He was screaming “Allahu akbar,” called Sarah “Satan,” and “dirty Jew,” and prayed after her killing. But it’s not a hate crime. Why? Because France has a growing and restive Muslim population. Mustn’t do anything to offend them. That’s how it works today in diverse, multicultural France.
“Hate Crime Charges Dropped In Paris Trial Of Muslim Accused Of Killing Jewish Neighbor,” JTA, February 1, 2018 (thanks to Dave):
(JTA) — A judge in Paris scrapped hate crime charges from the indictment of a murder suspect who confessed to killing his Jewish neighbor.
The move came amid a rise in reported violent anti-Semitic attacks in France.
The Paris Prosecutor’s office said it would appeal the dismissal Monday of the aggravated element of a hate crime in the trial of Kobili Traore, a 28-year-old Muslim man who on April 4 threw his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, to her death from the window of her third-story apartment.
The charge of murder aggravated by racial hatred was excluded from what is now the indictment against Traore by the examining magistrate — a function designed to oversee prosecutors and intercept flawed indictments before they form the basis of an active trial.
Francis Kalifat, president of the Jewish umbrella group CRIF, told Le Parisien daily that the examining magistrate’s move was “an insult” to Halimi’s memory.
Separately, the Interior Ministry of France on Wednesday reported a 7.2 percent decrease in 2017 in the number of anti-Semitic attacks in the country over 2016. The ministry recorded 311 cases. But of those, 97 were classified as violent assaults – a 25 percent increase over 2016, Le Figaro reported.
The SPCJ watchdog unit of French Jewry, which receives and collects reports independently to the Interior Ministry, has not yet published its report for 2017.
In the Halimi case, Traore was heard shouting about Allah and calling her “a devil” in Arabic. Halimi’s daughter said he had called the daughter a “dirty Jewess” in the building two years before the murder. But the examining magistrate in Traore’s trial, which opened this week, dismissed the aggravated hate crime charge before the trial actually began, Le Parisien reported Wednesday. Traore is pleading temporary insanity, though he has no history of mental illness.
For months after the slaying of the 66-year-old Jewish physician, leaders of French Jewry urged authorities to include the aggravated element of a hate crime in the draft indictment against Traore. They finally agreed in September.
The incident occurred months before France’s general election, in which the French political establishment was bracing for unprecedented gains for the far-right National Front party.
Marine Le Pen, the anti-immigration party’s leader, received a historic third of the vote in the final round of the presidential elections, which she lost to the centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron.
Many French Jews believe authorities and the media covered up or ignored the alleged anti-Semitic elements connected to Halimi’s suspected murder to prevent it from becoming fodder for Le Pen’s divisive campaign.
Juhani says
Seems like Islam was one mean of higher power to drive the Jews back to their homeland.
StellaSaidSo says
And which ‘higher power’ would that be, Juhani?
R Russell says
Secularism doesn’t work. Society is built on secularism is not prepared for what the evil supernatural realm will throw at them.
It is no surprise that Islam is mainly against the Jews and Christians.
Today warfare in the spiritual realm is almost forgotten about.
Christians, who are grafted into the olive tree (Jews) must rediscover the power available through the Holy Spirit to fight against the secular society which is clearly not working and allowing hate crimes to be redefined.
StellaSaidSo says
The secular society was working fine until the barbarians invaded.
Andy says
Right Stella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-iYBt9P6uo
Savvy Kafir says
Stella nails it again!
In many ways, secular society — especially in Europe — was shaping up nicely until the True Believers of Islam invaded the West in large numbers.
The countries that were the LEAST religious — the Scandinavian nations, etc. — were the MOST healthy & happy, by pretty much any standards you can name … until they allowed the pious barbarians of Islam to move in, bringing their 7th Century worldview, inspired by religious fantasy & superstition.
Granted, many European men had been emasculated by political correctness — which now puts their people & their societies at a major disadvantage, when faced with the super-aggressive Alpha males of Islam. And the disarmed people of Europe had become too dependent on their governments for their personal safety — which is not working out so well now, because of the Muslim rapists & jihadis now living among them.
What is needed is a more robust form of secularism, in which political correctness, cultural relativism, & learned helplessness are rejected — and a greater value is placed upon Western civilization, common sense, & the warrior spirit.
Lydia Church says
Secular society does not work.
A vacuum was created and islam is what entered it.
That is why we have this mess today.
Not honoring God is why we have this mess everywhere.
That is why the whole planet is a mess.
When God is not welcome, bad things enter instead.
Look at all the communist countries. Atheism took over, and society fell apart.
It fell to tyranny and the crushing of every freedom. Look at the USSR.
Look at Eastern Europe. Look at China. At North Korea. At Cuba.
That is what it looks like.
Take a good look.
And then decide if that is what you want.
It is God or it is the devil. There is no catwalk inbetween.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24; 15
StellaSaidSo says
‘…What is needed is a more robust form of secularism…’
Exactly. Which would include the ability to recognise a threat before it became dire. The problem is not secularism per se, but the failure to robustly defend secular values against ideologies which seek to destroy Western liberty, equality, and democracy. We have fallen victim to an excess of virtue. In the name of tolerance, we have allowed intolerance to proliferate, and now must defend ourselves against a formidable assault from the combined enemy forces of Marxism and Islam.
