In France a letter, or rather manifesto, denouncing Islamic antisemitism and demanding that Muslims take action, has just been published in a French paper, Le Parisien. It was written by Philippe Val, a former editor of Charlie Hebdo. “‘Ethnic purging’: French stars and dignitaries condemn antisemitism,” AFP, April 21, 2018:
More than 300 French dignitaries and stars, including ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and actor Gérard Depardieu, have signed a manifesto denouncing a “new antisemitism” marked by “Islamist radicalisation”, following a string of killings of Jews.
France’s Jewish community of more than half a million is the largest in Europe but has been hit by a wave of emigration to Israel in the past two decades, partly due to the emergence of virulent antisemitism in predominantly immigrant neighbourhoods.
“We demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is antisemitism becomes a national cause before it’s too late. Before France is no longer France,” reads the manifesto, to be published in the county’s Le Figaro newspaper on Sunday.
The signatories condemn what they called a “quiet ethnic purging” driven by rising Islamist radicalism, particularly in working-class neighbourhoods. They also accuse the media of remaining silent on the matter.
“In our recent history, 11 Jews have been assassinated – and some tortured – by radical Islamists because they were Jewish,” the declaration reads.
The latest attack to rock France took place last month when two perpetrators stabbed Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman, 11 times before setting her body on fire, in a crime treated as antisemitic. Her brutal death sent shockwaves through France and prompted 30,000 people to join a march in her memory….
It appears that France’s elite is coming to its senses on the subject of Islamic antisemitism. In this letter, several hundred French men and women, many of them well-known political figures, including a former president, three former prime ministers, a former mayor of Paris, prominent writers, singers, film stars, among them Christians, Jews, and five imams who have been outspoken “reformers,” and as a result, are under round-the-clock security.
The letter points out that the current antisemitism has cost the lives of 11 Jews, some of whom were tortured before being killed, the most recent being Mireille Knoll, an 84-year-old woman who had escaped the Holocaust, and who was killed by her Muslim neighbor, whom she had befriended and known for 20 years. Among the other victims have been Ilan Halimi, 24, kidnapped and held by a Muslim gang for three weeks, while he was continuously tortured, and finally died from the torture; a rabbi in Toulouse who, after his two young children and a third Jewish child were murdered in front of him, was then shot to death; 65-year-old Sarah Halimi, who was stabbed eleven times by a Muslim neighbor and then thrown out of a window, and four shoppers at the HyperCacher, a kosher supermarket in Paris.
This letter makes several important points: for all the absurd talk about Muslims “being the new Jews,” in France it is clear that the “new Jews” are still the Jews. Jews in France are 25 times more at risk of being attacked than are Muslims. And in the last few years, 50,000 Jews in the Parisian region have felt it necessary to move from neighborhoods with Muslim immigrants because of their fears for their own safety, and for the safety, too, of their children, who are bullied by Muslim classmates.
Finally, the manifesto calls for verses of the Koran calling for the “murder and punishment of Jews, Christians and disbelievers” to be removed on the grounds that they are “obsolete.” That’s a good many verses in the Qur’an that would have to be removed. The uncompromising division of the world between Believer and Unbeliever, Muslim and non-Muslim, is not tangential, but rather central, to Islam.
Muslims were quick to respond. Within a day, they had denounced the letter, claiming that it unfairly stigmatized Islam.
As reported by Agence France-Presse, the letter sparked anger from Muslims who said their religion was being unfairly “put on trial.”
Unsurprisingly, there was the usual display of victimhood. The signatories were “blaming a whole religion for the actions of an extremist minority.”
It wasn’t an “extremist minority” that drove 50,000 Jews out of their homes in the Parisian region because of physical threats to them and their children from Muslims. Large numbers of neighborhood Muslims had to have made threats or approved of the climate of fear to drive away 50,000 people. “French Muslim community blasts anti-Semitism letter as attack on Islam,” AFP, April 24, 2018:
“The only thing we can agree on is that we must all unite against anti-Semitism,” said Ahmet Ogras, head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith umbrella group.
