Oh No, The New Awesome Primary Thread

When I originally met Ghozlan, he railed that his jerry-rigged detective agency had to deal with a rigid French justice system. To register a hate crime in Francewhich comes with a higher level of punishment than an ordinary crimehe would have to appear in front of a magistrate, who was generally loath to call the beating of a rabbi in the Mtro an act of anti-Semitism. For them, Ghozlan said, it was a simple assault, usually committed by an unemployed French Muslim acting out of frustration. This enraged Ghozlan. I wanted to start a Jewish defense force, Ghozlan told me. Judge after judge told him, There is no anti-Semitism charge applicable unless someone dies. The party line of the Establishment Jewish organizations in Paris was always Sammy, stop rocking the boat.Back then, even David de Rothschild, the banker, told The**Jerusalem Post that the wave of attacks was likely coming from neo-Nazis, a hostile, aggressive, antisemitic, right-wing population He soon changed his mind.

The country’s counterterrorism forces are now desperately trying to cope with what is commonly called the third wave of anti-Semitism in modern France. The first wave, coming from the far right, morphed into the neo-Nazi crusades of the 1990s, which targeted not only France’s Jews but also the growing Muslim population isolated in projects on the outskirts of the cities.The second wave came from the far leftrooted in pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel attitudesand erupted during the first and second intifadas, with flare-ups in the 1990s and early 2000s.The third wave has been propelled by the recent rise of ISIS, has metastasized via thousands of Web sites and social media, and, in France, has become homegrown and home-schooled among a vulnerable population of young Muslims. One Jewish-American expat, living with his young family in a quiet part of Le Neuf Trois, just over the Boulevard Priphrique from Montmartre, told me, It can feel like there are two choices for a young man in the projects: sell drugs or turn to Islam.French Muslims who are as assimilated as French Jews speak privately of suddenly being trapped into the identity of Islam, whether they are religious or not. Sartre once wrote of the Jews, It is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew. The same can be said about Muslims, as the documentary-film maker and novelist Karim Miskwho was born in Ivory Coast and was not brought up Muslimwrote in Le Monde: It is the Islamophobe who makes the Muslim.

Faith writes:What is with this? It's truly totalitarianism -- only one opinion is allowed. I haven't done anything on this thread except try to present the truth as I know it, but somebody would like to censor it all and shut me up completely, ME, a complete nobody who just happens to be the only one at EvC with my point of view.

Faith writes:The comparison with the Jews of WWII seems quite farfetched though,...

Faith writes:I haven't done anything on this thread except try to present the truth as I know it, but somebody would like to censor it all and shut me up completely....

Faith writes:1) They have enough inspiration from Islam itself

Faith writes:2) there would have to be some active French anti-Semitic attacks to draw them into it

Faith writes:Nobody is "withholding" help. They are being checked out. But since when do transcendent principles" require you to take people into your home who might do some kind of harm to your family? I think you've got Your "transcendent principles" out of whack.