StellaSaidSo says
@ Lydia Church
I don’t know how many more times it has to be said that atheism is not your enemy, Lydia. ‘Atheism’ simply means ‘without belief in god/s’. It does not imply adherence to any particular body of opinion on any other matter. The fact that socialists and communists tend not to profess religious faith does not mean that all non-believers are socialist and communists. The vast majority are not. And, as has been pointed out to you before, there is no shortage of socialists and communists, and supporters thereof, within Christian communities – the Pope being an obvious example. It cannot have escaped your notice that Christian churches today have failed dismally in defending the civilised world against the predations of Islam. Chances are, if the SHTF, the person standing next to you on the barricades will be an atheist. Maybe you should think about that a little, and, in future, not be quite so quick to malign atheists, as you so often do on JW threads.
LeftisruiningCanada says
They didn’t invade.
We invited them in, opened the gates, for lots of reasons.
StellaSaidSo says
A mere technicality, LIRC. WE the people didn’t invite them in; the traitors who presume to speak for us invited them in. And for their own nefarious reasons. These Muslim hordes are invaders, who have taken advantage of weakness, just as their predecessors did. No-one who has witnessed thousands of able-bodied young men of military age marching across Europe in a progress which stretches for miles, or watched the boats unloading in Greece and Italy, could think of such a sight as anything other than an invasion.
RichardL says
it wasn’t a hate crime! A Muslim did it so it cannot be a hate crime because they did it for their love of allah.
In ten years time people will look back and think, how could people be so incredibly stupid an invent the concept of a hate crime?
Phil Copson says
“….It is no surprise that Islam is mainly against the Jews and Christians.”
I think you’ll find that the Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists have an even longer and bloodier history of warfare against invading muslim armies.
The anti-semitic violence to which poor Sarah Halimi and others have fallen victim, was an entirely foreseeable consequence of mass immigration from N.Africa and the ME. If you promote multi-culturalism, you have first to ask what those cultures are ? And do people from those cultures also believe in multi-culturalism, or will they seek to impose theirs on the host society ? If you prate about “diversity”, what are the differences ? If “tolerance” is to be the chief virtue, then hadn’t you better make sure that the incomers possess it ?
If I gave out somebody’s home address to an arsonist together with a can of fuel and a box of matches, how could I deny responsibility for the deaths that followed ? That is exactly the position that the politicians and the chattering-classes are in; they knew full that if they imported people from countries where criminality, corruption, violence, rape and murder were commonplace, then these things would be visited on their own population. They have gone ahead with it anyway, and the worse the consequences, the more loudly they shout for more.
WPM says
+1
I like to add Islam makes it a sacrament to kill and or convert the unbeliever with the threat of death .I know Jews, Christians ,and I believe Hindus, Sikhs , and Buddhist do not have that in their doctrine . The only modern model of a idolatry that comes close to Islam is Nazism. Nazism is still around ,but it is an unacceptable underground group and a small number of Nazis are not in any place of political power any where in the world. Islam by the lefts appeasement . of refusing to see Islam true violent nature make it a commandment to commit violence to all those outside its circle of Islam.
ElderlyZionist says
“…Traore is pleading temporary insanity, though he has no history of mental illness.”
How convenient. And the French judge bought his transparent excuse. How craven
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Temporary insanity” must be the closest thing his defense can find in French law which matches his description of not being responsible for the murder ‘because it is not you that kills them, it is allah”.
StellaSaidSo says
The Prosecutor is appealing the judge’s dismissal of the ‘hate’ component. Let’s hope he prevails. If ever there was a crime motivated by hatred on the basis of race or religion, this is it.
Michael Copeland says
“…between us and you enmity and hatred forever..”
That is the “excellent pattern” praised in Koran 60:4, part of Islamic law.
So obviously this crime has nothing to do with either Islam or hate, according to the French prosecutors.
StellaSaidSo says
According to the judge. The prosecutor disagrees.
Rob says
Can an entire religion be “mentally ill”? I suppose maybe… just look at the suicidal cults like Heaven’s Gate. Imagine how the world might change if the entire Religion of Peace committed mass suicide
LeftisruiningCanada says
So long as they didn’t all choose to blow themselves up at the same time, or seek death by cop, it might not be so bad.
MFritz says
Better leave for Israel or the US. At 8% and more France is already a lost cause.
Zachary Trainor says
“France is a lost cause” – exactly the thought that came to me. France is done, put a fork in it.
Lydia Church says
So a muslim male, murdering a Jewish female, proclaiming his hatred for Jews at the same time, and uttering an islamic death cry, is not considered a hate crime.
But criticizing islam for this exact sort of action… is considered a hate crime?
Obvious bias, conspired agenda, and evil plot is at work here!
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco
brenrod says
France and europe got a second chance and blew it….. its only natural that europe and france are cannibalized by those they appeased and paid to kill the Jews…. the Covenant was clear…
s says
France as in many other nations, is implementing Sharia Law under the guise of “hate speech” “Racism”
“Islamophobia” and what ever other name-calling they can think to use against their citizens…
America is following suit…. we shall all lose our Nations to Sharia and the Global Caliphate….
Herman says
How about Canada actually making it a law, the islamophobia NONSENSE