ISLAMIC NO GO ZONE IN INDIA
ISLAMIC NO GO ZONE IN INDIA
Police must erase Islamic No-Go zonesacross in India: by Ram Ohri
TIME WE DEBATE THIS ISSUE WHICH THE OPPOSITION AND
INDIA TV NEWS CHANNEL DO NOT WANT THIS ISSUE TO BE DEBATED :
Does the breakout of jihadi violence accompanied by multiple bomb blasts across
several districts of West Bengal convey any message to all ranks of Indian Police?
Yes, it does. But only if we are willing to learn, grow, and act, and act fast.
The first lesson which police officers must learn is that they should refuse to buckle
under the pressure of politicians in law enforcement and stand their ground firmly,
though politely. The primary duty of the police is to enforce the law and protect the lives
and property of citizens. Policemen must continue to perform their duties impartially in a
dignified manner. In the post-independence era the malaise of political interference in law
enforcement has gathered substantial pace with disastrous consequences for national
security and safety of peace loving citizens.
It has come to be recognized globally that the ongoing jihad raging from the USA to the
Philippines against civil society offers a formidable challenge for the police leadership.
The global experience is that the growth of jihadi militancy in any State or area, is
invariably preceded by certain tell-tale marks the most important among which is the
growth of pockets of “No-Go” areas. The experience of police forces in European
countries tells us that these pockets gradually develop into extensive ‘No-Go’ Zones
where the entry of police is resisted by rowdy gangs of criminals and anti-national goons.
This important development in any country, city or town signifies the growth of
lawlessness to subvert governance which must be dealt with effectively by the police.
 Over a period of time a number of ‘No-Go’ zones were created in West Bengal by
the illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh duly aided by hundreds of ISI-embedded
spy-modules nurtured by the radical outfits operating from Bangladesh like
Jamaat- e- Islami Bangladesh , Chhatra Shibir, Jamat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh, etc.
There is no denying the fact that the complexities created by the partisan politics of
West Bengal have added grist to the mill of the jihadi explosion in that State. But the fact
remains that there has been a massive increase in ‘no-go’ areas across West Bengal due
to the collapse of police patrolling—mostly due to political interference. There are hundreds
of villages where the writ of the State government does not run and the police are unable to
enter due to fear of violent resistance by anti-national groups aided by political dadas.
In fact, the no-go zones have become a common feature of Kolkata’s political universe.
A classic example of the cult of no-go zones conquering Kolkata is that the fundamentalist
Mullahs have made Kolkata a “no-entry metropolis” for Taslima Nasreen and many other
persons disliked by radical Muslims.
In a seminally researched article published in The New Media Journal on 29 January 2013,
the well-known analyst Soeren Kern had highlighted that Islamic extremists were stepping
up the creation of “no-go” areas in several European cities that are off-limits to non-Muslims
and law enforcement officers. Many “no-go” zones are functioning as microstates
governed by Sharia. The governments of several countries have lost control in
‘no-go’ zones. In many instances the affected countries are unable to provide even basic
public services such as police, fire fighting and ambulances for carrying the ill and the injured.
The “no-go” areas are the logical consequences of the growth of Islamic ghettos and
the inability of police to patrol those areas due to the organised resistance offered by mobsters,
many of whom are armed with rocks, Molotov cocktails and other throw-able missiles.
 For example, in the U.K, a radical group called Muslims Against the Crusades has
launched a campaign to turn 12 British cities, including the national capital,
often called “Londonistan” into independent Islamic states. They hope that soon the
so-called Islamic Emirates would function as an autonomous group of Muslim-dominated
enclaves ruled Sharia—functioning virtually as a State within a state, but entirely
outside the British law.
Soeren Kern points out that there is a planned sinister plot to undermine the authority
of police in many cities of the U.K. The so-called Islamic Emirates Project has named
the cities of Birmingham, Bradford, Derby, Dewsbury, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Luton,
Manchester, Sheffield, as well as the Waltham Forest area in northeast London and
Tower Hamlets in East London as territories marked for enforcing the Sharia rule.
For instance, in the Tower Hamlets area of East London (also called the Islamic
Republic of Tower Hamlets) extremist Muslim preachers of the enclave called the
Taliban Tower Hamlets often issue death threats to women who refuse to wear veils.
Neighbourhood streets have been plastered with posters declaring “You are entering a
Sharia controlled zone: Islamic rules enforced.” And street advertising deemed offensive o
Muslims is regularly vandalized or blacked out with spray paint.
In the Finnsbury Park area of Luton, groups of Muslims have been allegedly accused of “
ethnic cleansing” the locality by harassing non-Muslims to the point that many of them move
out of Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods. Kern further draws attention to Leytonstone of
east London, where a known Muslim extremist Abu Izzadeen publicly heckled the former
Home Secretary, John Reid, by sholuting : “How dare you come to a Muslim area.”
 According to media reports a similar situation exists in the Indian State of West Bengal
where the police are unable to carry out regular patrolling and the writ of the state
government no longer runs. Prima facie, the collapse of police patrolling in many districts
has proved to be the Achilles’ heel of the West Bengal Police.To return to the plight of Europe,
most citizens of France fell terribly scared because large areas of Muslim neighbourhoods
are now considered “no-go” zones by the French police.
Furthermore, Kern claims that at last count, there were 751 sensitive ‘Urban Zones’
(Zones Urbaines Sensibles, ZUS). A complete list of the ZUS can be found on a French
government website, complete with satellite maps and precise street demarcations.
On a rough count, an estimated five million Muslims live in the ZUS, parts of France over
which the government has lost control, avers Soeren Kern in his well- researched article.
