And now Stella and her family talk about moving to Israel, giving up their French lives, worrying about what France will be like for their children. The Muslims have won, they are indeed managing to terrorize these inoffensive people, and many others, too. “I have been made victorious through terror,” Muhammad claims in a famous Hadith. They are merely emulating him, the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct. Stella doesn’t want to leave. She has 23 years of seniority at her job; if she moves to Israel, all that seniority will be lost. Besides, France is their home. It is where all their relatives and friends live. It is where they grew up, were educated, started a family. They had many happy years living in Paris, without any troubles. One does not easily leave all that. But now many Muslims have arrived, and staked their territorial claim. This is now their neighborhood. No Jews should be expected to be safe, not here, not anymore. They find the Jewish families and target them: houses invaded, cars vandalized. They make sure the antisemitic nature of these attacks is clear; “JUIFS,” they scrawl, and “ISRAEL,” on the family car. They want the Jews to leave.
In France, Jews are now afraid to wear their yarmulkes in public, for fear of being attacked. “You can’t walk in Paris wearing a yarmulke. You’re taking your life in your hands,” says Steve Eisenberg, co-founder of the Jewish International Connection of New York. Cries of “Sale Juif” — “Dirty Jew” — can be heard in the Metro directed at anyone who “looks Jewish.” Ilan Halimi was kidnapped, tortured over several weeks, and finally murdered by a Muslim gang. Four Jews were killed in cold blood at a kosher grocery. A rabbi and three small children — two of them his, shot in front of him before he too was killed — were murdered outside a Jewish school in Toulouse. An 8-year-old boy was beaten to the ground outside his Jewish day school in Sarcelles, and a 15-year-old girl wearing a Jewish school uniform was slashed across the face by an unknown man. An 85-year-old Jewish woman was stabbed eleven times and set on fire by her Muslim neighbor’s son, who had known her all his life and been befriended by her. Another elderly Jewish woman, Sara Halimi, was beaten and thrown out a window to her death by a young Muslim neighbor yelling “Allahu akbar.”
On January 9, 2018, fires roared through two kosher Paris markets, weeks after swastikas were painted on both stores. January 9 was the third anniversary of the Hyper Cacher supermarket massacre in Paris. Two yarmulke-wearing Jewish brothers were attacked in a Paris suburb by Muslims wielding a hacksaw.
As this rash of anti-Semitic attacks — I’ve merely given a handful of examples above — almost all at the hands of Muslims, has hit France, many Jews are fleeing. The United States is, after Israel, their main destination.
In France, the third-largest Jewish community in the world, after Israel and the United States, is under terrific stress. More than 60,000 Jews have left France since 2000. The number of antisemitic attacks increased by 69% in the first eight months of 2018 over the same period a year earlier.
What could be done to make Jews feel more secure? The police could establish more units dedicated solely to protecting Jews in areas where Muslims have been threatening, or attacking, Jews. Penalties for antisemitic crimes should be increased. They should be treated as a special category of hate crime. They should be judged in the context of recent history. Hate crimes against Jews bespeak eliminationism, a genocidal impulse. The French state should make it a priority to have undercover policemen and policewomen dressed as Jews, with everything from a simple yarmulke to the full garb of an Orthodox Jew for a policeman, and Orthodox wigs for policewomen. These people could patrol the streets in the neighborhoods where Jews feel most threatened, and ride, too, in the metro. They could be furnished with other identifying marks: a Hebrew-language newspaper, an Israeli book, a Star-of-David on a silver chain. Anything that might serve as a come-hither prop to attract Muslim toughs who would discover, much to their chagrin, that the unarmed Jew they thought they were attacking turned out to be a policeman with a gun.
But there has to be, as well, an understanding that the more Muslims there are, the more antisemitic acts there will be. Antisemitism is too much a part of Islam. What can France — or other European countries — do, aside from better policing? Will they monitor all the mosques, to make sure that antisemitism is not a part of the imams’ sermons? Will they promptly close any mosque where such anti-Jewish sentiments are expressed? These countries have insufficiently recognized the fear felt by their Jewish populations. Their governments should be making Muslim antisemitism the subject of constant public discussion, spoken about on every conceivable occasion, and not only just after there has been an antisemitic attack. Do they really want the Jews in their countries to be driven out by a Muslim population that, in contrast to the Jews, has contributed so very little to the general welfare? And is it fair to Europe’s Jews to allow so many Muslims into Europe, knowing that they are carriers of the virus of antisemitism? The German designer Kurt Lagerfeld summed up the situation most succinctly in addressing his own country: “You cannot kill millions of Jews and then take in millions of their worst enemies afterwards, even if there are decades [between the two events].”
Buraq says
Got a terrorist problem? “Cherchez l’islam” as the French might well say!
