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The image of Christmas decorations downtown
can be deceiving
Because on this side of the city everything is organized and clean
There are even police around
But only a few kilometers away
In another area, almost considered ex-territory
the Muslim Sharia laws are applied and the police hardly ever enter there
It is known that Europe has become the most
preferred continent by tens of millions of Muslims in the last few decades
Refugees and work immigrants from Muslim countries
are being massively absorbed in Europe
which may have solved the lack of working hands
but at the same time created ghettos of Muslims with separatism, crime, and religious extremism
"Here, look, they ran away. Everyone here is a mafia-naire (wannabe mafia)"
"Do people walk around with weapons?" "Yes, with weapons"
"Like in Iraq?"
"Stop telling us to go home. Where should we return to? We were born here.
France is our country." "So respect it!"
"We are going to destroy these sons of *** police"
In more and more countries in Europe there are fears of immigrant riots
The most massive riots so far
started from a police chase in an immigrant neighborhood
in a small town near Paris
and ended with the death of two teenagers,
triggering what was called
the "Immigrant Intifada of fall 2005"
It has spread throughout France and other immigrant neighborhoods in Europe
"it's a cancer. They're barbarians"
"I hope we are not in for a civil war."
This was just an illustration of the terrifying scenario
of many Europeans.
"The cops attacked the mosque!!"
"There are extremists who want to control the immigrant population.
One may call it, control through religion."
You are invited on a journey through Classic Europe
where the Muslim immigrant anger has erupted
in places where the fear from similar riots
led to real daily conflict, between societies and cultures,
between East and West.
"Clear the way!
"I told you, Zvi. This time you are from Israel.
Next time, you cannot come here."
What did you think at that very moment? The second you fired the gun?
"That it was the right thing to do."
This is what you call Palestinian Hebron
This one is red Jordanian
This one is called classic Arafat.
"If you approach as an alien, they will start to ask questions.
These groups are very suspicious (with foreigners)"
There's no need in trying to exaggerate trying to look Arabic
it's enough to wear it under the coat, hat
I'm willing to change my identity for a little bit
"Are you gonna shave?" Let's leave it.
It can help us
I do not come out of fear. I say:
"Let's not fear the Muslims in Europe,
let's check their story,
let's listen.
The real question is, is there really new Islam around here?
It lives there, it has its own agenda.
It's different, it creates a whole new generation.
Question is should I wear this hat?
Does this look too Arabic?
I can't be an undercover Arab This isn't Gaza
Here, look... It's Europe!
Chapter 1: Isolationism
Malmo, Sweden
Don't forget to start to speak Arabic here.
Our first stop is the city Malmo in Sweden
We arrived in the middle of December, it's cold
0 degrees (celcius)
"There's not a single place in Europe that I haven't been to
but Sweden is the best."
In the last decade, third 3rd-largest port city of Sweden
has become a typical immigrant neighborhood.
Today, every 5th citizen here in Malmo is Muslim
That fact has drastically changed this city
This professional school which is located in the center of the city
is maybe the best example of change in Malmo
"Why aren't you in class?" 5:42 "What?"
"Why?"
"Do you have proof of citizenship?" "Leave me alone, it's not your business"
"Are you even a student at this school?"
"it's none of your business. Leave me alone."
"Where are you originally from?" "I am a Palestinian, from Haifa (in Israel)"
From Haifa you immigrated to Lebanon. And then to here?
"Yes"
Where in Lebanon? "Shatila"
"I always say that I am a Palestinian Muslim."
Do you have a Swedish ID?
"Yes, but I don't identify myself by it"
In your neighborhood, do you and the Swedish live in separate parts?
"We don't have Swedish in our neighborhoods." "Where we live, everyone is Arab"
Why? "Because. That's the way it is."
What's the name of your neighborhood? "Rozen Gard"
Only Arabs there? "Yes, you will not find a single Swede there"
And what language does everyone speak? "Only Arabic"
It's better that they don't identify us as Israelis.
The students tell us no one enters Rozen Gard
without an escort from someone who lives there
"So, what do you say?"
Surprisingly, one of the students is asking his parents' permission to escort us in the neighborhood.
"Can we come within the hour?"
Yalla. We're going to your house? "Yes, you're invited"
And what about the teacher? What should we tell her?
