Day: November 21, 2017

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

It wasn’t very long ago that French authorities and others in Europe
were indignantly denying that there were any “No Go Zones.” The postal
workers of Chronopost cannot afford the luxury of political correctness.

“French Postal Service Refuses to Deliver to Migrant ‘No Go Zone’ Citing ‘Danger to Staff,’” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, November 20, 2017:

French courier Chronopost has announced that it will not
deliver any packages to the heavily migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis
suburb on the outskirts of Paris because the area is too dangerous.

The company announced the measures last week saying that residents of
the Paris suburb will have to travel to pick up locations to get their
packages. They said that the danger to their delivery drivers was simply
too high in the area which has been described as a no-go zone, radio
broadcaster France Info reports.

Though Chronopost has refused to deliver to certain neighbourhoods it
has deemed to be too dangerous since last year, this is the first time
an entire district has been designated as off-limits.

Last year, 51 of its delivery drivers were attacked while doing their
rounds. The number of violent robberies in the Île-de-France region,
where Seine-Saint-Denis is located, has risen by 40 per cent in the last
two years alone. Across France, the number has increased by 60 per
cent.

Laurent Russie, Communist Party mayor of Seine-Saint-Denis, expressed outrage
at the company’s decision: “It is totally abnormal that a part of the
city so small is no longer delivered to by what I continue to consider
as a public service.”

Chronopost is a subsidiary of La Poste, which is 73.7 per cent owned by the French government.

“The disappearance of public services leads to insecurity,” Russie added.

Postal workers are not the only ones who have been attacked in the troubled Paris suburbs.  Earlier this year, police were attacked in the area during riots following allegations that officers sexually assaulted a local man with a truncheon.

In July, around 900 cars were burned
and one officer severely attacked in the area during a visit by U.S.
President Donald Trump who attended the annual Bastille Day
celebrations.

Seine-Saint-Denis has also been tied to radical Islamism and Islamic
terrorism. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron admitted that the
Paris suburbs had become havens for Islamism and vowed to tackle the
issue.

“Radicalisation has taken hold because the French Republic has given up,”  Macron said and added:
“And we allowed, in too many cities, too many districts,
representatives of a distortion of a religion who are full of hate and
disenfranchisement to provide solutions that the Republic no longer
gives.”

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republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Holding prayers in the street is not the result of mosque shortages.
Throughout the history of Christianity, Christians established house
churches when they didn’t have a church to pray in — that is, they would
just go to someone’s house and hold services there. There were no
ostentatious prayers in the street. These street prayers are actually a
confrontation and a statement: the Muslims in Clichy-la-Garenne are
asserting their supremacy, implicitly demanding that everyone else who
wants to pass along the street has to accommodate them. This is a
manifestation of the old Islamic dictum that “Islam must dominate and
not be dominated.” Consequently, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb
is entirely correct to try to stop this. It is inevitable that
eventually the leaders of all Western countries are going to have to
decide whether they’re going to defend their own laws and culture, or
whether they’re going to bow to Islamic norms and practices one by one
until finally they are Sharia states. This confrontation is coming, and
cannot be avoided.

“France Seeks To Ban Muslim Street Prayers In Paris After Clashes,” by Jacob Bojesson, Daily Caller, November 19, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):

Muslims won’t be allowed to hold mass prayers on the
streets of a Paris suburb where protestors and worshippers have clashed
in recent weeks, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday.

Weekly street prayers have taken place in the suburb of
Clichy-la-Garenne every Friday since the local mosque was shut down by
authorities in the spring. Local politicians and protestors have tried
to stop the street prayers and the national government is ready to take
action.

“They will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying,” Collomb told Franceinfo in an interview published Sunday. “We will make sure we resolve this conflict in the next few weeks.”

Collomb emphasized that “Muslims must have a place of worship to
pray” while acknowledging that the current solution doesn’t work….