From My Perspective - - -

Europe has been very accommodating for the “new” and unorthodox over the years. However, the policy of multiculturalism that has been allowed for several years may be ready to bite them. A publication – The Berean Call – has issued a very troubling report entitled: “The Rise Of Islamic "No Go" Zones.” The Hudson Institute has stated the following: “Three and a half years ago, one of the Church of England's most senior bishops…warned that Islamic extremists had created "no-go" areas across Britain too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter. His politically incorrect concern sparked a firestorm of denial and criticism. Well, the evidence of how multiculturalism "has gone wrong" is in. Soeren Kern at the Hudson Institute documented the proliferation of such no-go zones throughout Europe - autonomous Islamic "microstates" under Sharia rule (having rejected their host countries' legal systems), where non-Muslims must either conform to the cultural, legal, and religious norms of fundamentalist Islam or expect to be greeted with violence…”

In nations where permissiveness and promiscuity have been allowed to run amuck, it should have been obvious for those who have the ability to think and the courage of conscience to address the cultural descent that was occurring, that if they failed to step forward and confront such choices – something at sometime would arise and fill the vacuum. Since no one stepped forward, the following is what is occurring: “In Britain, where there are already as many as eighty-five Sharia courts in operation, an Islamist group called Muslims Against the Crusades has launched an ambitious campaign to turn twelve British cities into independent Islamic states, including Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester…In the Tower Hamlets in East London - or as the Muslims there refer to it, "the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets" – imams…issue death threats to unveiled women, and gays are attacked by gangs of young Muslim men. The neighborhood has been littered with leaflets announcing, "You are entering a Sharia controlled zone. Islamic rules enforced…"

“In France, there are an astonishing 751 so-called Sensitive Urban Zones (ZUS). "Sensitive" indeed: the nature of the ZUS, and chaos like the nightly burning of cars in Paris, are topics that the French media largely downplay to avoid accusations of racism or Islamophobia…The Dutch government has released a list of forty "no-go" zones in the Netherlands. In Brussels, Belgium, which is twenty percent Muslim, police have to patrol with two police cars, to watch each other's back. In Sweden, which an imam there has labeled "the best Islamic state," whole patches of the city of Malmö…are no-go zones. There and in Gothenburg, Muslim teenagers have been burning cars, attacking emergency services, throwing stones at patrolling officers and temporarily blinding them with green lasers…The Conclusion drawn is: “These dangerous enclaves are…the byproduct of decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged Muslim immigrants to create parallel societies and remain segregated rather than become integrated into their European host nations…what the Islamic supremacists want is not merely a place at the table…but their own separate table, utterly distinct from the man-made laws of infidels.”

What awaits the United States and the “church”? The direction of both have been downward and the influence of both has been greatly diminished. Why has this occurred? It may have something to do with the choices people make. The Lord issued choices to His people in Deuteronomy 11:26-28 – “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.” The words are plain and the choice should be obvious. Our culture has chosen permissiveness and promiscuity – the end result being God’s curse rather than His blessing. This is similar to the challenge and choice in Joshua 24:14-15, “…fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River. or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell...as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord…” The choice to be made is obvious! Choose wisely and correctly!  Consider these things with me!