No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You by Raheem Kassam

Author:Raheem Kassam [Kassam, Raheem]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781621576945
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2017-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

Houses of worship are not the only buildings in the area that are being influenced by these new residents. The restaurants in the area are all halal, and almost all the clothing stores sell hijabs, niqabs, and traditional Islamic menswear.

Even graffiti is influenced by the shifting demographics in the area. “No Borders” is scrawled across walls as well as stenciled signs declaring, “Liberation not Deportation,” and urging locals to “Resist Immigration Raids.”

The long-standing street market that runs the one-third mile stretch between Vallance Road and the Blind Beggar pub is now an almost entirely South Asian affair. While the city’s crony capitalistic excess looms in the backdrop—exemplified by London’s newborn, modernist, glass and steel skyscrapers—men and women of Pakistani, Bengali, Indian, and other Asian descent shuffle up and down the street picking up ingredients for dinner, stopping to chat, and bagging some bargains from the street stalls selling jewelry and clothing for unbelievably low prices.

On the surface, this area seems perfectly pleasant. But behind the scenes, local Islamic bookshops sell books making the Quranic case for polygamy and encouraging women to wear the niqab. In fact, if you pay attention to the political material in the area, you will notice a pattern tying into other Muslim-dominated areas in Europe. “How can we fight for socialism?” reads a poster wrapped around a lamppost. “Gaza Needs Our Voices Now,” reads a t-shirt hanging in the window of a local clothing store, with a web link to an anti-Israel page promoting links to anti-Semitic authors, websites, and other resources.

The marker-pen-scrawled graffiti on the outside of Booth House, which was named for the Salvation Army founder William Booth, reveals something about the local mindset. For whatever reason, a local rumor pervades that Booth was a gay drug taker. Scribbled on some outdoor signage are the following sentences: “F**k Booth House,” “0207 123 C**T,” “William Booth was an opium addicted homosexual.” What I found particularly upsetting about these sentences wasn’t that they lacked a typical dry, British wit, but that they conveyed an irrational anger typical of those who flirt with radicalism.

While reporting the recent influx of mosques in Britain, the Gatestone Institute also pointed out an interesting development in Birmingham: “In Birmingham, the second-largest British city, where many jihadists live and orchestrate their attacks, an Islamic minaret dominates the sky. There are petitions to allow British mosques to call the Islamic faithful to prayer on loudspeakers three times a day.” Though the minaret and petition are unsettling, what is most disturbing about Birmingham is the fact that Sparkbrook, an inner-city area in Southeast Birmingham, is quickly becoming known as Britain’s jihadist capital.

Freelance journalist Patrick Christys—whose reporting was featured in the Daily Mirror newspaper shortly after the Westminster Bridge attack—provided an exclusive report for the purposes of this book after visiting Sparkbrook:

Before he became Prime Minister, David Cameron went to visit Balsall Heath, a deprived, Muslim-dominated area just south of Birmingham City Centre. During that 2007 trip he stayed with a man called Abdullah Rehman

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