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris (a man paid by the French state, and always held up as the very model of a moderate Muslim), said the manifesto “subjected French Muslims and French Islam to an unbelievable and unfair trial.”
“It creates a clear risk of pitching religious communities against one another,” he said in a statement.
Notice that Dalil Boubakeur does not take issue, because he can’t, with any of the claims made about the persecution and murder of Jews in France. There has not been, to date, any Muslim outcry over these 11 murders, nor any attempt to express solidarity with the 50,000 Jews who to date have been are being driven from their homes out of fear of Muslims. Why not? Why didn’t any Muslims think they had a responsibility to say something? And now that something has been said, but by the French themselves, how dare these prominent Muslims attack, not antisemitic Muslim murderers and neighborhood bullies, but the defenders of the Jews who have just stepped forward? Why is it that the lonely handful of imams who signed this manifesto, and who have expressed true solidarity with Jews and Christians, have for this been ostracized and threatened by other Muslims, so that they now require round-the-clock security?
But Tareq Oubrou, imam of the Grand Mosque of the southern city of the Bordeaux, pointed out that Islam was not the only religion whose ancient holy texts contain anachronistic passages.
“Any number of holy texts are violent, even the Gospel,” Oubrou said, adding that the signatories, who also included celebrities like actor Gerard Depardieu, had misinterpreted the Koran.
The Tu-Quoque is becoming comical. The Gospel’s “violent” texts describe behavior thousands of years ago, and do not prescribe such behavior for all time. The Qur’an’s verses commanding hatred of, and violence against, Infidels, on the other hand, are prescriptive, as valid now as they were 1400 years ago.
The writer Pascal Bruckner, among those who signed the letter, told France Inter radio it had not been intended “to stigmatise but to spur on the goodwill of reformist Muslims.”
Just how many “reformist Muslims” there are in France, beyond the five imams who signed the manifesto, will soon be apparent. I think Pascal Bruckner is going to be very disappointed.
The letter said that since 2006, “11 Jews have been assassinated — and some tortured — by radical Islamists because they were Jewish”.
The latest attack rocked France last month when two perpetrators stabbed an 85-year-old Jewish woman 11 times before setting her body on fire, in a crime treated as anti-Semitic.
Officially, the number of anti-Semitic crimes fell in France in 2017 for a third year running, according to the interior ministry, down seven percent.
But Jews are the target of about a third of France’s recorded hate crimes despite making up only about 0.7 percent of the population.
The half-a-million-plus Jewish community is the largest in Europe but has been hit by a wave of emigration to Israel in the past two decades, partly due to antisemitism.
This manifesto may represent a watershed. Truths have been told that cannot be un-told: that not the Muslims, but the Jews, are the “new Jews”; that Jews in France are 25 times as likely as Muslims to be the victims of attack; that Muslim antisemitism is virulent and is based on the clear meaning of many Qur’anic verses. Those verses, which preach hatred of Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims, have to be rendered “obsolete,” the manifesto declares, if France is to remain France. In France, the large-scale presence of Muslims has created a country that is now, for the French and for other, non-Muslim immigrants, much more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than it would be without that presence. Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls memorably said that “France without its Jews would be unthinkable.” But just how unthinkable would France be without its Muslims? Or, to put it more acceptably, at least without those Muslims — a great many, alas — who refuse to treat as “obsolete” the Qur’anic verses that preach murder and persecution “of Jews, Christians, and disbelievers”?
jihad3tracker says
DID YOU SEE THE REMARKS BY TRUMP + MACRON AT THE WHITE HOUSE EARLIER TODAY (4/24) ?
Apparently a solid cordial relationship of mutual respect, which augurs well for pushback against jihad in Europe, and the its migrant inundation.
Plus, Monsieur Macron’s wife is just as hot as the President’s babe !
DBM echo says
re: your last sentence,
Your local optometrist probably has evening hours.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO DBM —
I got that opinion from my German Shepherd guide dog, so HE is going for a “Bark if you can read this” check up soon.
