Posted on 06/06/2004 10:34:55 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
PARIS – A Jewish teenager was stabbed in the chest by a man crying "God is great" in Arabic, officials said.
The 17-year-old victim, who was not identified, was attacked Friday afternoon as he left a Jewish school in Epinay-sur-Seine, north of Paris in the rough Seine-Saint-Denis district, said local officials on condition of anonymity.
The victim was taken to a hospital in serious condition, and the attacker fled. Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the site where the attack occurred.
Witnesses said a man shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) then plunged a knife into the young man before fleeing.
The victim's injuries were not life-threatening, said Gilles Taieb, a spokesman for the Jewish Consistoire, which directs Jewish religious life.
Last Sunday, the 17-year-old son of a rabbi was attacked by a group of young men as he was about to enter his home in suburban Paris. The group of young hit the son of rabbi Victor Bellahcem, while yelling anti-Semitic insults.
That attack came hours after a fire was set in front of the Strasbourg home of the Muslim representative of the eastern region of Alsace, Aziz el Alaouani. Racist and Nazi graffiti was scrawled on the walls of his home.
President Jacques Chirac condemned the latest attack.
"Tolerance is the cement of our national community," a statement issued by the presidential office said.
Anti-Semitic attacks have been on the rise in France despite a series of measures put in place to counter them. The Interior Ministry has reported 67 anti-Semitic acts in the first quarter of 2004, a 60-percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
Ping
Kent, when, when, WHEN will you listen.
It's A Religion o' Peace.
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
Yeah. I keep forgetting that. :)
"Tolerance is the cement of our national community"
No tolerance for the sake of tolerance is the poison that will tear the western world apart.
I wish reporters would stop translating Allahu to God. We all know who Allah is, and he is not God.
No its your damned quicksand.
Excessive heat is your plan for the elderly.
Your Muslim community is a potential timebomb.
Kudos
That'a some profile page!
Me too
In America, just another democrat voter.
Allahu is a schmuck
If they really believe this, they are in for a rude awakening. The sort of "tolerance" he is gushing about has about as much cement in it as a wheelbarrow full of snot.
To Liberals, "tolerance" means a license to pander to the favored some and be bigoted toward the unfavored others, while using the force of law to enforce their personal preferences on all.
They will soon find out that to Muslims "tolerance" means requiring all others to convert to Islam, or else, and destroying any opposition to Allah!
"Tolerance is the cement of our national community," a statement issued by the presidential office said.
When is this PC crap going to end?
When will anyone add, "but we will not be tolerant of those who are not tolerant of us"?
And what's so great about tolerance anyway?
Psalm 15:
1 A Psalm of David. L-rd, who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell upon Thy holy mountain?Why must I now be tolerant of vile people?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh truth in his heart;
3 That hath no slander upon his tongue, nor doeth evil to his fellow, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;
4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that fear the L-rd; he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
5 He that putteth not out his money on interest, nor taketh a bribe against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
ML/NJ
Allah was Mohammad's sock puppet.
Ain't diversity great?
"Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the site where the attack occurred."
I am assuming that will be the extent of the French Governments involvement in the issue.
Don't want to upset The moon-worshipping savages.
Connect the dots. Anti-semitism on the rise while the muslim population flourishes. Goodbye France, we knew you once. Now to follow Egypt, Syria, and a slew of other countries into islamic sharia.
...intending to surrender to the attacker.
Thank you. FR has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me especially the intelligence of nearly everyone on the board. It has helped me work out my thinking, demons and have fun.
This is upsetting. I remember about 30 years ago that the French were constantly dealing with car bombings by Arab terrorists. My naive little mind had no idea of what was going on, of course the media did not tell us either other than another bombing had happened. My Sorbonne trained high school French teacher said that the French had no prejudice except toward Arabs. Why aren't the French kicking some Arab a**?
Where's the Jewish Defense League when you need them?
too busy condemning Christmas and Christians in general .....
afterall, its more of an affront to Jews to have the nativity displayed than to have their fellow Jews stabbed by fanatical Islamists....
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