A Georgetown University professor, himself a Muslim and a child of Indian and East Pakistani parents, has written an upcoming book entitled Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain. In it, Ed Husain reveals the results of a study he made among Muslims in the UK by “turning up unannounced to the communal Friday prayers at the central mosque in cities across the country.”
His findings are not pretty.
Husain says that Islam in Britain is dominated by the ultra-orthodox sect of the Deobandis, the group that founded the Taliban in Afghanistan. In Britain, they control half of the country’s mosques. Under their influence and that of another fundamentalist sect called the Tablighi Jamaat, Muslim Britain has carved out a separate society in whole towns and cities where white Britons are afraid to enter.
Husain recounts conversations with residents, both Muslim and white, who told him there were “no-go” zones throughout the country that are unsafe for whites. One such place is Whalley Range, a suburb of Blackburn in northern England, which has the highest Muslim population outside of London. According to the Daily Mail:
A group of white men told him they are scared to go into ‘no-go areas’ in the town, such as Whalley Range, with one man saying a gang of ‘Asian’ teenagers repeatedly ‘jumped’ his 12-year-old son. They told Ed the boy was ‘battered him in broad daylight…for being white. . . . If we go to Whalley Range at night-time, we’re guaranteed to get jumped. We won’t walk out of it. We won’t walk to the other end of the street.’ They also claimed the council for Blackburn with Darwen [the official name of the municipality] would ‘threaten you with eviction’ for flying the English flag’ and called it ‘racist.’
These no-go areas are essentially governed, says Husain, according to de-facto Sharia law, where women are kept systematically suppressed, sometimes forbidden to leave their homes without their husbands’ permission. Mosques proliferate, he says, and are found “on almost every corner,” sometimes in private homes. In one mosque in Didsbury, which had once been a church, he reports a “Sharia Department” has been formed, to handle divorces, marriages, and any other issues that Muslims want decided by sharia.
In nearby Bradford, shocked at seeing so few whites on the street, Husain asked a Muslim cabdriver where they were. The cabbie replied that the white people had “gone with the wind.”
For more, see the Daily Mail.