for which people surrender some personal autonomy (including the freedom to take the law into their own hands). If the law can’t or won’t protect the rights of people to be free from coercion, death threats, violence, and laws other than those created by the society’s legitimate institutions, the Social Contract is broken and it is reasonable and necessary for people to begin to take the law into their own hands. If the sheriff has been bought, or has himself been terrorized into ineffectiveness by bandits and outlaws, well, that is what posses and vigilance groups are for.

    In one case, nine Salafists kidnapped a woman in Reus, tried her for adultery based on Sharia law, and condemned her to death. The woman just barely escaped execution by fleeing to a local police station.

    Like a broken clock that is right twice every day, the Spanish Inquisition did have legitimate uses. Maybe Ferdinand and Isabella were right about Spain’s Musloid population after all.

    In France, Islamic Sharia law is rapidly displacing French civil law in many parts of suburban Paris. The 2,200-page report, “Banlieue de la République” (Suburbs of the Republic) says France is on the brink of a major social explosion because of the failure of Muslims to integrate into French society.

    If they won’t assimilate, round them up and ship them back to wherever they came from or indeed anywhere else (except the U.S.).

    This “parallel justice system” is undermining the rule of law in Germany, Wagner says, because Muslim arbiters-cum-imams are settling criminal cases out of court without the involvement of German prosecutors or lawyers before law enforcement can bring the cases to a German court.

    Germany already knows how to do a Krystallnacht and maybe that will be what is needed to deal with this infestation of GENUINE Untermenschen (by choice and not race or ethnicity). Come to think of it, the rats in “The Eternal Jew” can be spliced with these imams to make them (the rats) serve a good purpose for a change. “Wherever rats turn up, they spread disease…” “They are cowardly, cruel, and usually appear in massive hordes.”

    Musloids are cowardly and cruel, and their massive hordes tend to run away whenever they are confronted by anybody (e.g. the Poles at Vienna) who is willing to fight them. The Crimean Horde ran away the instant it saw the Poles! The hordes that attacked what they thought were helpless Jews in 1948 ran like the subhuman rats they are when the Jews fought back, and it is unfortunate that the Jews did not exterminate every last one of them. It’s too bad Israel did not have nukes in 1948 with which to light up Cairo, Damascus, and every other major rat hole in the region. Then the other three wars would not have happened.

  2. Laura says:

    But according to Chris Christie, it is just “crazy” to believe there is any such threat of sharia rule.

  3. BlandOatmeal says:

    A substantial number of Europeans must be in favor of Sharia, or it would not be so widespread. For the Socialists, Sharia offers heavy-handed, central control and policing of morals; and for the Conservatives, Sharia offers an old-fashioned Puritanical ethic. Only ethnic vanity, it seems, could keep Europe from such an irresistible draw. The only real opponents of Sharia, outside of throwback nationalists, are libertarian anarchists, on the one hand, who resist any kind of law or restraint, and Bible believers, who are morally bound to oppose the idolatry of Islam; and those two blocs seem to have been steadily falling out of favor in recent decades.

  4. BlandOatmeal says:

    Botted again. Am I becoming an “unperson”?

  5. yamit82 says:

    A group of scientists discovered an apelike creature in the wilds which they were certain was the Missing Link. The proof of their theory, though, required that a human mate with the ape in order to see what characteristics the offspring would take on. So, they put an ad in the paper: “$8000 to Mate with Ape”.
    The next morning a Pole called up in response to the ad, and said he’d be willing to be part of the experiment. “But,” he said, “I have three conditions!!”
    The scientists agreed to hear him out.
    “First: My wife must never know.
    “Second: The children must be raised as good Catholics.
    “Third: If I can pay in installments, I’m definitely interested”.

    Did you hear about the Polish bank?
    You bring in a toaster and they give you a thousand dollars.

