“‘No to the Judaization of Algeria!’ and ‘Muslim Algeria!’ were among slogans chanted by the demonstrators, who also condemned Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.” They don’t want any presence in Algeria of those whom the Qur’an condemns as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82).
“Salafists oppose Algiers synagogue reopening,” Agence France Presse, July 12, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
ALGIERS: Salafists protested Friday against government plans to reopen synagogues which were closed for security reasons during Algeria’s civil war of the 1990s.
After weekly Friday prayers at Al-Mouminine Mosque in the poor Belcourt district of Algiers, dozens of worshippers tried to march in the streets but were blocked by police, an AFP journalist reported.
“No to the Judaization of Algeria!” and “Muslim Algeria!” were among slogans chanted by the demonstrators, who also condemned Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
They were responding to a call by Salafist leader Abdelfatah Hamadash to oppose the mooted reopening of synagogues, which he said would pave the way for “a normalization of relations between Algeria and Israel.”
The North African country’s Jewish population, which numbered around 130,000 when a war of independence from France broke out in 1954, is tiny, although no official figures are available.
The vast majority left during the war, and those who remained were targeted by hard-line Islamists during the bloody decade of civil strife, when two of their leaders were assassinated and synagogues closed.
Religious Affairs Minister Mohammad Aissa said last week that the Jewish community in the country had “the right to exist,” indicating that its synagogues would eventually be reopened.
“There is a Jewish community in our country that is well accepted by Algerian society. It has the right to exist,” he said, describing the community’s leader as a “patriot.”
He said, however, the reopening of synagogues was not likely soon, adding that “a place of worship must be made safe before it can be opened to the faithful.”
Don’t hold your breath.
Jay Boo says
Israel – 4000 years of history
Islam – 1400 years of lunacy
Jovial Joe says
Islam’s Henry Ford school of multiculturalism: you can have any place of worship you like, as long as it’s a mosque.
Bradamante says
Muslim logic. The Jews shouldn’t have a homeland of their own, and they shouldn’t live in other people’s countries either. Ergo, they just shouldn’t live. The amazing thing is that liberals don’t see what the program is.
Jay Boo says
@Bradamante
Liberals wishing to appear politically correct are guided by a news media that wishes to appear politically correct .
Jay Boo says
No word yet of NPR scolding Algeria for xenophobia or religious intolerance.
Maybe BBC will step up to the plate, while we wait.
Buraq says
To you, your religion and to me, mine ( Al Qur’an 109:1-6) ……… except in the case of non-Muslims!
Clowns!
Jacksonl03 says
Staggering intellectual dissonance: Islam, claiming to be the perfect way of life, a giant of the philosophical world, so frightened of the comparatively weak midget Judaism that it murders to prevent the opening of a synagogue. For fear of what . . . ?
Jay Boo says
“For fear of what . . . ?”
Because Islam is not truly based on a sincere religious faith but on an external political system that manipulates vanity up to the point of fanatic self-delusion, it has no other choice but to be control/freaky.
Kepha says
Are there even enough Jews left in Algeria to muster a decent minyan?
In case Algeria normalizes relations with Israel, have the Third Worldist and Islamist movements in Algeria left enough recognizable Jewish cemeteries for any Israeli, French, American, Canadian or South American tourists to recognize should they wish to return and visit the burial places of their great-grandparents?
gravenimage says
The vast majority left during the war, and those who remained were targeted by hard-line Islamists during the bloody decade of civil strife, when two of their leaders were assassinated and synagogues closed.
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Notice that during a conflict that had nothing whatsoever to do with Jews that pious Muslims took time out to threaten and murder Jews.
Rather like the civil war in Syria, where the pious are taking time out to threaten and murder Christians.
God, I hate Islam…
Also, notice how similar this story is to this one in neighboring Libya:
“Libya: Jew who tried to rebuild synagogue to be deported — ‘There is no place for Jews in Libya'”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/libya-jew-who-tried-to-rebuild-synagogue-to-be-deported-there-is-no-place-for-jews-in-libya