This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

In France, the effort to protect the population against the Chinese virus has come a cropper because of another raging pandemic. In cities across the country, Sharia-supremacists are refusing to cooperate with the government-mandated lockdown – and are getting away with it.

A top French Ministry of the Interior official recently announced, “It is not a priority to enforce closings in certain neighborhoods and to stop gatherings.” The reason, he said, is that imposing the same restrictions on the hundreds of so-called “sensitive urban zones” that his government has essentially surrendered to Islamists in recent years would risk triggering violent mayhem.

It makes no more sense to tolerate the danger posed by Sharia-supremacist enclaves than it does to pretend potential COVID-19 hotspots can be safely ignored. Doing both poses a mortal threat to France – and the rest of the civilized world.

This is Frank Gaffney.