    A Pole goes into a store and asks the clerk, “I’d like some Polish Sausage.”
    The clerk looks at him and says, “Are you Polish?”
    The Pole says, “Well, yes I am, but, if I had asked for Italian sausage would you ask me if I was Italian??? Or if I had asked for German sausage, would you ask me if I was German??? Or if I wanted a taco would you ask if I was Mexican???”
    The clerk says, “Well, no.”

    The Pole says, “WELL, why do you ask me if I’m Polish just because I ask for Polish sausage????

    “The clerk says, “Because this is a hardware store.”

  6. yamit82 says:

    Israeli Expert: America Headed Down Same Road as Europe with Islamization

    Dr. Kedar says that if America continues at its current pace, it will find itself in the same situation as Western Europe in the not-so-distant future. Namely, playing host to self-segregating Muslim enclaves where sharia is king.

    Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques
    Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi…Abstract

    Full article here

  7. BlandOatmeal says:

    Copernicus was Polish. Galileo was Italian. Newton was English. Einstein was an apostate Jew. It took a Pole to teach an Italian to teach an Englishman to teach a Jew about science; but the Jew couldn’t learn until he put away his rabbinic nonesense. Now we have Jews telling Polish jokes — not only are the Jews stupid, then; they don’t even know history.

  8. BlandOatmeal says:

    Yamit, you’re comparing (the U. S. of) America with Europe. We’ve been independent of Europe for 235 years. Israel has been independent for only 63 years. Who is more likely to “follow the leader”? Israel is still using British Mandate Law; we wrote our own constitution 222 years ago. I’m not saying America isn’t in trouble; just noting that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The Moslems are a small fifth column in the US and Europe; in Israel, they hold eleven seats in the knesset.

  9. Tzvi-Gad says:

    Almost every time I read something from Israpundit, it turns out to be not quite true. A sort of journalism I have come to expect from the ‘other’ side where a veneer of lies is thrown over a few unconnected facts.

    And so, the Tingbjerg suburb of Copenhagen isn’t in Copenhagen, but in the Herlev Municipality just outside of the Copenhagen municipal border. And, its not a suburb, but a housing development that has a population of about 6,500 people. Of these, about 40% are native Danes, but the housing estate finished construction in 1972, and this means that it is going to be ripe for demolition in about a decade.

    More worrying is the group’s wabsite http://www.kaldettilislam.com/Izharudeen/shariah-zone-i-danmark.html which was not added to the story.

    Of course mida keneged mida…so what they do will get them a payback in equal measure. Eventually it will see Muslims thrown out of Europe, and probably quite soon.

  10. yamit82 says:

    Your reply makes no sense re: the articles of which I supplied three separate links.

    Read what I posted, then respond to the articles or not. At least give me some indication you read them so I know where you are coming from. I supplied no personal opinion with the links. I quoted Dr. Kedar.

  11. Are you aware that the source of these Polish jokes might be the same people who put out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? The Russians (or Prussians) had to justify the Partitions of Poland so they circulated stories about how the Poles can’t govern themselves? Why not tell jokes like this?

    Q: Why did the Musloid suicide bomber carry a bottle of premium olive oil?
    A: He wanted extra virgins.

    A man wanted to marry a beautiful Islamic woman but her father said, “If you want to marry my daughter, you have to become a fundamentalist Muslim.”
    “How do I do that?”
    “They have to take out half your brain.”
    The man wanted to marry the woman so badly that he submitted to the operation but, when he woke up, the surgeon told him, “There’s been a horrible mistake! We took out three quarters of your brain!”
    “Yes we can! Obama 2012!” the patient replied.

    Q: How does the Taliban separate the men from the boys?
    A: With crowbars.

    Q: Why can the slowest Musloid run faster than the fastest IDF soldier?
    A: The ones that couldn’t are dead!

    Q: How does the Turkish Grand Vizier know the Poles have been in his camp?
    A: His Janissaries are dead, and his flags, artillery, and coffee are missing.

