The Versailles Memorandum

From The Versailles Memorandum pp.77-83

The first edict required the removal of all statues from public places. The Prophet (peace be upon him) prohibited any representation of Allah's creatures in pictures or in sculpture.
'Every image maker is in the Fire,' says the Qur'an, 'For each image he made, a being will be fashioned to torment him in Hell.'
So the statues had to go.
Outside Limehouse Library, the former Labour Prime Minister and local Member of Parliament, Clement Atlee, was toppled from his pedestal. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army and author of a famous report into poverty in the East End, suffered a similar fate in the Mile End Road where once he had preached. Outside the London Hospital, a mob of young men smashed the Winged Angel, which had been a gift from the Jewish people of the East End. And at Upton Park football stadium, police had to restrain hundreds of emotional West Ham supporters as the Champions' Statue of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters was removed and driven away to the National Football Museum in Preston.
Because the Holy Qur'an prohibits consumption of the swine flesh, the second edict to be issued banned the slaughter, transportation, sale and purchase of pigs and pork products throughout the zone.
Local supermarkets cleared their shelves and cabinets of pork joints, bacon rashers, pork pies, sausages and tins of luncheon meat, and a local branch of Lidl was prosecuted by Public Health inspectors when a can of chipolatas was discovered during a random inspection. A greasy spoon café just off Queen's Road was trashed by a mob and set on fire when a rumour spread through the nearby market that it was still supplying bacon sandwiches to its kuffar customers, and a 7/11 corner store was wrecked when a Muslim customer claimed to have seen packets of pork scratchings hidden in a box behind the counter. Local restaurants removed all pork products from their menus, and local butchers began to specialize in halal meat.
An early swathe of reforms was aimed at local schools. It was made compulsory for all female students and teachers to cover their heads, and principals were advised to allow male pupils to grow beards. Boys and girls began to be taught in segregated classes, and the school day was extended to accommodate two hours per day of religious instruction.
The daily act of collective worship, required by the Education Act of 1944 but long ignored in most British schools, was reinstated. Islamic prayers were said at noon, at mid-afternoon (when the shadows start to lengthen), and after sunset.
Arabic displaced French on the foreign language syllabus, sex education was wound up, and physical education lessons for girls came to an end. Homosexual teachers were taken on one side and asked if they wouldn't be happier transferring to other schools outside the SIZ, and a voluntary severance scheme was instituted to which Jewish members of staff were repeatedly and energetically alerted.
The Qur'an teaches that 'The only true religion is Islam' and that 'Christians and Jews and polytheists are the worst among creatures and they go to hell.' Unlike Hindus, Buddhists and other pagans and idolaters, however, Jews and Christians are recognised as 'People of the Book,' for they received revelations from Allah (even though they have disregarded or misinterpreted most of them ever since). This gave Jews and Christians in the SIZs special privileges.
They were not required to convert to Islam. If they wished, they could continue following their own faiths as dhimmis, or protected peoples. However, the Qur'an and the ahaddith do lay down certain conditions that have to be observed in these cases, and these were gradually introduced into law in the new SIZs.
One condition was that infidels must not proselytise. They were also prohibited from building any new temples or churches, or from renovating or repairing existing ones. These bans were enforced by local planning authorities, and over time, some of the older East End churches began to fall into disrepair.
It is also prohibited for dhimmis to live in buildings which are higher than those in which their Muslim neighbours reside, so Housing Officers began to reserve vacant apartments in municipal tower blocks for Muslim families only.
Another early edict clamped down on illicit sexual behaviour. Sex shops were issued with immediate notices of closure and the police were told to prioritise action against illegal brothels. Feminists paraded in Victoria Park to show their support, but the rally broke up in confusion when the religious police turned up and starting handing out black cotton headscarves. The Mullah explained:
'The Holy Qur'an tells us that: "Ladies must abide at home; if they go out they have to cover themselves in order not to be known."'
Prostitutes working from their own homes were visited by the religious police and told to move out of the East End, and gay clubs were shut down.
The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, and its religious police force, the Mutaween, established censorship committees to vet films before they were released into local cinemas. Bookshops were ordered to remove blasphemous authors from their shelves. Newsagents were told to stop selling magazines featuring naked female breasts and pictures of women in lurid and suggestive poses, and some, run mainly by Jews, were shut down for repeated violations.
Another edict stopped shops from selling scratch cards or tickets for the national lottery, and many East End ladies of mature years were left wondering how to fill their afternoons when the bingo halls on the Hackney Road closed their doors for the last time. The Holy Qur'an teaches that 'gambling is a great sin, an abomination of Satan's handiwork,' so raffles were banned at school fund-raisers and charity fetes, and Coles, William Hill and Ladbrokes were told to shut down their betting shops. It did not take long for bookies' runners to start to re-appear in the cafés and the back streets of the East End, a throw-back to the sepia days of the 1950s before off-course betting was legalised.
As time went by, the regulations multiplied. All businesses were required to stop for the fard salat, the five compulsory daily prayers, and to close at dusk during the holy month of Ramadan. Employers were told to deduct five per cent from their employees' pay cheques to be donated to Muslim charities.
Banks had to reorganise their financial services to comply with the Sharia ban on usury, or riba...
The civilian police were stopped from using dogs to control crowds or to sniff out hidden drugs and explosives, for the Prophet, peace be upon him, taught that even the angels refuse to enter a house where a kalb is present. Police officers were also told to remove their shoes when entering the homes of Muslim suspects, and to abandon dawn raids lest these interfere with people's early morning devotions.
One of the most controversial edicts concerned the regulation of pubs, clubs and off-licences. At first, proprietors were told they could keep trading provided they did not sell alcohol to Muslims. But it soon became clear that it was impossible to comply with such a law, for there was no sure way of knowing whether a potential customer was a believer or an infidel... Gradually, the pubs and off-licences closed their doors, and this sparked an exodus every evening as less devout East Enders migrated to neighbouring boroughs in search of a drink.
Over time, public facilities became increasingly segregated. Local government offices were made single-sex. Members of the public seeking advice about their garbage collection, or wishing to inquire about library opening times, now had to enter the Town Hall through the appropriate male or female entrance and wait in partitioned cubicles to see an official of their own sex... Swimming pools and sports clubs were strictly segregated and special pool sessions were reserved for women wishing to bathe in their chadors.
Theatre and cinema audiences were also divided into men's and women's seating areas, so many couples stopped going altogether. Night clubs were allowed to remain open provided they did not serve alcohol, but Islam prohibits men from dancing or from watching women dance, so many patrons didn't see the point in going any more.
Sports stadia were required to have separate entrances and separate seating areas for women, and female joggers in public parks were regularly harassed by the religious police who banned immodest running vests and track suits which failed to disguise the curvature of the hips and buttocks...
The European federal authorities agreed to remove restrictions on second or subsequent wives seeking entry from overseas following arranged marriages with European nationals, but they did dig in their heels over honour killings, which they still insisted should be investigated and prosecuted. The European authorities also forced compromises on the use of traditional punishments against those found guilty of adultery, blasphemy, apostasy and theft.
European Health and Safety guidelines strictly limited the pain and injury that could lawfully be inflicted during stonings and floggings, and in 2027 the European Court outlawed any dismemberment of limbs resulting in greater than five per cent incapacity. Following this ruling, punishment by complete severance of hands came to an end throughout the United States of Europe.

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