WPM says
That’s Marcon,s wife ,I though it was his mother!
j_not_a says
@WPM DBM – Hello, the fifties called and want’s its’ sexism back. If it was the other way around with the Macrons (He was mid sixties and she was late thirties) nobody would bat an eyelash, including you two. If they are in love and happy, what’s it to you or anybody else?
gravenimage says
Yes–I have no problem with this.
Frank Anderson says
GI, I have been told by a preacher who helps people recover from divorce that statistics show that an age difference of 7 years or less in either direction makes no difference in the rate of failure of the marriage. For some reason I have preferred ladies who have more experience and maturity. It helps us understand each other. I do not claim to be a “representative sample”. I have seen a lot of highly successful couples who have more important things to consider than a few years.
Anne Smith says
You may think she is hot – most people in UK think she looks more like a half starved Simian.
Jimbo says
On a more serious note:
1. Given that today (Wednesday 4/25/18) is Macon’s last day here, will any of our media reps ask Macron before he leave what does he think of this manifesto? Trump, too, should be asked his opinion.
2. Will a like-minded group of Americans sign a similar manifesto here and publish it in the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.? After all, don’t the number of Jewish hate crimes far exceed the number of Muslim hate crimes in the U.S.?
Charles says
Instead of competing in the low class sexist asinine remarks some posters should focus on what is important in this news item: it is the working class Jews and other proletarians who are tortured by Mohamedism. The wealthy -Jews or others- are safe in cushy neighbourhoods protected by body guards. By the way is Macron not Jewish?
j_not_a says
Agreed. France as a nation has bigger fish to fry. It has the biggest muslim to French native population percentage than any other European country. This does not bode well for them in the immediate time frame. They seem to be floundering as to how to deal with the “refugee” population in the major cities setting up flop housing type encampments in the streets causing not only increasing crime problems such as littering, pickpocketing, menacing and harrasing French people going about their daily business, blocking streets for their “prayers”, assault, the annual summer “carbeques that usually culminate in riots, all of which, obviously devastate the French tourist trade and peoples’ livelihood, to the worst, people loosing their lives in frequent islamic terror attacks.
It seems the French might finally be admitting that ignoring the problems of the burgeoning, shiftless, uneducated, mostly young male muslim population is not an effective solution after all. Well, pardonez moi my crappy french but quelle surprise.
Terry Gain says
Just as hot? Not even close.
Carolyne says
I was sort of disappointed in Mrs. Macron. She was not as well dressed as one would expect from the wife of the President of France. (Or whatever his title is. Mrs. Trump, as usual, looked stunning.
j_not_a says
Ok, I can’t resist one more comment on Ms. Macron and then I’m done. She does have a nice, svelte figure. However, I suspect, from what I see she is most likely a fairly heavy smoker and likes to sunbathe, the two worst habits a woman can indulge in if she wishes to keep a youthful appearance.
Tony Holland says
Granny Macron?,you are of course ‘avin a larf’
JM says
Of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, 15 percent (a very conservative estimate) support, condone, or engage in violence against non-Muslims.
But heck, why impugn one of the world’s great faiths because of a few hundred million bad apples?
Richard says
It must also be remembered that Muslims can honestly say they are not Ant-Semitic because Arab Muslims, like Jews are Semites. They can use this to honestly deny being Anti-Semitic, though many (hopefully not most) would gladly kill every Jew they can, for by doing so they feel they are doing the work of God. That will never change. The inane idea that the Qur’an can be updated to get rid of anti-Semitism and other horrors is a pipe dream. Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the word of God, so it could never be updated or changed in any way. Sadly, it is literally us or them.
Emilie Green says
“Finally, the manifesto calls for verses of the Koran calling for the ‘murder and punishment of Jews, Christians and disbelievers’ to be removed on the grounds that they are ‘obsolete.'”