"Leave her alone. I'll tell her I was sick.
Besides, it's not every day we get to give a tour.
It's only one class, can't be missing that much."
So, let's go? "Yeah, let's go"
"When someone asks you: 'Where are you from?'
And you answer them: 'Rozen Gard' he will be afraid of you.
I swear, they'll be afraid of you.
He will have already heard that's 'the place of cannibals and monsters.'
It's better for us if you stop here and we take the stairs.
Stop here."
Rozen Gard Neighborhood Malmo
"When you walk around here with people you always need to be alert. Do you understand?
You never really feel safe, because he who you consider your friend
is the likely the one screw you over.
Arabs are always destroying this place.
They come at night, smoke nargila (hookah)
Throw here their garbage and leave."
"Hey Stop filming"
Sorry?
"Filming not allowed"
What did he say? "He said: 'don't film'"
Ah, ok.
Why, is he wanted? "Yes, he's wanted by the police."
Here, in Rozen Gard when someone foreign enters
he doesn't dare to look you in the eyes
If he looks towards someone,
they will say to him: 'Why are you looking at me like that?'
they'll beat him up and run away.
Once they caught someone here, and they cut his ear,
beat his car and told him: 'alright, get outta here'
He'll never come here again."
This young man has lived here about one year, Anwar Mathil Al Sayef
already knows the neighborhood well.
Sees everyone, hears everything.
Here there are Arabic stores, here you can do a praying ritual."
"I told the Swedes that my son doesn't have permission to come to the country.
We all got it, and only he did not get it."
What is he talking about? Didn't have what? Identification?
"My family and I have lived here for 5 years. We all got residency."
And for him they didn't give residency? "No"
Why? "I don't know" What is the reason?
"This is not what we're here to discuss." "Cousin, they came here
to see the difference between our lives in Iraq and Sweden,
how our life is here, how our situation is. Understand?"
Since the Iraq War in 2003,
more than 200,000 Iraqis have been absorbed in Sweden.
Many in this neighborhood are struggling with authorities which for some reason
wouldn't allow their families into Sweden.
Where do you live? "In that building, there."
How about this building? (since it's closer) How much further do we have to walk?
Many in Anwar's family who sold jewelry in Iraq
Were murdered by terror gangs.
Those that survived packed up and arrived at Rozen Gard
in search of shelter.
"Wait a second
Hey, mom. They're by the door.
Are you ready? Don't talk about the lack of assistance or things like that."
"At all?" "No, only about our situation in Sweden,
on the difference between life in Iraq and life here, OK?
Don't be a complainer.
Yalla, should we bring them in? Come on, come meet them.
Please, come in." Hello, hello.
"How are you doing?" We're good, thank God.
Thanks you for agreeing to have us over.
Your son is a sweetheart. "Thanks"
Where? Ah.
After Jordan and Egypt refused to accept them,
The Mathil family stayed in a refugee camp in Syria.
There, they started to dream about a different life,
far from the Middle East and its dictatorships,
and try their luck in Europe, in the democracy of Sweden.
You got here after the war? "No, just a year ago."
Oh, that's all? "Yes, we're new here."
Do you remember the war? "Yes, he remembers.
My husband arrived here just two months ago.
I filed for "family union" and they let him in.
The problem was his son.
He was in Sweden for two and a half years, he arrived here before us,
but they didn't grant him residency and sent him back to Iraq."
Why did they deny him?
"Because they didn't buy his story.
So what do they want, that he will lie?
This is the disadvantage of Sweden.
He who applies and tells the truth, doesn't get residency."
So you have to lie? "Yes. I for example lied
and within 20 days I got residency.
My son told the truth, and was refused."
So what's the conclusion? You have to... "Have to lie. Lie.
Listen, my head is constantly filled with fears about my son.
I'm not able to concentrate on anything
because all of my thoughts are about my son in Iraq.
He's alone in Iraq.
I called the immigration office in Sweden and told them:
'If my son will get kidnapped or killed, I will put all the blame on the Swedish.'
I told them: 'I will burn everything.'
I told them in these words: 'If I will lose my son,
I will burn Sweden if my son is lost there
because you sent him back there.'"
"Let him film as much as he wants."