Frank Anderson says
I ask those who think fighting whenever the opportunity exists in order to “show” determination to resist to think about the alternative approach to pick the time and place where resistance is not futile. The most graphic example to me is trying to resist Hitler after he was appointed Chancellor. Elections, such as they were after he was given power, were shams. Citizens’ rights were a joke; and the police protected the criminals. Every act of resistance simply triggered more atrocities until finally Europe was invaded by the Allies and Nazism was “suspended” until the present. (At least in the part of Europe NOT occupied by the Soviet Union).
Whether playing a game, or trying to live a secure and peaceful life, There is a time to stand and a time to run until standing is not suicidal. I write from personal experience. When, as in France. Sweden, Germany. . . ., there is no reasonable way to live in peace and safety, it is time to get OUT and work for the day of change. Remember General Patton, “No poor dumb bastard ever served his country by dying for it; He served his country by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his!”.
lebel says
“In France, Jews are now afraid to wear their yarmulkes in public, for fear of being attacked. “
Not exactly true and here is the evidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K765QiTrq5Q
Note: I know no one on jihadwatch cares about evidence that does not confirm their pre-established opinion but this is not for you, it’s or lurkers and people who can think critically.
Wellington says
First of all, lebel, the video you provided a link to was shot in 2015, some four years ago. If you bothered to read the article above, it pointed out that antisemitic attacks increased almost 70% in the first eight months of 2018 compared to the same time period the previous year. So matters just keep getting worse.
Also, just because some Jews might still wear a yarmulke in France in public does not mean that many Jews aren’t concerned about doing so compared to, say, thirty or forty years ago. Then there is the matter of the emigration of some 60,000 Jews from France since 2000. Think they’re just leaving for better economic opportunities or something along these lines? I think it overwhelmingly is for some OTHER reason.
I taught a French Jewish woman here in America about twenty years ago and when I complimented her on the Star of David necklace she was wearing she thanked me and then said that she wouldn’t dare wear it in public back in France. Now, I know France has a history of antisemitism independent of any Muslim harassment but I also know it has gotten much worse in the past twenty-five years and I think this is overwhelmingly due to a greater Muslim presence in France. Sweden, where antisemitism was virtually non-existent until Muslims started coming into that country, now has a major problem with antisemitism due almost exclusively to the increasing Muslim presence there.
Islam despises Jews and one knows this or should know it. It’s all over the place in the Islamic texts (examples to be found in Suras 2, 5 and 7 of the Koran). Any antisemitism that used to exist in the West, and sometimes it was extensive, has now practically disappeared but for one reason—Muslims. One knows this or should know it. You either don’t, in which case you are deeply ignorant, or you do, in which case you are being mendacious.
Your attempts to whitewash Islam and discredit this site are both pathetic. Islam is a menace to mankind in sundry ways that no other major religion remotely is. And remember, it’s not just about jihad. It is also about death for apostasy, no true Golden Rule for all, non-Muslims being pure second-class citizens wherever Islam dominates, the condoning of rape as found, for example, in Suras 4, 23, 33 and 70, control-freak behavior ad nauseam (we devout Muslims don’t eat pork or drink alcohol so you can’t either), the obnoxious entitlement mentality of Muslims (Sura 3:110—the “best of peoples” and other rot along these lines), death or at least severe bodily punishment for any criticism of Islam, Mohammed or the Koran, et al. Yeah, lebel, jihad is repulsive but so is a lot of other crap that can be found in the worst religion of all time. Done here for now.
lebel says
“Also, just because some Jews might still wear a yarmulke in France in public does not mean that many Jews aren’t concerned about doing so compared to, say, thirty or forty years ago. Then there is the matter of the emigration of some 60,000 Jews from France since 2000. Think they’re just leaving for better economic opportunities or something along these lines? I think it overwhelmingly is for some OTHER reason. ”
I think anti-semitism is one reason for Aliyah but not the only one. Don;t forget that the jewish agency actively encourages jews to migrate to Israel. I do not believe that the situation is as dire as is made out to be on jihadwatch and have provided evidence.
Also some of the 60,000 actually returned during the same period, showing that decision making is not linear. Souce: http://www.terredisrael.com/infos/le-chiffre-de-lalya-des-juifs-de-france-ne-decolle-pas/
The rest of your message is the typical “Islam is evil, evil, evil” which makes for pretty useless debates since you are absolutely convinced that you can;t be wrong.
Hector Archytas says
The god of the Torah is the devil himself and by consequence the one of the Koran. His religions are so evil except in the part corrupt by humans. The Koran is uncorrupted by human so pure evil and the religion of teh Koran is pure evil.
It has become rare for Jews to dress like Jews in my 20th borough.
It is pretty obvious.
don vito says
What is your video suppose to show? By its date, the video is not sufficiently current. The evidence you provide is flawed.
