The term “no-go zone” is a lot older than that, Chuck. Hell, it’s always used whenever the subject is a place that is blocked off by anybody (religious sects, survivalists addicted to war games, police at a crime scene, a degraded housing project, etc.). Seeking recognition for having been the first to apply it to a Muslim context is like seeking recognition for inventing the use of hot water to make a specific sort of tea.

Haarlem in New York was (justifiably, I believe) called a no-go zone during the ‘70s, prior to gentrification. An Italian friend who’d graduated in ancient Greek and Latin sort of ambled into the neighbourhood during those years and was able to talk with the natives because one of the latter was also fluent in …. Latin.

And, concerning the Dearborn “Christian Persecution:” Let’s suppose for a minute, that a group of Muslims were to appear at a TX or AZ Christian festival wearing T shirts proclaiming their faith in Allah and sharing their beliefs among the crowd. How do you think that would go over? And how do you think the local police would handle it?

And who the hell are you? You appear to be claiming to be Daniel Pipes, but I don’t think that’s likely.

Listen, whoever you are, there are tough neighborhoods all over the world, very much including the U.S., where police will back off to avoid provoking an unnecessary confrontation. Calling those “no-go zones” and suggesting they’re Muslim neighborhoods is either profound stupidity or deliberate distortion in aid of bigotry.

Palkot did an ambigous ride-around with the cops. Funny that the satirical French version of “The Daily Show” had no such problems going to half a dozen or more of these designated areas in France— more akin to U.S. empowerment zones than Muslim-only “no-go zones.”

You and your bigoted lies have been busted big-time. Get over it.

Fox News at one point applied some reportorial muscle to coverage of the zones. On Jan. 12, correspondent Greg Palkot issued this sum-up on Hannity’s program: “In French, they have the very fancy title of ‘zones of urban sensitivity,’ and since the ’90s, there have been something like 750 nationwide. Most of these are in the tough housing projects which often see a lot of riots surrounding Paris and other cities in France. Crime, drug use and unemployment is high in these areas. There are a large number of Muslims. There are six million Muslims in France.”

Palkot said that he had “firsthand experience” a few years back with these areas in a ride-along with French police through a “very bad ghetto” outside of Paris. “We turned one corner. The police in the car saw a group of young men at the other end of the street. They stopped. They backed up, and they rode off. I asked the commanding officer why. He said he couldn’t. I reminded him that he was a French police officer on French soil, and he was saying it was not possible to go forward. He acknowledged that difficult reality,” said Palkot.

http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/dearborn-no-go-zone-where-islam-rules-and-christians-are-stoned

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_urban_zone

In January 2015, after the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Fox News labeled the SUZ as “no-go zone”.⁵ Some French media agencies denied these claims.⁶⁷

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2006/11/the-751-no-go-zones-of-france

Jan. 17, 2015 update: Research into the term no-go zones referring to Muslim habitations in Western Europe done by the pseudonymous Yoel Natan finds its earliest use to be on my website, DanielPipes.org: An Australia resident who calls himself “fed up” wrote on March 22, 2006, that “In Sydney, Australia, we have large areas of our city that are deemed no-go zones.”

The next use was by the Norwegian analyst who calls himself Fjordman, on July 13, 2006, who defined “Muslim no-go zones” as places “where anything representing a Western institution (post office truck, firemen, even mail order delivery firms) was routinely ambushed with Molotov cocktails.”

Then came my use of the term on November 14, 2006.

Some say that Fux Noise research is out-sourced to the Whore of Babble-On Palin and her spawn.

Wow. Some sort of edict must have come down from the suits that the shows that pimped this crap all have to apologize individually, no? I don’t recall ever seeing this many different hosts delivering a correction on the same subject.

So…. I wonder if that’s going to apply to Hannity on Monday? Did any of the other primetime people promote the same lie, and will they have to apologize?

Anna Kooiman Apologizes For Not Showing Correct 'No-Go Zones'