Each person has a dish. "Yes.
If you see a building that has a lot of satellite dishes,
that's a sign Arabs live there. That's for sure.
Here in the summer, life is awesome. It's quite something."
"And then, when we arrived there, [the boys] received such freedom
that caused them to stray from their old path.
They experienced liberalism and permissiveness for the first time in their lives,
"I'll tell you, the Arabs buy a lot of cars, they don't care,
and sell them to the cheap Swedes
I couldn't control them."
at 5x its original cost."
So the Arabs here take advantage of the Swedes? "Yes."
How? "In every way."
"Arabs enjoy living it up and living off the expense of the government.
The government wastes money on them."
"I, for example, a new resident, get paid 7,000 Kronas"
Did you enter Sweden legally?
"No, I was smuggled in."
From where?
"We'll receive Swedish passports, bro." "It will still take time."
Lars Hedigard, historian and socialist,
and a left-wing movement leader from neighboring Denmark
found himself in the middle of a shift in the demographics of his neighbors.
This neighborhood, like many others,
changed face beyond recognition.
"We are the ones who don't try to understand them,
even though they are fair with us.
We don't try to understand them, aren't trying to be governed by their laws,
don't do what they ask,
don't try to assimilate into their culture.
Maybe 1 in 100 understands the Swedish.
If there arises a problem between us and them,
it will start from our side, our community.
If the fear from immigrant riots in Sweden is increasing,
Here, in the French Republic, the unrest among the millions of immigrants
at the separatist neighborhoods
has erupted and challenged the old and known order of things.
"Wait, stay here. You must stay here.
It is a problem to enter with a camera, OK?" Why?
"Because there are problems in the neighborhood. In neighborhoods like these, there are problems."
Oh, dangerous. "OK?"
"Careful, there are people here... this is a bad neighborhood. It's not safe to be here"
"If you enter the neighborhood, there will be those who will not like that."
Do you speak Arabic? "No, Arabic no."
"You hear more people speaking Arabic on the
on the buses, subways, trains, public transportation.
Two times I've witnessed people telling the immigrants
'You are in France, speak French.'"
Marseille, France
"My Muslim friends,
help us build a mosque.
This is a must, Koran-nation!"
"Happy New Year." "And to you" "Good luck"
"And to you. Bring more babies."
It's nice to walk on the street and kiss the mayor.
"To these people I'm not 'the mayor', I'm Smia.
I was born here.
Raised here, in this area.
And today, I'm the mayor of this city sector."
Are you Muslim? "Muslim, yes.
My grandparents immigrated from Algeria.
The first and second generation fit in and worked in their own way.
I would say that unfortunately it's the 4th generation
who finds it hard to fit in
because on the one hand they are not considered as real French,
and on the other hand, they no longer exist in their native countries."
"Just yesterday (recently) this neighborhood started looking like Gaza.
Gunshots, like you're at war."
"People don't understand that today, in these neighborhoods
atomic bombs are growing.
Very soon everything will get really out of hand.
They have AKs inside the neighborhoods these days.
They are all armed, there's weapons everywhere in the neighborhoods.
They shoot each other.
Just last December 6 people were killed there.
This is not a place to live. There is a lot of crime.
Whoever stays here ends up in jail."
Really? "Either that, or they sell drugs."
"There are no police in these neighborhoods.
There are neighborhoods that people don't enter any more.
Even the police don't go in."
Here the police don't enter? "It does not go into this neighborhood.
You see? It turned left."
Why?
Because... [gun shooting gesture]
Montfermeil, France
There are almost no residents here who were born in Montfermeil.
The locals here are foreigners who immigrated from 40 different nations.
80% of them are Muslims, and they fill these streets
in which the crime rate soared, only in the last month,
by 600%.
But this small town has become a symbol
and maybe a sign of what's to come.
Here's the neighborhood where the "Immigrant Intifada of 2005" began
that washed along France,
and spread all over Europe.
It started as a normal crime,
but after two local teens were killed after a police chase,
the scary truth came out.
Since then, the social and Muslim rage of the residents is directed only at one place.
Why don't people like you?
"The real question is who exactly doesn't like me?
I live really close to the immigrant neighborhoods.
They threw stones at my house, at my children,
and tried to set my house on fire twice.