Wellington says
I can no more be wrong, lebel, about Islam being iniquitous than I can be wrong about Marxism and Nazism being iniquitous. My God, lebel, jihad aside, the death for apostasy mandate, which every major school of Islamic theology, Sunni or Shiite, to this day upholds, is alone enough to properly characterize Islam as evil. When you throw in all the other Islamic garbage like the condoning of rape and severe punishment or death for any criticism of Islam, the Koran or Mohammed, the case for Islam being the one major religion that is malevolent and a mortal enemy of liberty is overwhelming.
I wonder why so many like you can’t see this. Know full well that making excuses for Islam is, for me, the same as making excuses for Marxism or Nazism. But lebel, why not try to convince me that I am wrong? Why give up so easily? Start with death for apostasy and explain to me how this is not evil even though it is the teaching of mainstream Islam to this very day.
Colleen says
Wellington is 100% correct. You Muslims aren’t fooling anyone with your whitewashing and your taqiyya.
Indiana Tom says
This article seems Islamophobic to me. Probably just another giant magical Zionist Jihad Watch plot to persecute the poor Muslims. Everyone knows how peaceful and productive the new immigrants are. Uh huh.
If you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything.
FYI says
See aish.com
If you need evidence….from Jews themselves,not biased leftwing news reports that wish to hide the reality..
“The dangers of being a Jew in France today” Apr 23 2018 by Dr Yvette Alt Miller
“You can no longer wear a kippah on the streets”says Ilan Schreiber,a Paris resident..
lebel says
“I wonder why so many like you can’t see this. Know full well that making excuses for Islam is, for me, the same as making excuses for Marxism or Nazism. But lebel, why not try to convince me that I am wrong? Why give up so easily? Start with death for apostasy and explain to me how this is not evil even though it is the teaching of mainstream Islam to this very day.”
All right Wellington I’ll bite My opinion is that the punishment for apostacy is comparable to the modern crime of treason. In other words, leaving Islam by itself does not consistute sufficient grounds for punishment. I think I am on pretty good ground here and can bring proof and evidence from scholars such as qaradawi as well as historical proof (and of course the fact that there is no mention of an earthly punishment for apostacy in the qu’ran). So I don’t think that’s evil.
There is one complication here however and that even under this interpretation the the apostate can still be punished if he encourages others to do the same. This is more difficult to defend in a modern setting but a thought experiment may be useful here: If Wellington was in charge and he made Islam illegal (as an evil ideology on par with or worse than nazism), would there not be punishment for those seeking to spread this evil?
Please no lectures about freedom and the American way etc, this is a thought experiment.
Wellington says
First of all, lebel, I have innumerable times here at JW argued that Islam should NOT be illegal in America. In fact, I have been criticized by some for stating this (e.g., by Terry Gain). I no more want Islam made illegal than I do Nazism or Marxism. Let all of these warped ideologies be legal but also let all of them be exposed to massive criticism and ridicule so that only losers, the confused and the detritus of the human race find any merit in them.
What I want is Islam properly characterized, which is to say it is a religion BUT an evil religion (so is Satanism, which is also legal in America, though if only there were merely as many Muzzies as Satanists—but I digress). So again you have set up a straw man, which is very much your wont, and then knocked it down.
Let me restate all this so you don’t set up this particular straw man again: Islam should be legal in America, just as Nazism, Marxism, anarchism, the KKK, Satanism, etc. are, but clearly seen as malevolent, like the other warped ideologies or organizations I just named.
Second, I in no way consider death for apostasy, a major hallmark of the worst religion of all time, as comparable to state treason. It is ludicrous to assert such because religious belief should NEVER be mixed up with state security. But wait, since Islam does not want the separation of church (mosque) and state, then I can see how a foul creed like Islam, which detests such separation, would see apostasy as treason—but this functions as just one more reason to keep Muslims out of the West, so retrograde and contrary to Western principles is Mo’s creed.
As for the proof you potentially proffered that simply leaving Islam itself is not punishable under Islamic law, BRING IT ON. Perhaps you could, while doing so, explain Sura 4:89 and 9.84.57 from the Bukhari Hadith. Yeah, where are nuances in these passages? Particularly relating to Sura 4:89, and per your contention that there is no punishment laid out in Mein Korampf for a person “merely” giving up on Islam (invariably an ethical choice I might add), how can you assert what you did when said passage states: “Those who leave the way of Allah, seize them and kill them.”
Your turn, lebel. And we’re not just talking death for apostasy here. What about the condoning of rape by Islam? How about Sura 9:29 which betokens, as so much else does in the putrid faith which is Islam, that non-Muslims must “feel subdued?” And what of the whole matter of liberty per Islamthink? How do you square Islam with the First Amendment of the American Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion? Oh yeah, lebel, your turn.
lebel says
Lets start with death for apostasy. Here is a very recent ruling but scholars in Morocco with references so you can check for yourself. Sidenote, this was completely ignored by RS.
