Islam: The World’s Ghetto

In modern societies there have always been pockets within these societies where crime, fear, and distrust run rampant. Ghettos were first designed to segregate Jews from other areas of European cities. In more modern times it has become a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.

As a result of these conditions, fear is a welcomed tool used by both the authorities and those who prey on the innocent. In the United States the police encounter resistance or no cooperation at all when investigating crimes in these ghettos because of the fear of those who live there and the threat of reprisals by those who commit the crimes. The people within these neighborhoods become prisoners within their own homes and the only way to survive is to remain silent.
In Mexico, the drug cartels have harvested fear to a point where even the free press is too afraid to speak out against their actions. Their communities are enslaved by fear and death and they can only look to communities in the United States and Europe and dream of how it is to live in relative peace.

Masters of this tactic, those even deadlier than the drug cartels of Mexico or the gangs in US ghettos are those within the Islamic faith who have hijacked their mosks and preach hate and violence under the threat of death and retaliation to anyone who would dare speak out. Violence has become synonymous with Islam. Across the globe, Islamic rebels, terrorist, and Jihadist have forced the believers of Islam to cower in their homes for fear that if they speak against these actions that they too will be the focus of this violence. Islam has become the largest ghetto the world has seen. The violence is world wide. Beheadings, burnings, and dismemberments are common place in many Islamic states. Torture, death, and indiscriminant violence is the tactic of those holding the reigns of Islam and the “peaceful’ believers of Islam look at the world just they do from the ghettos of Mexico and the US. They are aware that a peaceful existence exist, they just don’t believe that that existence is meant for them.

There are over a Billion believers of Islam in the world yet the Islamic world can’t produce a global condemnation of the violence being done in the name of their faith. We see global condemnation of issues that the gangs, thugs, terrorist, and anarchist of Islam have earmarked as being wrong, like the cartoons that depict Muhammad, a prophet of the Islamic religion in a distasteful way, but they can’t seem to condemn the beheadings, torture, and violence being done against women, children and innocent people around the world. They have even allowed these same violent men to define who is and who isn’t innocent.

The Islamic world is a ghetto, riddled with violence and fear. The good people of these communities have lost their ability to speak out. They have cowered into the dark corners of blame and justification allowing this mayhem to continue and there does not seem to be an end in sight.

In the days of old, ghettos were walled off, separated from other parts of society. The term, ‘out of sight out of mind’ was common place…in today’s global economy coupled the desire in the west to unite the world under the banner of humanity and the media’s desire to show all things violent we have no means of separating ourselves from this issue and they will not allow us to ignore it.

To the people of Islam I have this to say:

Hiding in the ghetto will only bring a temporary peace…and what is peace if it is enforced by fear?

Michael DiBartolo