Posted on 06/11/2004 7:09:53 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
About three months ago, the French Jewish (it is unfortunately important to mention her religion) singer Shirel was performing at a gala attended by, among others, France’s First Lady Mrs. Bernadette Chirac. Upon entering the stage and during her song, Shirel was welcomed by young Muslims sitting in the first rows yelling, “Dirty Jew. Death to the Jews. We’ll kill you.”
If this were not disgusting enough, the loud silence of Mrs Chirac speaks volumes about the condition of French Jews today. It is not then surprising that recent Court decisions confirm this increasing trend of official hostility to Jews.
Two judicial cases vividly symbolize this trend.
First: during a very popular program on State TV, on December 1, 2003, a famous stand-up comedian called Dieudonne decided it was time for a virulent anti-Semitic act. He came on stage disguised as a religious Jew wearing Army fatigues, saluting the Nazi way, and yelling ” Israel, Heil “. He was then, of course, sued, because France has tough laws, perhaps a vestigial remnant of an earlier era, against anti-Semitism.
But last week the verdict came in: ACQUITTED!
Second: a young Jewish kid was regularly beaten-up and insulted inside his school for months, by two Arab kids employing the ever so common epithet nowadays: ”Dirty Jew.” The two aggressors never denied the facts, and were expelled.
But in response, the two miscreants filed a lawsuit against the school.
And last week, the verdict came in, stunning those French citizens with residual decency once more. The Paris tribunal condemned the school, ordering it to reinstate the two Muslim kids, and pay each of their families 1,000 Euros (around 1,200 USD).
In another similar incident, Muslim students persecuted a young Jewish girl at school.
Her family sued the oppressors, and, in the bizarre world of French justice, got condemned to pay a fine of 4,000 Euros (about 5,000 USD). So, they decided to appeal the decision and the Court of Appeals deemed that a 8,000 Euros (about 10,000 USD) fine was more appropriate.
Being a Jewish victim turns out to be very costly in France: not only physically and morally, but also financially. Perpetrating anti-Semitic acts, on the other hand, can be very lucrative. So, what kind of message does this send?
Obviously, if you attack Jews or insult them, you are the victim and you get financial reward. In this environment, anti-Semitism in France is not going away. Quite the opposite.
Most often, French justice simply releases the culprits, rather than rewarding them – at least so far. A few months ago, at an ice rink in the Paris suburb of Boulogne, a group of Muslim teenagers beat up a Jewish kid. The police arrested them, but the judge decided to release them, ordering one of them, a 14 year-old, to write an essay about anti-Semitism. What a severe sentence!!!
Unfortunately, this is for real. Last week, Boulogne’s rabbi’s son was ambushed leaving his home by five Muslim teenagers, who attacked him very violently. A few days later, they were caught. Unsurprisingly, this same 14- year old from the previous incident was among them. Once again, the judge released the suspects right away…
Finally, regarding the young Jewish student, Israel Ifrah, who was stabbed last Friday in Paris by a Muslim aggressor yelling “Allah Akhbar” (“God is great” in Arabic), the excellent newsmagazine Proche-Orient.info reported that while at the hospital his family was spit-upon by two Arabs. Even though there were a lot of people around, nobody moved or said anything.
France is now the country of the cycle of silence: from the President’s wife to the common Frenchman.
The young Israeli’s father, deciding he had enough of France, went to the US Embassy in Paris to ask for political asylum.
Alain Finkielkraut, one of the leading French philosophers, interviewed on June 7, 2004 by the radio station RTL declared that: “The pogrom for the Jews” appears today in France like a possible future.”
There might come a time not far distant where French Jews might have no choice but to leave the country of their birth, in search of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
Ping
Just don't say anything bad about the Muslims...
I almost refuse to think this is true. Is there any other source of information regarding the cases this article cites?
There won't be any French left to liberate next time.
Remember Albert Dreyfus! But Forget France! France is already lost!
I think we should get them out now. Or at least start. Things in France will not get better, imo. Let France become what it wanted to be, a secular, hateful place as it has allowed itself to grow into. Let the Jews and Christians abandon France to its future calling, and let God look after France from now on.
These stories are disgusting. Move them all to Russia where it is becoming impossible for this kind of thing to happen. watch out art
Although it is horrible that these things happen, you have to put it into perspective.
1) What are the laws are they the same for everyone?
2) What where the reasons for some of the judges decisions, there is no information in the article.
3) Mentioning satire in the article is really idiotic. There is the same amount of satire about muslims and christians. It is rubbish to bring that up.
Nevertheless there seems to be a tendency of growing sentiments against jews.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Great example of oppressing freedom of speech you are quoting. Russia as the place of the free, I feeling sick right now.
No free newspapers,
no free television stations
and the last ctitical commentator of russion television has been fired.
Great news for freedom....
As Brigitte Bardot has recently learned...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1151200/posts
I hope the froggies enjoy learning to pray 5X/day to the black meteorite.
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>I almost refuse to think this is true. Is there any other
>source of information regarding the cases this article cites?
Unfortunately this is all too truth. In another two generations, France will be very close to being another successful franchisee of Allah's Snackbar.
There've been a number of reports of similar mild penalties which you could probably find through searchs, which are a little tough without names. The acquittal of Dieudonne was widely reported. The beating incident was also referenced in another thread today, Increase in Violence Worries French Jews. French Jews need to worry about the tolerance of violence in France every bit as much as the increase.
I admit I don't much like laws like these (though Europe may need them), but in this context I think you need to recognize it is a law, and view the acquittal in the context of the penalty for slandering non-Jewish dead, two years, Teacher jailed for making revisionist Nazi film .
No more US blood for European soil. Next time, forget 'em...
Almost. We'll fight with/for the Brits and the Poles. The rest can piss off.
Get back to me when you have been there.
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