But of course they’re not “obsolete.” They’re as vibrant, forceful, and applicable today as they were when Big Mo put them into his perfect book; and they’re there for Muslims to follow. And since it’s the perfect book, removing parts would be as unIslamic as adding to it.
Bill says
Next week they will call for purging of verses from the Bible. This is also about crushing religion and promoting Godless secularism as the “religion” of any socialist state.. Up to this point though the left has been a willing ally to Islamic Jihad. Perhaps that is changing. Perhaps. When Christians are killed in Jihad, as they often are, not one of these elites will shed a tear let alone sign a letter.
I call them all hypocrites and all of this will amount to nothing.
gravenimage says
You you think that calling out Islamic antisemitism is “Godless secularism”?
What do you consider ‘Godly’ about homicidal hatred of Jewish people?
George Williams says
Precisely. The response to this ought to be very revealing to all. What could possibly be their defense. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of Islam in France or even Europe.
J D S says
It will take laws passed to address the fallacies in Islam…but there no politicians who are not held by FEAR.
Rarely says
A breath of fresh air.
Reactions to this “manifesto” will certainly be interesting and instructive.
mortimer says
Quote: “More than 300 French dignitaries and stars, including ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and actor Gérard Depardieu, have signed a manifesto denouncing a “new antisemitism” marked by “Islamist radicalisation”, following a string of killings of Jews.”
That is more than ‘a breath of fresh air’. IT IS A MANIFESTO AGAINST ISLAM per se.
The grand imam of Paris was not wrong: IT IS AN INDICTMENT OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM WHICH MANDATES HATRED OF JEWS and HATRED OF ALL KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.
IQ al Rassooli says
The most lethal way to destroy the LIES of the Muslim Imams is for a few TV and radio stations in France who truly believe in their French hood to literally recite prime time TV verses from chapter 2 to chapters 9 (no need for the other 105 chapters) to show French people and Muslims how ‘peaceful’ Islam is
The programmers should also be prepared to counter the instant allegations from Muslims that these verses ‘are being taken out of context’ by showing withing these eight chapters that there is NO CONTEXT anywhere in the whole of Muhammad’s Quran
Such a program or a series thereof would open the minds of even the comatose
No doubt in my mind that there are not enough morally and intellectually BRAVE Frenchmen to do so
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Greg Taylor says
I think adding some particularly fruity stories from the Sira would make a just dessert.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep.
The story of the assassinations of Asma bint Marwan, Abu Afak, and Kab bin Ashraf (the last-named being Jewish, a very elderly man; the first two being pagans).
Mohammed’s approval of those assassinations could be described, along with a reminder that *all* pious mohammedans view Mohammed’s *every* deed and word as a permanently-valid model for attitude and action.
And the story of Mohammed’s attack on the Khaybar Oasis, full of peaceful Jewish farmers; the killing of most of the men, especially the torturous murder of Kinana; and mohammed’s rape, that very same night, of seventeen-year-old Safiyya. And the commentator could remark, “Next time, ladies and gentlemen, that some mohammedan dawa artist, with a smile as false as hell, sweetly informs you that mohammed just loooooved Jews, because, see, he had a Jewish wife, then you can cite the verses from Ibn Ishaq that tell the world how Mohammed *got* that Jewish ‘wife’ – by seizing her as a war captive after murdering her husband and most of her male kin.” One could throw in the story of Mohammed’s other Jewish rape victim, Rayhana, who became his sex slave, a concubine rather than a “wife’ (sic) (though the distinction, in Islam, between ‘sex slave/ concubine” and “wife” seems to be rather fuzzy). And one could also inform the audience about the ‘Khaybar’ chant that is much beloved of Muslims when threatening the Jewish state of Israel: “Next time you hear Muslims, any Muslims, anywhere, referencing this chant, bear in mind that the Muslims are threatening – and fully intend and desire – to do to the Jewish state of Israel what mohammed and his bandits did to the defenceless Jewish farmers of the Khaybar oasis”.
gravenimage says
Fine post, DDA.
Mark Mulakush says
RE: “It appears that France’s elite is coming to its senses on the subject of Islamic antisemitism.”
