Author: National Review Online
Publication: Nojihad.com
Date:
We've been hearing a lot about no-go
areas in Iraq. Well, just to put the matter into perspective, here
is some data on no-go areas in France. (I'm obliged to Jerry Pournelle
for pointing me to this.)
In Le Figaro daily dated Feb 1,
2002, Lucienne Bui Trong, a criminologist working for the French
government's Renseignements Generaux (General Intelligence - a mix
of FBI and secret service), complains that the survey system she
had created for accurately denumbering the Muslim no-go zones was
dismantled by the government. She wrote: 'From 106 hot points in
1991, we went to 818 sensitive areas in 1999. That's for the whole
country. These data were not politically correct.' Since she comes
from a Vietnamese background, Ms. Bui Trong cannot be suspected of
racism, of course, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to start
this survey in the first place.
The term she uses, 'sensitive area,'
is the PC euphemism for these places where anything representing
a Western institution (post office truck, firemen, even mail order
delivery firms, and of course cops) is routinely ambushed with Molotov
cocktails, and where war weapons imported from the Muslim part of
Yugoslavia are routinely found.
The number 818 is from 2002. I'd
go out on a limb and venture that it hasn't decreased in two years.
Note the French govt's response
to these unpleasant statistics - they stopped collecting the statistics!