  12. yamit82 says:

    Are you aware that the source of these Polish jokes might be the same people who put out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? The Russians (or Prussians) had to justify the Partitions of Poland so they circulated stories about how the Poles can’t govern themselves? Why not tell jokes like this?

    Doubtful the tone language and attempt at humor is very American. Now though most ethnic jokes are interchangeable and they use stereotyping, I grew up with 2nd and 3rd generation Pollaks and I can attest from personal experience that though exaggerated the Poles I knew were very primitivski and quite stupid. Their Jew hatred was second to none and I put more than one in the emergency room and once they put me in the emergency room. Such was youth when I was growing up.

    The reason for my comment above was to point out to you that I am not happy with your puerile attempts to emulate Goebbels. I know many Muslims and on a one on one most are good folk, work hard to make a living and feed their 15-25 kids. That said I don’t trust them and have and would again off any that threatened me, my family or my countrymen.

    I have long learned to respect enemies and you disrespect them.
    In 1948 they killed over 1% of the Jewish community that works out to almost 18% of able bodied males. In 73 war they killed almost 3000 of ours and wounded well over 10,000, since 48 we have lost in wars and from terror over 30,000, Proportionately if it were America it would approach 200,000 casualties. When properly trained and led they are as good a fighters as most.

    Israels attitude after the 6 day war echoes your pseudo inflated bravado and that led to all of our mistakes that resulted in mass casualties and 30 years of national trauma that still permeates all strata in Israeli society.

    In the meantime those Muslims have historically conquered a third of the known world, whipped the Brits, the French, The Italians, the Russians and now the Americans.

  13. Jonathan Usher says:

    In Samaria they have signs that read, “no Israelis allowed in this area. It is dangerous. Proceed at your own risk.” Since Arab Israelis can go there with no danger to them, the real meaning of the sign is “No Jews allowed”. The signs in Europe will effectively mean “No Christians allowed.” or “No infidels allowed” Is that what Christian Europe really wants?

  14. John M Collins says:

    People are beginning to wake up to the dangers of Islamisation – witness the campaign in the UK against forced Islamic marriages. But the picture should not be exaggerated. The picture here in Leeds, England, for example, is not one of advance of Sharia, but rather of subtle secularisation of the prospering formerly immigrant Muslim community.

  15. Re: “I can attest from personal experience that though exaggerated the Poles I knew were very primitivski and quite stupid. Their Jew hatred was second to none and I put more than one in the emergency room and once they put me in the emergency room. Such was youth when I was growing up.”

    If they hated Jews, they were probably from the lowest intellectual levels of Polish society–corresponding to the segment of white society about which Black hate groups are actually right, and the segment of Black society about which the Ku Klux Klan happens to be right (like a broken clock that is right twice a day).

    I know many Muslims and on a one on one most are good folk, work hard to make a living and feed their 15-25 kids.

    The ones I know also are good people but they are Americans and not Palestinians. The ones you know are doubtlessly Arab Israelis who value Israel’s advanced society. None of them are the problem, and the same vermin who want to kill you and me would kill them as well for being the wrong kinds of Muslims.

    In the meantime those Muslims have historically conquered a third of the known world, whipped the Brits, the French, The Italians, the Russians and now the Americans.

    Musloids enjoyed a few temporary successes, mostly in Afghanistan in which modern weaponry and tactics are less useful then elsewhere. The British lost an entire army there in the 19th century, and the Russians did not do well either. These were the exceptions and not the rule. The capture of Constantinople in 1453 was the last major Islamic victory over Judeo-Christian societies. Here’s the record:

    2 September (1898) Battle of Omdurman: Kitchener 1, Evildoers 0
    12 September (1683) Battle of Vienna: Jan Sobieski 1, Evildoers 0
    7 October (1571) Battle of Lepanto: Don Juan 1, Evildoers 0
    9 October (1683) Battle of Parkany, Hungary. Jan Sobieski 1, Evildoers 0
    10 October (732) Battle of Tours: Charles Martel 1, Evildoers 0
    12 December (1790) Storm of Ismail: Aleksandr V. Suvorov 1, Evildoers 0

    The basic problem is that Islam as practiced in most of your parts of the world promotes ignorance and superstition–there are fewer than ten legitimate Muslim Nobel Prize winners, of which one has actually been persecuted by her country (Iran) for the activities for which she earned the Nobel Prize. The world’s 12 to 15 million Jews have earned far more Nobel Prizes than something like 1.5 billion Muslims. Same for the world’s Christians. That alone should tell you something.