They should also come to senses on Islamic anti-( fill your own) ism.
They should also remember that deception (taqiyya) is sanctioned in that religion Accommodation by Islam (if any) has to be accepted after plenty of inquiry and grudgingly at that,
WPM says
The trouble IQ al Rassooli
Is the western MSM are a bunch of cowardly appeasing bedwetters who if they buck and tip over the PC apple cart will not be treated to hangout with their PC friends at parties. The so called moderate Moslems are all ready pulling the so call “race” card instead of coming out and saying anti Jewish attacks by Moslems caused this.
Frank Anderson says
I suggest that the 300 people, however notable, who signed this letter are not representative of the whole of French leadership. Claiming that they are, without a shred of polling or any support, is an extreme of wishful thinking, or “delusion of reprieve”. Wait until there are millions of signatures, or more impressive, positive actions taken to prevent the conquest of the country by barbaric, parasitic invaders.
Misleading the undecided and uninformed with statements that all of France now sees the problem only gives a continuing excuse to ignore the problem instead of becoming aware and making decisions that could save lives.
Tony Holland says
the Frogs have never ‘seen’ the problem,they have the highest concentration of subhumans in Europe,the major conorbations are a breeding ground of jihadi subturds which are left unchallenged by the trembling leftbank elite,the general populace has had the answer under their collective snouts for decades but have been too fearful to grab it because of apathy and PC propoganda,—MARINE Le PEN loves her country to distraction and would destroy the mussie turdfarms within 5 years,she would sweep the once beautiful city of Paris clean and return it to the ‘city of love’.
Georg says
Great article.
“It creates a clear risk of pitching religious communities against one another,” [The Koranic adherent] said without a hint of irony, shame, or self-awareness.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep.
Because that very same Mohammedan knows damn well that his cult splits the world into dar al Islam and dar al harb and that the inhabitants of dar al Islam – the ummah, the allah gang, the mohammedan mob – are *required* to wage ceaseless and total war upon the dar al harb until the latter is completely destroyed, all its inhabitants either dead, or forced to become Muslims, or forced into near-slave dhimmi status, humiliated, degraded, exploited, and in constant fear for their lives.
Wellington says
Bottom line: Christian Antisemitism is barely or not at all rooted in the New Testament. By contrast, rank, putrid Islamic Antisemitism is all over the place in the Koran (examples to be found in Suras 2, 5, 7 and 98). Moreover, in today’s world no Christian, even the most ignorant and limited, think Jews should be killed for not becoming Christian (or even for criticizing Christianity). Contra, big time, respecting Muslims aplenty (in the hundreds of millions I would estimate) who want Jews annihilated (N.B., many Muslims deny the Holocaust but yet want another one—-simply can’t make this stuff up) who do not see that Islam is the true faith or are not ready to be full-fledged dhimmis.
Moreover, Christians in huge numbers are pro-Israel, actually just about the best friends Israel has in all the world. Of how many Muslims could this be said? And even Christians who are tepid on Israel, with extremely few exceptions, if any, don’t want Israel destroyed. Yet hundreds of millions of Muslims, perhaps even a billion, would delight in the extinction of Israel.
Islam is sick in sundry ways. I above have “merely” mentioned a handful of such ways.
Have Islam? Then you have hate. Of Jews. Of Christians. Of Hindus. Of Buddhists. Of those who admire pictorial art. Of those who admire great music. Of those who cherish freedom. Of those who are for true women’s rights. Of those who are for a true Golden Rule for all. Of those who are for full equality under the law. Of those…. Of those…. Of those…. Oh yeah, quite the “legacy” Islam has stored up. Quite the legacy.
dumbledoresarmy says
You forgot the Islamic hate for dogs, humanity’s ancient ally and companion.
gravenimage says
+1
Granddaddy says
“Any number of holy texts are violent, even the Gospel,” Oubrou said.