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/02/207505/moroccos-high-religious-committee-says-apostates-should-not-be-killed/
note for other jihadwatchers: Yes this is taqqiya and kitman and wala wal bara, go play somwhere else please
Jon Sobieski says
Well Hugh, what do you think of the accusation that so many French Jews, especially wealthy and affluent and political ones, are the #1 cheerleaders and the #political engine behind the muslim invasion? Just look at the Jews in the US. Overwhelmingly Democrat, open borders enthusiasts and islamophiles. The Jews in Minneapolis love, love their Somalis. Want more, want to pay for a Somali muslim history museum. (that last is true per Breitbadt article)
carpediadem says
Every single person responsible for the mass immigration of Muslims into France and Europe was and is a Christian.
Colleen says
Secular Europe? Christians are completely irrelevant in secular Europe nowadays. They have no influence on immigration policies.
Rufolino says
The admonishments of the Catholic Pope have certainly put wind in the sails of the immigration policies of Europe.
He preaches the ‘moral rectitude’ of these disastrous policies, and thus has contributed to them.
Rarely says
Your evidence for these despicable remarks please.
Frank Anderson says
In case you are not aware, my personal admiration for Judaism does not depend on what people who claim to be Jewish advocate. Leaving the company after 23 years of my local US Jewish community was reasonable in light of the general lack of appreciation of the danger islam has represented for 1400 years. The Pope is not alone in his murderous drive to surrender all non-muslims to muslim control. Approximately 75 percent of the US Jewish community deny the true teachings of islam and live in a land of denial, quite as described by Viktor Frankl as “The Delusion of Reprieve”. Surrender and collaboration are not solely based in any religious denomination or affiliation.
Please remember that suicide involves a person’s decision to end his life. Murder involves one person deciding to end the life of another.
James says
I doubt if there will be any measures against anti-Semitism, simply because there are so many Muslims, and politicians who dislike Jews are likely to get their votes in elections. There should be a stop in Muslim immigration and measures to stop attacks on Jews and their institutions. But that seems unlikely.
Colleen says
Muslims belong in the Middle East. They do not belong in Europe. They do not belong in Canada. They do not belong in the U.S. They do not want to assimilate to the culture of the country they move to. They expect that non-Muslim country to change for them. Their mosques need to be dismantled and they all need to be deported back to the Middle East where this mess started. Islam is not a religion. It is a political system filled with discriminatory policies and hatred and violence toward any people that do not think they way that they do. It is just a matter of time before another 9/11. Where will it be? And how many non-Muslims will be murdered?
Jehuda Ewert says
Well, not all of us can fo to Israel.To appease tge race based territorial claim of west syrians (since 4th june 1967 palestinians), many orthodix jews like myself got de-recognized.The same community I was working as Magiah ha kashrut for doesn’t give me an attaestation as being jewish. 2016 tge website for reporting ana antisemitic hate crime was closed for any furtger contributiins.2017 Macron referred to less antisemitic crimes.How far it goes: With tge assurance of loving Hitler for killing 6 million jews a ‘minor’ ( 6 foot, 200 pounds) whipped me with an iron chain.Surviving that I was accused of being the agressor.Despite two processes I couldnt be condamned as all evidence pointed to me being tge victim. Next week I’m again in court, hacinf to prrof tgat I didnt voluntary have an epileptic attack in order to denounce the poor 200 pound baby, that claimed also, that my dog (4month puppy at the time) had eaten him entirely.That is no joke, I havw tge script of tge testimonies.Any doctor I asked refused to state, that selfhitting by a violent epileptic attack without biting my own tongue and letting under me is impossible, as tget fear being Islamophob.Meanwhile to avoid islamophobia openly muslimophobia is supported: Honir killings, killinf of “hypocrites’, punushment for ralking to a jew and much more.How come? Unfortunately nationalism falls into the antisemitism trap (they only kill us because of rge jews, lets help), as this is less persecuted than using arguments.Poluce…? Better not, policemen refused ti guard synagogues, but kbowinf which kind of people dusguised in uniform, it’s only better.I moved from a ” totakly normal” street only a few blocks, and like magic I don’t get daily death threads. As the police told me that they are tired of “people like me” asking for human rights (recomandation: “you can live happy if you hide”) , I only called after each open deatb thread, at least chances are, a recording runs leaving some trace.Standard answer of the police at tge phone:” I don’t understand”.I cant go ro Israel, and I’m pretty sure what rge future brings. Last week french public was very concerned of swat-sticker paintings on a cementary.Because Europes heart goes out to dead jews.