Posted on 12/02/2015 8:42:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
These past weeks have been rife with the shameful opportunistic exploitation of the Holocaust by the media in support of Syrian Muslim migration to the United States. Editorials, cartoons and infographs clamor that a violently anti-Semitic group is somehow just like the Jews fleeing anti-Semitism.
But the picture appears very different in Europe where Jewish life is under siege by Muslim migrants.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the latest Paris Muslim terror attacks, had snuck in to the country with the so-called Syrian refugees. His targets had included Jewish areas. The previous Muslim terror attack on Charlie Hebdo had also singled out a Jewish supermarket before the Sabbath. That had been preceded by the Muslim terror attack on the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse.
Many Muslims in France consider Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who shot an 8-year-old Jewish girl at point blank range, a hero. After the school massacre, Jews in Marseille were mobbed by Muslim shouting, ""Vive Mohamed Merah, F— the Jews."
This summer in Paris, a Vanity Fair writer described hearing cries of "Death to the Jews" at anti-Israel protests "barely a mile and a half from the Galeries Lafayette, the heart of bourgeois Paris". Last summer, Roger Cukierman, head of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, warned, "They're shouting ‘Death to the Jews' and attacking synagogues."
Hundreds of Jews were trapped in the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue as outside a Muslim mob shouted, "Hitler was right!" and "Jews, get out of France!"
This is what Muslim immigration did to the Jews of France. This is what it has done to Brussels. This is what it will do to America.
In Brussels, the Chief Rabbi spoke of the community's anguish at the terrorist lockdown, "Since Shabbat the city has been paralyzed. The synagogues were closed, something which has not happened since World War Two. People are praying alone… we live in fear."
"People understand there is no future for Jews in Europe," he said.
Who took away that future? Muslim immigration did.
Jews in Belgium have been under attack by Muslims for decades. In 1980, a Syrian Muslim threw two grenades at Jewish campers in Antwerp waiting for a bus killing David Kohane, a 15-year-old boy, and wounding dozens of adults and children. His funeral took place under the watch of sharpshooters.
Janine Pollak, a pregnant camp counselor, was among the wounded. 13-year-old Joshua Erblich was hospitalized with shrapnel in his brain.
When the Muslim attacker was arrested, he asked police, "Why do you detain me? I did nothing to Belgians. I only hit Jews."
While American Jewish organizations cheer on Syrian migrants, European Jews are deeply worried.
The head of Vienna's Jewish community asked for a refugee slowdown and warned that the influx of Syrian Muslim migrants into Austria would lead to anti-Semitism. "Some of these so-called refugees will have grown up thinking anti-Semitism is normal, it would be terrible if this were to happen in Austria."
Of course it's already happened in Austria. A year after the Belgian attack, Muslim terrorists from Iraq and Jordan attacked a Bar Mitzvah trying to murder the children inside. Two people died to protect the children from their grenade attack.
Today, Muslims in Austria shout, "Death to the Jews". In Germany, they chant, "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas" and "Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come on out and fight on your own".
The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany warned that the refugees "come from cultures where hatred of Jews and intolerance are an integral part".
He had earlier stated that, "The question is whether in problematic neighborhoods, areas with a large Muslim population, it's really sensible to announce yourself as a Jew by wearing a kippah, or whether it's better to wear a different head covering."
Opposing Islam in whatever grotesque form it may take is a common sense as well as a moral value.
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