In Brussels, the capital of Belgium, Brussels (having 20% Muslim population), several
immigrant neighbourhoods have become “no-go” zones for police officers who are frequently
pelted with rocks by unruly Muslim youth. In the Kuregem district of Brussels, which often looks
like an urban war zone, the police are forced to patrol the area with two detachments of police cars:
one car to carry out patrolling and another car to prevent the first car from being attacked.
Such is the fear of rowdy Muslim backlash that in the Muslim-dominated Molenbeek district of
Brussels, police officers have been ordered not to drink coffee or eat a sandwich in public
during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
In Germany, Chief Police Commissioner, Bernhard Witthaut, in an August 1 interview with
the newspaper Der Westen, revealed that Muslims are imposing “no-go” zones across Germany
at an alarming rate. In Italy, Muslims have been commandeering the PiazzaVenezia in Rome
for public prayers. In Bologna, Jihadis have repeatedly threatened to bomb the San Petronio
because it contains a 600-year-old fresco inspired by Dante’s Inferno which depicts Mohammed
being tormented in hell.
 In the Netherlands, a Dutch court ordered the government to release to the public a politically
incorrect list of 40 “no-go” zones in Holland. The top five neighbourhoods converted into
problem neighbourhoods are in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. The Kolenkit area in
Amsterdam is the number one Muslim “problem district” in the country, writes Soeren.
The next three districts are in Rotterdam–Pendrecht, het Oude Noorden and Bloemhof.
The Ondiep district in Utrecht is in the fifth position. Similarly in Sweden, which has some of
the most liberal immigration laws in Europe, large swaths of the southern city of Malmö – which
is more than 25% Muslim – have become “no-go” zones for non-Muslims and policemen.
The research of Kern has to be read and understood by the officers of Indian Police in the context of
what has happened in West Bengal and what might happen in the coming years or months, in several
other parts of India. Equally important for them is to read more about the rising crescendo of
footfalls of the soldiers of IS. It is time that Indian police officers became familiar with what has
been happening in large swathes of Iraq and Syria, now called IS Caliphate.
Not many of them know that Abu Bakr Naji is the ideologue of al Baghdadi’s caliphate and
that his infamous book, The Management of Savagery, has become the war Manual of storm-
troopers of Islamic caliphate. The book was published online in 2004. It was translated into
English in 2006 by William Mc Cants, who is a Fellow at the West Point Combating Terror Center.
The core emphasis of Naji is on creating areas of political chaos by recourse to unremitting
savagery for acquiring territorial control in selected areas as a prelude to the birth of an
Islamic state. And al-Baghdadi has been ruthlessly implementing the guidelines enunciated
by Naji in his tome, The Management of Savagery.
 Abu Bakr Naji envisions the coming phase of Jihad as the most critical period through which
the Islamic Ummah will have to pass. He argues that due to the savagery unleashed by jihadis
a number of regions will plunge into chaos because of the weakening of the governmental
authority. At that stage a chaotic enclave ruled by Jihadis can be created. The jihadi movement
should focus on strengthening the fighting spirit and self-confidence of Muslims. He directs that
a concerted attempt should be made to draw the U.S. into direct military confrontation so that
Americans realize that they are too weak and located too far away to prevent the emergence of
zones of savagery and chaos.
Second, Naji emphasises that the recruitment to the jihadi movement should be boosted by
carrying out spectacular and ‘‘dazzling’’ attacks loaded with raw savagery against the United
States and other kaffir nations for promoting popular resentment against the U.S. and other
nations ruled by ‘kuffar’ or non-believers.
Additionally Naji has recommend a multi-pronged jihadi strategy for destroying governmental
control in weak regimes in the Islamic world. The extensive use of savagery will be a continuation
of the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon by Jihadis, describing it as a continuation of
what al-Qaida had started with their East African bombings in 1998 and the 9/11 attack.
 Abu Bakr Naji thinks that territorial Islamic enclaves (i.e. no-go zones) can be created
and even defended if the jihadi movement is able to raise a strong fighting army. In his labored
thesis, he anticipates the problems likely to be created by the menace of unremitting aerial
attacks by the enemy but is hopeful about devising a deterrent strategy against such air attacks.
He advocates repeated terrorist attacks on select targets, even if they take place a long time after
the enemy attack. That will establish the principle of the enemy being made to ‘pay the price’
by retaliatory actions by jihadi groups. Integral parts of his strategic vision are Naji’s strategies for
educating and training new jihadi cadres. In fact, when listing the key requirements for ‘‘managing
savagery’’ in areas where jihadis gain territorial control, he specifically emphasises the aim of
‘‘raising the level of self-belief and combat efficiency during the training of the youth in the region
of savagery by establishing a fighting society at all levels.”
Furthermore, according to Naji, the best jihadi training takes place on the battlefield so that jihad
can be waged across the globe. He advocates the training of the youth in specific geographical
zones, and the formation of ‘‘a fighting society’’ in every zone. He underlines the importance of
creating small enclaves for ‘vexatious and exhausting operations’ against the enemy.
Naji also addresses the needs for training cadres in non-military functions, especially
in managerial skills: ‘‘We will mix with hundreds of thousands of people and they will require
the administration of regions by jihadi soldiers because the role of governments is bound to
diminish in ‘no-go’ enclaves due to chaos.
 A close analysis of the terrorist activities in West Bengal and the spectacle of multiple
bomb blasts staged by active cells of Al Qaeda underlines the failure of police effectiveness
in the State. The connection of jihadi cells with the Bangladesh-based spies of the
Jamat-ul-MujahideenBangladesh further highlights the failure of intelligence agencies as well.
The time has come for the Indian police to uproot and patrol the menace of ‘no-go’ zones
rapidly proliferating across the country.
Article Summary
Article Title
Police must erase Islamic No-Go zones across India
Author
Ram Ohri
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