• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    This is a touchy situation. In England, like in France, there’s been increasing cases of acts of armed aggression, violence and terrorism from extremist Islamist groups. There is a lot of Islamic radicalization happening in Muslim communities.

    It’s a real concern for public safety and people have grown tired of living in fear of the next attack.

    There were neighborhoods in cities in both of these countries that if you’re a non Muslim or if you don’t follow the strict rules like women wearing headscarves, you get harassed and attacked.

    This anger wasn’t born just out of thin air or only racism.

    However, the root cause for this radicalization comes from two things: the frustration from Muslims facing discrimination in the UK and France and colonialism and conflicts in Muslim countries where the UK and France are involved. When Muslims get treated differently at school, face racism, can’t find jobs are their needs are not being met, you get frustration and anger and it gets exploited by bad influences.

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      2 months ago

      There were neighborhoods in cities in both of these countries that if you’re a non Muslim or if you don’t follow the strict rules like women wearing headscarves, you get harassed and attacked.

      Name the cities and neighborhoods or you’re lying. It’s possible someone mislead you, but if you repeat it without verification you’re still lying.

      This is like the thing conservatives said about “cities burning to the ground” because of BLM. Whenever you looked into it, it was some rando not associated with any group. Or possibly a right-wing agitator.

      Stop repeating the game of telephone. You can literally go to Saudi Arabia without wearing a headscarf. You think Paris is going to be stricter?

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        2 months ago

        Don’t know specifically about the UK, but in France there are definitely no go areas in Paris, Marseille and Montpellier. You can look them up. Paris has the 19e arrondissement, Marseille has the 16e for example.

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            2 months ago

            When’s the last time you actually went to France? Or spoken with someone who lives there?

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                2 months ago

                My friend. I go to France every year. I usually land in Marseille to go visit my in laws.

                Two years ago I took a wrong turn and ended up in a car jacking situation. My GPS told me to go through some apartment building parking at night. There were a couple of watchers who gave a signal to a group who had laid down grocery carts up make a barrage. I had to gun it to go around before they closed it. And when I reached the exit of the parking just on the other side, we got cut off by a black Mercedes that blocked the exit. I had to drive over a curb as the group was surrounding our car.

                I fucking experienced it.

                My in-laws tell me about how they’re scared to go out at night in their town in Valence.

                Friends living near Marseille who worked there specifically told us not to visit without them as guides or else it would be too dangerous.

                My co workers are practically all French expats from Paris who moved to Quebec in the past 5-10 years and they’ve told me themselves how much of a shit show it has become.

                So you can believe what you want. But I’ve actually been there and know people from there and what I’m saying is from their accounts. Not from some news channel in the US.

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                  2 months ago

                  You were talking about “no go zones” where women are supposedly attacked for not covering their heads in Paris. Now you’re describing some random attempted robbery in Marseille. Those are 100% not the same, unless the carjackers had an ISIS flag or something.

                  I think you need therapy for PTSD or something. Your experience might be affecting your judgement.

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                    2 months ago

                    I’m still talking about those zones.

                    They were Muslims. There were a couple of girls in the group at the barrage that had the full garb. They yelled at each other in Arabic.

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      2 months ago

      There were neighborhoods in cities in both of these countries that if you’re a non Muslim or if you don’t follow the strict rules like women wearing headscarves, you get harassed and attacked.

      No there isn’t. This is just daily mail nonsense.

      Source: I’m visibly gay and live in one of these famous “no go areas”

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        2 months ago

        Ok well maybe in the UK. But in France I know for a fact there are neighborhoods where even the police don’t go anymore because it’s too dangerous.

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            2 months ago

            I answered that same question to another user on this same comment.

            There are a few arrondissement in Paris, Marseille and Montpellier among others that you just don’t want to go there because they’re dangerous. Especially at night.

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      2 months ago

      It’s thin air and racism. To argue other than that is ignorance and racism. Attacking innocent people no matter what you think a select few from their community do is racism.