    I have often pointed out that a behavioral choice is not a race, but certain Islamic behavioral choices are in fact creating genetically inferior races. http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=30246 “It is estimated that over 60 percent of Saudis marry first or second cousins, which is the highest in the world. However, the numbers are still staggering in Iraq (58 percent), Kuwait (55 percent), Jordan (50 percent) and the UAE (48 percent).” People who go to family reunions to find mates tend to pass on recessive genes to successive generations–the European royal families of Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm, and Tsar Nicholas II are a classic study in the transmission of hemophilia–with the result that you eventually breed genetically inferior people. Similar jokes have been made about white supremacists; “Their family trees don’t branch very much!” but, in the lands of militant “Islam,” it’s the truth and not a joke.

  16. BlandOatmeal says:

    “Dr. Kedar says that if America continues at its current pace, it will find itself in the same situation as Western Europe in the not-so-distant future. Namely, playing host to self-segregating Muslim enclaves where sharia is king.”

    Since you posted the link, Yam, I assume it reflects your opinion. My response is that if America is on such a course, Israel all the more so. America has had “enclave” problems for decades — some of which have eruvs around them. Ditto for every continent. I responded, because I don’t like America being put in a bad light by outsiders.

  17. The concept of vigilantism is offensive to civilized societies only because there is a Social Contract that says the law protects the rights of people, in exchange for which people surrender some personal autonomy (including the freedom to take the law into their own hands). If the law can’t or won’t protect the rights of people to be free from coercion, death threats, violence, and laws other than those created by the society’s legitimate institutions, the Social Contract is broken and it is reasonable and necessary for people to begin to take the law into their own hands. If the sheriff has been bought, or has himself been terrorized into ineffectiveness by bandits and outlaws, well, that is what posses and vigilance groups are for.

    I am sure that men of righteousness and courage will do whatever is necessary to take care of the sand Nazi threat.

    But will there be enough of them to do so. After all, there are stories of modern feminist family law screwing over men. The Spearhead has catalogued stories of feminism run amok.

    Also, Sharia law requires four male witnesses to testify in order for a rape conviction to be valid. Would Kelly E. Stewart have been convicted had such a rule been in place under the UCMJ?

    When the time comes for people of honor, decency, and integrity to fight the sand Nazis, they may very well fight those whose ancestral roots in Denmark go back for a thousand years, and who converted to Sharia because of real and/or perceived injustices in the family law system.

    It will be messy.

  18. Laura, the threat with Sharia rule will not come from immigrants, but from native-born men who suffered real and/or perceived injustices from the justice system with respect to family law and sexual assault law.

    Currently, there are allegations that Kelly E. Stewart was wrongly convicted of rape. Had the Sharia rule that there be four male witnesses been in effect under the UCMJ, Stewart would have been acquitted. This is a great irony. A soldier who fought the sand Nazis would have had a much lesser chance of a false rape conviction under a sand Nazi court than an American court.

    As we fight the good fight, we must keep in mind how the ideals of the sand Nazis might appeal to our neighbors.

  19. The Spearhead has a lot of articles explaining how Sharia law would appeal to men native to Western cultures.

  20. Botted again. Am I becoming an “unperson”?

    The spam blocker seems to dislike certain words. One of my comments was held up, probably because I used the word “d r u g” in reference to Mexican gangs that were given weapons by the Obama Administration.

  21. Link to Usenet comment thread is here.