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24. Actually, Muslims in France are at less risk than Jews there
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 03:19 AM
Jan 2015

Obviously, no one should be at risk. Not Muslims or Jews or anyone else.

2015

Four Jewish hostages are murdered in cold blood at a kosher supermarket in Paris.[18]

2014

Jan. 26, 2014: Video footage captures anti-government protestors shouting “Juif, la France n’est pas a toi”—“Jew, France is not yours”–at a demonstration in Paris.[19]

March 2, 2014: A Jewish man is beaten on the Paris Metro by assailants who reportedly told him “Jew, we are going to lay into you, you have no country.”[20]

March 10, 2014: An Israeli man is attacked with a stun gun in the Marais district.[21]

March 20, 2014: A Jewish teacher is attacked leaving a kosher restaurant in Paris. After breaking his nose, the assailants drew a swastika on his chest.[22]

May 9, 2014: A number of antisemitic scrawlings were found across the Alsace region in eastern France. Stars of David and the words « Juden Raus » were written on a car near the
synagogue in Saint-Louis in southern Alsace. Other antisemitic graffiti was discovered in nearby Huninge as well as in Village-Neuf, both close to the German and Swiss borders.[23]



May 15, 2014: A Jewish woman was attacked at a bus stop in Paris’ Montmartre district by a man who shook her baby carriage and said, “Dirty Jewess, enough with your children already, you Jews have too many children, screw you.”[24]

May 16, 2014: A dozen inscriptions were found in Toulouse including: "SS", "Hitler burned 6 million Jews and forgot half" and "Long live Palestine".[25]

May 25, 2014: Two Jewish brothers who were dressed in traditional Jewish clothing were attacked near a synagogue in Créteil. One of them suffered severe injuries to his eye. They were attacked by two men who were armed with brass knuckles.[26]

June 9, 2014: Two Jewish teenagers and their grandfather are chased by an ax-wielding man and three accomplices as they walk to their synagogue in the Paris suburb of Romainville on Shavuot.[27]

June 10, 2014: A Jewish teen wearing a yarmulke and tzitzit is attacked with a Taser by group of teens at Paris’ Place de la République.[28] In Sarcelles, two Jewish teens wearing yarmulkes are sprayed with tear gas.[29]

Main article: 2014 Sarcelles riots

In July 2014, dozens of young men protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza (following the Operation Protective Edge) briefly besieged Don Isaac Abravanel Synagogue in Paris and clashed with security.[30] Accroding to Serge Benhaïm, the president of the Don Isaac Abravanel Synagogue, noone inside the building itself was attacked.[31]

July 14, 2014: Bastille Day celebrations in Paris turn violent. Anti-Israel rioters attack the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue.[32]

July 20, 2014: anti-Semitic rioting in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris. In November a 27-year-old man was convicted of arson for having deliberately set fire to a kosher grocery store.[33]

Sept. 2, 2014: Two French teenage girls are arrested for plotting to blow up a synagogue in Lyon. A Central Directorate of Homeland Intelligence source said the teens were “part of a network of young Islamists who were being monitored by security services.”[34][35]

Nov. 12, 2014: A kosher sushi restaurant in Paris is firebombed.[36]

December 2, 2014: "A Jewish woman was raped in an apparent anti-Semitic attack in Créteil, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris," according to Ynetnews.[37] The rapist told the woman that he was raping her "because you are Jewish."

