Conservative MP Paul Scully has said that parts of London and Birmingham have become ‘no-go areas,’ causing national uproar and debate after an interview with BBC London.
“[I]f you look at parts of Tower Hamlets, for example, where there are no-go areas, parts of Birmingham Sparkhill, where there are no-go areas, mainly because of doctrine, mainly because of people using, abusing in many ways, their religion to… because it is not the doctrine of Islam, to espouse what some of these people are saying. That, I think, is the concern that needs to be addressed,” Scully said.
His comments came after Conservative MP and former deputy party chairman Lee Anderson had the Parliamentary Whip removed (i.e. he no longer a Conservative Party MP) for comments he made about Islamists in London and their relationship with Mayor Sadiq Khan.
“I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan and they’ve got control of London… He’s actually given our capital city away to his mates,” Anderson said.
“No-go zones” are a predominantly a phenomenon in European nations that have experienced significant migration from Muslim and Arab nations.
Last year, a London borough council was forced to cancel a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony due to Muslim anger at the event. In January, a large group of London Muslims attacked and beat three Jewish people. In Denmark, authorities have resorted to demolishing Muslim migrant ghettos in a last-ditch effort to stop the spread of Islamic radicalism.
