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Tunisia: Muslims throw Molotov cocktails at Jewish school

Jan 11, 2018 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

What does Tunisia’s tiny Jewish community have to do with the conditions against which Tunisians are protesting? Nothing whatsoever, of course, but the Jews are convenient scapegoats. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

“Protests hit Tunisia for third night as PM warns of clampdown,” by Tarek Amara and Ulf Laessing, Reuters, January 10, 2018:

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian demonstrators defied the threat of a security clampdown on Wednesday as they spilled onto the streets of the capital and at least four other towns for a third night of violent protest fuelled by economic hardship.

Police fired teargas to disperse crowds in Tunis and in Tebourba, a small town nearby where one protestor was killed in Monday, witnesses said.

Since starting with one small protest on Sunday – just days before the 7th anniversary of the Arab Spring movement that convulsed North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 – the demonstrations have spread across much of the country….

Late on Tuesday, clashes erupted in more than 20 towns, as protesters attacked police stations and government buildings and torched cars, also hurling petrol bombs at a Jewish school on the southern tourist island of Djerba.

About 50 policemen were wounded in that violence and 237 people were arrested, including two Islamists, said interior ministry spokesman Khelifa Chibani….

The previous day, petrol bombs were hurled at a Jewish school on the southern tourist island of Djerba, home to an ancient Jewish community.

There were no protests in Djerba itself, but locals said unknown assailants had exploited the fact that there was a reduced security presence as police were busy elsewhere.

“Unknown people took the opportunity of the protests and threw Molotov cocktails into the lobby of (the)… school,” the head of the local Jewish community, Perez Trabelsi, told Reuters.

Jews have lived for over 2,000 years in mainly Muslim Tunisia, where Islamists, secular groups and labour unions have since 2011 argued over what direction the country should take.

Djerba is home to Africa’s oldest synagogue, which was hit by al Qaeda-linked militants in 2002 in a truck bomb attack that killed 21 people including Western tourists.
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Among the hundreds arrested on Tuesday were two radical Islamists who had helped storm a police station in Nefza town, the interior ministry spokesman said. In Tunis, a crowd stormed a Carrefour market….

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  1. CRUSADER says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 4:22 pm

    Muslims think they are saying Mazel Tov….

    • Andy says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 4:53 pm

      Here is a remarkable story that God wiling will spread around the world to all people especially Muslims.

      • Andy says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 5:18 pm

        We can all come together Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and all people thru:

        Jesus Christ

        This Iranian Jew begged Jesus to heal his son. “I can’t keep quiet anymore.”

        • Lydia Church says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 7:43 pm

          The only spiritual ‘unity’ we have is in Christ once we COME TO CHRIST for salvation and become Christian disciples of Jesus.

          Don’t get fooled into the universal syncretism deception. It’s NOT ‘all one’!
          The only way to be saved is by coming to Jesus yourself according to Jesus Himself:
          John 14; 6, Acts 4; 12, 1 Timothy 2; 5

          You can’t get saved by the “Jesus” of the koran, because it’s a false Jesus. It must be the real Jesus of the Bible. (You know, since the one in the Bible IS God, and the one of the koran is not? Other examples abound.) Colossians 2; 9, John 1, Isaiah 9, etc. etc. etc……

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 11:18 pm

          nice, thanks Andy

        • Andy says

          Jan 12, 2018 at 12:37 pm

          My pleasure LeftisruiningCanada

        • Andy says

          Jan 12, 2018 at 12:39 pm

          My pleasure CRUSADER

      • CRUSADER says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 6:08 pm

        Mario Joseph is wonderful.

        Thanks for that link about the former imam.

        Very expressive and gratifying explanation of Christian conversion.

        Inspiring!

        +++++++

        • Lydia Church says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 7:46 pm

          I haven’t seen the video, maybe he really did get saved, it’s not impossible to start reading about this somewhere else and get lead to the real Christ in the end of the journey.
          But the wording is deceptive in the sense of ‘all coming together’ without mentioning ‘in Christ.’

      • 6woods says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 11:19 pm

        Andy, I appreciate the optimism, but for every muslim who escapes the gaping maw of islam, there are 100,000 who are born into the cesspool.

    • Lydia Church says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 7:32 pm

      Ibrahim? Hello? Ibrahim?
      Are you still there?

      What were you saying again?
      Remind us please…

      WHO did what to WHOM?!?!

      Or… maybe he has ‘logic dyslexia’!

      Don’t engage privately via skype with him, it could also be a trap
      to identify you, your name, face, location, etc.

      • CRUSADER says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 7:41 pm

        Lydia Church ~

        Please do not call upon the Shaytan …..

        Stay in the Light!

        DEUS VULT
        +++++++++

        • Lydia Church says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 7:46 pm

          Good point!