I have angels guarding me."
For now, the angels have succeeded in guarding Xavier Leuman, the mayor of Montfermeil.
Some call him "The Sheriff from the Right-Wing Party"
He still succeeds to manage the struggle of what he calls the "culture wars" in France.
"My views of Islam were discussed, twisted, and empowered in mosques.
They say, 'look, the mayor is an Islamophobe'"
This is all Montfermeil? "Montfermeil."
It's huge. "Yes. It's big."
How many citizens? "27,000.
One can only dream of cultural integration.
The people here don't speak the local language of the absorbed country.
We make great efforts to change this fact. There are many families
who don't speak French at all, and they're here for 10, 20, 25 years."
Malmo, Sweden
How did this cohesion occur?
How did all the Arabs decide to come to this one specific place? Why here?
"It is known that in Rozen Gard there are a lot of Arabs. Get it?
When a refugee arrives and is asked: 'Where will you want to live?'
he will prefer to live in Rozen Gard because only Arabs live here."
"He won't pick a Swedish neighborhood. He won't understand anything there.
To live with the Swedes, how shall we say....
the Swedish are simply hard to live with."
"They're very different from us,
so we don't really know them.
She thinks they're scary and they have a veil over their head.
You think they'll attack you."
"Many foreigners are living in the area,
so that is a problem, because the city is getting split up in that way,
because they don't meet Swedish people, and we don't meet "them"
so it's like... when you come to those areas
you feel like a foreigner in your own country."
"There are Swedes who provoke Arabs,
like, there's a limit, and they cross it."
"They do this so that people will think that we...
that we are not OK, that we ruin things everywhere we go
so that others will think that we are not good people."
Are there conflicts between you and the Swedes?
"They stare at people with black hair. But they're also scared."
They are scared of you? "Yes.
They stare at you. If you stare back with a scary and direct look,
it might lead to a fight. It's scary."
"I'm telling you. The Swedes envy us.
Let's say you're a resident of Ramallah or Jerusalem,
and some foreigner from another country has arrived,
as long as you and him are in the same situation you'll respect him.
But when his condition is getting better than yours,
you'll start to envy him.
That's the situation with the Swedes."
"It happens every year, Denmark Mafia attacks Rozen Gard Mafia.
They start fighting and the police arrive."
The Muslim Mafia from Denmark, you mean? "Yes."
Come here? "Yes, comes right here."
What does the mafia do? "Everything.
Smoke hash, drugs, sell at schools, everything."
You saw them? "I saw everything.
If a Swedish girl knows I have hash,
we will instantly become friends.
I can give her some hash and then sleep with her the whole night.
Due to this, I don't get attached to many of the people here.
Maybe they will sell drugs,
and later they offer me to hang out,
to *** girls and things like that,
and then I'll get in big trouble."
What do you mean "*** girls"?
"In Rozen Gard, someone *** a girl...
in the evening the behavior around the neighborhood changes,
forces a real curfew on itself.
Upon darkness, the place becomes an immigrant jungle.
Arson, burglary, arrests, street fights
are normal.
A car arrived at the neighborhood and wanted to turn,
they were shot at."
Weapons? [guns?] "Weapons."
Are people walking around with guns? "Guns."
Like in Iraq.
If you'll stop and search someone here, you'll most likely find a weapon on him.
I promise you!
Look, they fled. Everyone here is a 'mafia-naire.'"
Even the police flee here?
The police, if there's a riot
the police don't interfere.
They stay outside the neighborhood and only after the riot ends
they enter, because they're scared to confront the gangs there."
Operational Training Malmo Police
Due to criticism it began recruiting more officers
and increased operational trainings.
But, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the department for crime prevention Heinrich Steinblad
finds himself in an almost empty police station. All by himself.
"Those riots were quite serious
it took us a while to sort it out, but we have increased our police presence greatly."
"It's true" he admits. You cannot always relate the separatism and crime rates
in Rozen Gard and in all Malmo to the Muslim population
This is the "politically correct" of Europe
Montfermeil, France
Since the riots, the French Police don't take risks.
Each crime comes with the fear that reprimanding the crime
might reignite the "volcano" of rage
Even the smallest conflict between police and civilians
Creates feelings of anxiety