What violent verses? Where does Jesus tell His followers to “kill them wherever you find them” or “chop off their hands and feet on opposite sites” or “I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers”? Where does Buddha say such things? Krishna? Confucius? Lao-Tzu? If they’re going to say such things, not just about Jesus but about “any number of holy texts”, you would think they could at least give an example, there being so much of it, as they say. But they never do. And that’s because it’s a lie. And they say it because Islam allows them to lie. It’s in the Sharia, it’s in the Quran, it’s in the Hadith.
So what good does it do to talk to these people? So “five imams who have been outspoken “reformers”” sign a paper. So what? Islam refuses to reform. They’ve had 1400 years to reform and it has yet to happen, but all of a sudden now they’re going to reform? Islam refuses to integrate. They’ve had 1400 years to integrate and it has yet to happen, but all of a sudden now they’re going to integrate? Here’s what they do: hate. They love to hate. It’s what they do best, it’s what they’re taught to do from childhood, and you don’t have to wait 1400 years for it to happen.
Not one word they say can be trusted. It’s all taqiyya. This “manifesto” means nothing to them.
gravenimage says
Good post.
warren raymond says
No. France has not come to its senses. France is gone.
A manifesto written by a few intellectuals & signed by a few celebrities doesn’t mean France is changing in any way. The Mohammedan occupation is real and from here on, nothing will change without the use of arms.
“… the manifesto calls for verses of the Koran calling for the ‘murder and punishment of Jews, Christians and disbelievers’ to be removed on the grounds that they are ‘obsolete.’”
No Muslim, no cleric ever called them “obsolete”. In fact, these verses are the essence of Islam. The annihilation of the other is Islam pure. There isn’t any other Islam, that’s it!
Matthieu Baudin says
‘…It wasn’t an “extremist minority” that drove 50,000 Jews out of their homes in the Parisian region because of physical threats to them and their children from Muslims. Large numbers of neighbourhood Muslims had to have made threats or approved of the climate of fear to drive away 50,000 people…’
The problem is Traditional Islam; traditional Islamic prejudices held in place and acted upon by far too many observant Muslims concentrated into several districts within France. Three steps can be taken without further delay (1) place an almost total ten year block on Muslim migration into the country (2) Provide financial incentives to Muslims who wish to return permanently to live in overseas destinations (3) Deport or imprison all Jihadist supremacist law breakers for extended periods.
eduardo odraude says
Good that they trace the problem right to the core: the Qur’an.
Georg says
Agreed. About time there’s an inkling of mainstream consensus that terror isn’t the only danger with Islam.
sidney penny says
“how dare these prominent Muslims attack, not antisemitic Muslim murderers and neighborhood bullies, but the defenders of the Jews who have just stepped forward?’
Best part of the article.
jewdog says
If present trends continue, most of western Europe will be predominantly Muslim by mid-century, and then it will not only be the Jews who have to leave.
Richard Courtemanche says
If it had to be published by a former editor of Charlie Hebdo, I wouldn’t say that France has come to its senses yet.
Thomas Brewster says
As long as the French keep voting for idiots, nothing will ever change… Only zero immigration and the prohibition of traditional “Islam” as the murderous crime organisation that it really is will give Europe a fighting chance.
Terry Gain says
As reported by Agence France-Presse, the letter sparked anger from Muslims who said their religion was being unfairly “put on trial.”
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Islam should not be put on trial. The evidence that Islam is evil is so overwhelming a trial is not necessary.
I like that the Manifesto calls for the removal certain Suras. This should take place at a ceremony in the public square where all pages that contain hateful Suras should be read and then ripped out and burned.
Sharon Klaff says
Blogged here in a different sort of a way http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/whats-it-all-about-alfie/
At least in France they finally reacted. In the UK there’s nothing of the sort as doctrines are spread in a rolling programme. https://campaign4truthblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/golders-green-hippodrome/
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Manifesto On Islamic Antisemitism Shows the France That Has Come to Its Senses
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This is good to hear!
But of course Muslims will not denounce Islamic antisemitism–what could be more Islamic?