          I couldn’t resist a little jesting there for a time…

          : D

          God bless!

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 7:54 pm

        Likewise Abu Salma, who could not construct a valid argument to save his life, but is very keen to ‘debate’ via skype.

        • Save Europe says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 10:51 pm

          It’s probably some form of bestiality pornography that he will unleash upon you, visually, if you Skype him. No one wants to see that!

        • 6woods says

          Jan 12, 2018 at 12:27 am

          Don’t do it Stella! Not that I think you would. You are one of the most intelligent posters here.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Jan 12, 2018 at 12:42 am

          LOL, 6woods, not a chance! Either he ‘debates’ publicly – ie on JW, where we can all enjoy the spectacle of him making a complete fool of himself again – or not at all. Thanks for kind words, same backatcha!

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 12, 2018 at 1:06 am

          I imagine he wants to get emails and other contact information from Anti-Jihadists here. *Definitely* not something you would want to do.

    • J D S says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 10:46 am

      I used to think that things like this was not typical Muslim but more and more I see that it is. it must be…because I don’t see the Muslim community and I mean world wide Muslim community protesting it.
      Time for the western governments to act…oops probably too late in many western nations.

  2. gravenimage says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    Tunisia: Muslims throw Molotov cocktails at Jewish school

    What does Tunisia’s tiny Jewish community have to do with the conditions against which Tunisians are protesting? Nothing whatsoever, of course, but the Jews are convenient scapegoats.
    ……………………….

    These poor people.

    As of 2011, there were just about 1,700 Jews surviving in Tunisia–700 Jews were living in Tunis and 1,000 on the island of Djerba. I’m sure there are even fewer there now. Yet they are still victims of majority Muslims.

    God, I hate Islam.

  3. Ray Jarman says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 4:44 pm

    Once again, I will bet a dollar to a doughnut that this does not appear in any news site other than Robert Spencer and Pam Geller’s websites. I will also bet that neither of these brave souls will be invited to any major news (loosely used) stations in America. Nor will they talk about the tragedies brought upon the Jews throughout the Middle East or North Africa where they have been killed and/or had their homes and possessions stolen over the last century while clamoring about the supposedly displaced murderers and their families who tried to obliterate the Jewish people from the afore mentioned areas.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 5:37 pm

      You can probably bet the farm on that, Mr Jarman!

      Betting dollars to donuts is too safe a bet to be worthwhile!

      (….meaning “to feel almost certain” because the dollars are bet against something nearly worthless and perhaps shaped like a zero….)

      Anyway, so much for the notion that Jews run the News…. It would seem that they don’t, otherwise they would be making sure these reports get out widely….

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 5:15 pm

    Jew Hatred comes from the Islamic primary source texts of which 9.3% is Jew Hatred!

    – 1% of Meccan Koran is Jew hatred
    – 17% of Medinan Koran is Jew hatred
    – 8.9% of hadiths are Jew hatred
    – 12% of Sira is Jew hatred
    – 9.3% of Islamic Trilogy (Islamic primary texts) is Jew hatred
    – 7% of Mein Kampf is Jew hatred by comparison.
    – Koran of Mecca filled with Jewish stories plagiarized and distorted.
    – Jews of Medina did not validate his prophecy: So Mohammed then exterminated Jews, stole their property and enslaved their women and children. Mohammed is the example that Muslims must consider ‘perfect’ and must follow.
    – Grand total of Jew Hatred in Koran: 10,242 total words / 152,006 words = 6.7% Jew hatred.
    – Total number of Jew Hatred Verses in Koran: 123 Jew-hating Koran verses

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 5:38 pm

      Bill Warner is excellent on these statistical points.

  5. Manny says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    My first thought was what the heck is a Jewish school doing in Tunisia? My second thought was that all Jews and Christians should leave Muslim dominated countries. My third thought was maybe they shouldn’t leave. How else are these savages ever going to know what real civilization looks like without Jews and Christians around. Pray for the conversion of all Muslims.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 7:02 pm

      They don’t care what ‘real civilisation’ looks like, Manny. they just want to kill Jews and Christians. Unfinished business. The whole of North Africa was once Jewish and Christian, before the Muslims murdered their way thru it.

      • Manny says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 7:44 pm

        Apparently so. Thanks.

        • Lydia Church says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 7:53 pm

          Hi,

          I know a Manny from another site whose comments I always agreed with and you seem to be new here, so I just wanted to say hello and welcome, if it is you or not either way. It is a very news worthy site!

          ( :

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 10:50 pm

        Yep. The Jews and Christians should get out of Muslim-majority countries, before they’re all killed.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 7:44 pm

      Manny, there have been Jews in Tunisia for centuries–they much predate Muslims there. But there are so few left and they are so threatened that it would probably be better if they did get out.