2013

During November, 2013, a new phenomenon had spread. Fans of the antisemitic comedian Dieudonné responded to his request and started to get pictures of themselves making the 'quenelle salute', a backwards Nazi salute, next to Jewish or Israeli places, Or even next to group of Jews.[38]

On September 16, 2013, a 20-year-old French national of Moroccan origin called Ohr Hatorah school in Toulouse and told a secretary, “I am Mohammed Merah’s cousin and I’m coming over tonight to kill you.” That threat was not the first one of this youngster, and he was arrested.[39]

On September 10, 2013, France’s ultranationalist National Front party suspended one of its municipal candidates, Francois Chatelain of Neuville-en-Ferrain, for posting anti-Israel photos and anti-Semitic statements.[40]

On September 13, 2013, in Paris a group of Jewish boys were attacked by a gang of teenagers who called them “dirty Jews” and said “Hitler didn’t finish the job.”[41]

April 23, 2013 - Paris - A rabbi and his son were stabbed near the Beth-El synagogue by an Iranian man who had recently escaped a psychiatric hospital. The attacker stabbed the rabbi in the neck causing light injuries, while the rabbi's son was lightly cut when he came to his defense.[42]

March 12, 2013 - Lyon - A fake bomb was found near the Hillel Center, a Jewish institution in the city.[42]

January 3, 2013 - Toulouse - Anti-Semitic slogans, including a swastika alongside the words "SS" and "get the f*** out", were graffitied on a local chapter of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. The incident occurred less than a year after a terrorist killed a rabbi and three students at a Jewish school in the city.[42]

2012

October 9, 2012 – Avignon – The plaque at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery was smashed.[43]
September 19, 2012 – Sarcelles – A firebomb was thrown into a Kosher supermarket by two masked assailants, causing at least one injury.[43][44][45]
August 7, 2012 – Paris – A 17 year-old Jewish girl was severely beaten and insulted with antisemitic remarks by an 18 year-old Arab girl in a Paris suburb.[43]
July 20, 2012 – Paris – A synagogue was desecrated for the third time in 10 days.[43]
July 5, 2012 – Toulouse – A 17-year-old student of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was assaulted on a train going from Toulouse to Lyon.[43]
June 2, 2012 – Lyon – Three Jewish youth wearing skullcaps were assaulted while walking to a Jewish school for Shabbat services.[43]
March 26, 2012 – Paris – A 12-year-old Jewish boy was beaten outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting antisemitic slogans.[43][46][47][48]
March 19, 2012 – Toulouse – Four Jews were shot and killed at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school by an armed terrorist on a motorcycle, later identified by authorities as Mohammed Merah.[43][49]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_21st-century_France

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K/R and here's the pic, Blue: NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #1
I'm not seeing it, SKP Blue_In_AK Jan 2015 #2
Try a reload, or copy and paste this URL... NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #6
Blue beat me to it, so I edited this post. merrily Jan 2015 #3
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but pencils they really hurt me? Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #4
One of the best reads I've seen on the topic. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #5
Is it really a contest between the pen and the sword? merrily Jan 2015 #7
The article begs the question, "OK, the pen won. Now what?" NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #8
Won what? Those who risked their lives for freedom of expression died. merrily Jan 2015 #9
The final paragraph says it all, doesn't it? This Latoff cartoon, KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #10
Attack all ideologies you disagree with except one! oberliner Jan 2015 #13
How are you defining "Islamophobia"? Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2015 #26
Can't get Red Flag's page to load yet but I think I know which cartoon you mean... countryjake Jan 2015 #11
That's the one. Thank you. Blue_In_AK Jan 2015 #14
Another article blaming the cartoonists for their murder oberliner Jan 2015 #12
now that's some good satire! Desert805 Jan 2015 #15
That's not what I personally take from this editorial, Blue_In_AK Jan 2015 #16
I have no objection to putting it out there for discussion oberliner Jan 2015 #17
Yep. What a total load. BlueStater Jan 2015 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2015 #20
Holy shit ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2015 #22
Kick. (nt) NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #19
Bull, Muslims have been the most harmed by jihadists frazzled Jan 2015 #21
Huge K&R CrawlingChaos Jan 2015 #23
Actually, Muslims in France are at less risk than Jews there cali Jan 2015 #24
Do you have any statistical evidence for that, or just anecdata? Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2015 #25
i don't have links right now but it's something i read a few times JI7 Jan 2015 #27
Just what I've been reading over and over the last few days cali Jan 2015 #28
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