      • christianblood says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 8:30 pm

        Huge demonstrations in Tunisia, including fire-bombing of Jews schools
        and hundreds arrested and yet Trump and the West are not calling regime-change in Tunisia like they did in Iran last week. This is very telling!

        • Terry Gain says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 11:31 pm

          Yes. It tells me that Trump’s plate is full. Dummy.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 11, 2018 at 11:43 pm

          I see that “Christianblood” is once again claiming that the horrors of Shari’ah and threatening Israel are good things, and just signs that they are resisting evil American values. *Ugh*.

          As for Tunisia, Trump plans to cut aid to Tunisia:

          https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ru/originals/2017/07/tunisia-united-states-aid-budget-cuts.html

    • CRUSADER says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 9:46 pm

      Lydia Church ~

      There’s another site???

      😉

    • Blangwort says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 10:32 pm

      Jews lived mostly peacefully in those countries for over 1000 years, all while antisemitism was raging through Europe. People don’t just pick up and leave a place like that without severe provocation.

      The difference today is this wave of new fundamentalists who take their religion far too seriously. It comes from oil rich countries pushing their screed in to the world.

      It is a war by proxy, and it is a war that we can’t easily win unless we deal with it at the source. And so far, nobody has the guts to do it.

      • JeffS says

        Jan 12, 2018 at 1:49 pm

        I suggest reading The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, by Andrew Bostom, and The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam, by Bat Ye’or. Both these books put the lie to the idea that Jews lived peacefully in Muslim lands through all those years.

  6. CRUSADER says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    North Africa was Christian at one point. So, there are holdovers from that era.
    Same with the Jews, as there was a diaspora from the Near East, from Spain, and from Europe….
    over the generations.

    The point though is that they should be able to freely worship and freely live.
    They aren’t the ones harming anyone.

    Islam is intolerant, from the very beginning.

    The imam who converted to Christianity has a poignant journey that others may follow….

    • Lydia Church says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 7:50 pm

      Precisely.

      And it does add light to the region, but of course it will end in the light of martyrdom for the Christians who remain. Others do have the right to exist there, and exactly, they were all there before since islam came into existence later and invaded… hence the crusades. Now, since they are in danger, that is the whole point of this website.

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    There’s really not much detail in this press clipping from which to make judgements. These particular attacks may well be by Jihadists taking an opportunity to attack local Jews or it could be a combination of frustration and latent anti Jewish sentiment.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 11:46 pm

      So–it could be Jew-hating Muslims, or else Jew-hating Muslims…

      • Matthieu Baudin says

        Jan 13, 2018 at 3:26 am

        True enough Graven, I expect that I was hoping the event was more a manipulative Jihadist thing rather than a broader based type of local ‘pogrom’. You’re absolutely right of course that Jew Hating is a central feature of Traditional Islam though from time to time ordinary Muslim folk allow the passions to fade during less militant historical periods.

  8. CRUSADER says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    What more is there to judge?

    Radical Islamists arrested and had previously stormed a police station. Restless violence.

    Well-known Jewish areas targeted. They were hit because they were “well-off” and they own the media?

    Looters got at a French business owned market store, the Carrefour.
    (That of course could be economic frustration…..)

    • 6woods says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 10:35 pm

      I know, right? These Jewish shysters control everything. They get what they deserve. /sarc off

  9. Rob says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 11:44 pm

    What the Paris Hyper Cacher store have to do with Charlie Hebdo?
    What did the Mumbai Shabat House have to do with the Hotel siege and mass murder?
    The general attacks will include a Jew-specific element if they can.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 11:49 pm

      So true.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 2:27 am

      Yes, there have been several attacks in France, some that were not completed, that included or intended to end by including Jewish schools or other Jewish owned premises.

      It’s quite ‘normal’ unfortunately.

  10. Baucent says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 12:42 am

    “Jews have lived for over 2,000 years in mainly Muslim Tunisia”

    Incredible really when you think about it. The Jews have been there since the times of the Roman Empire, long before Tunisia even existed as a country or the Middle Eastern Arabs and their intolerant religion arrived. If anyone has a right to call them selves the “indigenous people” of that land it’s the Jews who live there. But the spiteful muslims, refuse to accept them or allow them space and peace. Same situation in Israel as well.

  11. MFritz says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 5:49 am

    Tunisia… you don’t hear a lot about it. But it’s basically as f***ed up as the Emirates. Not much democracy and high levels of corruption. And the king plays the “moderate”-card because the European tourists would stay away if he did otherwise. And the European countries would (maybe) invest elsewhere.

    It used to be different. But since the 1990s (especially since Algeria) the islamic card is being played by the government to keep the population under control. Too many Muslim Brotherhood-imams visiting to “preach” their poison. So no(t much) more tolerance for minorities. And its getting worse and worse. Expect levels of Turkey and Egypt in the coming years.

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