Jewish school bus torched in Strasbourg

Expatica.com ^ | January 20, 2004 | AFP

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STRASBOURG, France, Jan 20 (AFP) - A minibus used to transport children to a Jewish school in the eastern French city of Strasbourg was set alight Sunday night, police said Tuesday.

A few hours earlier assailants hurled stones at the door of a synagogue in the same city.

"Several factors make me think these are anti-Semitic acts," said Pierre Levy, regional delegate of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF). "What is worrying is that the incidents tend to happen after demonstrations," he said.

On Saturday around 20,000 Muslims demonstrated around France against a proposed ban on the Islamic headscarf in schools. The marches were organised by the Strasbourg-based Party of French Muslims, whose opponents accuse it of being anti-Semitic.

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"Several factors make me think these are anti-Semitic acts," said Pierre Levy,

What's French for "irony"?

[jtminton]

"Several factors make me think these are anti-Semitic acts," said Pierre Levy

Hello, I'm Pierre Levy, French genius.

[Atlantic Friend]

It's "ironie". It's pretty clear groups of young Muslims have decided to indulge in a little Crystal Night of their own. You see, burning cars and buses has become almost their despicable tradition in Strasbourg where they set vehicles ablaze at Christmas and New Year's Eve. Boy, I sure hope these frigging little retards will receive their just rewards...in the form of a jail sentence and expulsions over our borders ! It's high time we tell those sorry bastards it's our way or the highway.

[rrrod]

just one more reason to hate the french

[lilylangtree]

Wonder what the response would be if an islamic school bus was torched? When the islamics torched a train or bus murdering women and children passengers in India about 2 years ago, these fanatics muslims lived to regret it. The Indians had a field day with burning out the islamics. Got people to wondering if there was an Indian hit squad just going after the fanatical islamics. Made me cheer just with the thought.

[Naspino]

Sure I mean the French has a long history of supporting Jewish culture. <sarcasm>

[Atlantic Friend]

Oh, well, Rod, why don't you send these bastards a thank-you note because their attacks against France's Jewish community flatter your ethnic prejudices against us ? Who knows, they could do you a favor and bomb a synagogue ? Damn, man, get serious !

[rrrod]

the french have proven to all ...they are pure scum...i do not back away from this at all!

[Atlantic Friend]

Well, Rod, nobody was asking you to backpedal...this being said by a pure scum Frog, of course.

[Prodigal Son]

His raison d'etre is to hate the French and Germans.
He considers them greater enemies than al Qaeda.

[tubavil]

Anti-Semitic acts occur in a country with a long history of anti-Semitism and a large population of genocidal muslims?

I'm shocked!

[Ancesthntr]

"Sure I mean the French has a long history of supporting Jewish culture."

This seems not to be a new thing in Strasbourg:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.html

In the year 1349 there occurred the greatest epidemic that ever happened. Death went from one end of the earth to the other, on that side and this side of the sea, and it was greater among the Saracens than among the Christians. In some lands everyone died so that no one was left. Ships were also found on the sea laden with wares; the crew had all died and no one guided the ship. The Bishop of Marseilles and priests and monks and more than half of all the people there died with them. In other kingdoms and cities so many people perished that it would be horrible to describe. The pope at Avignon stopped all sessions of court, locked himself in a room, allowed no one to approach him and had a fire burning before him all the time. [This last was probably intended as some sort of disinfectant.] And from what this epidemic came, all wise teachers and physicians could only say that it was God's will. And as the plague was now here, so was it in other places, and lasted more than a whole year. This epidemic also came to Strasbourg in the summer of the above mentioned year, and it is estimated that about sixteen thousand people died.

In the matter of this plague the Jews throughout the world were reviled and accused in all lands of having caused it through the poison which they are said to have put into the water and the wells-that is what they were accused of-and for this reason the Jews were burnt all the way from the Mediterranean into Germany, but not in Avignon, for the pope protected them there.

Nevertheless they tortured a number of Jews in Berne and Zofingen [Switzerland] who then admitted that they had put poison into many wells, and they also found the poison in the wells. Thereupon they burnt the Jews in many towns and wrote of this affair to Strasbourg, Freiburg, and Basel in order that they too should burn their Jews. But the leaders in these three cities in whose hands the government lay did not believe that anything ought to be done to the Jews. However in Basel the citizens marched to the city-hall and compelled the council to take an oath that they would burn the Jews, and that they would allow no Jew to enter the city for the next two hundred years. Thereupon the Jews were arrested in all these places and a conference was arranged to meet at Benfeld rAlsace, February 8, 13491. The Bishop of Strasbourg [Berthold II], all the feudal lords of Alsace, and representatives of the three above mentioned cities came there. The deputies of the city of Strasbourg were asked what they were going to do with their Jews. Thev answered and said that they knew no evil of them. Then they asked the Strasbourgers why they had closed the wells and put away the buckets, and there was a great indignation and clamor against the deputies from Strasbourg. So finally the Bishop and the lords and the Imperial Cities agreed to do away with the Jews. The result was that they were burnt in many cities, and wherever they were expelled they were caught by the peasants and stabbed to death or drowned. . . .

[The town-council of Strasbourg which wanted to save the Jews was deposed on the 9th-10th of February, and the new council gave in to the mob, who then arrested the Jews on Friday, the 13th.]

THE JEWS ARE BURNT

On Saturday - that was St. Valentine's Day-they burnt the Jews on a wooden platform in their cemetery. There were about two thousand people of them. Those who wanted to baptize themselves were spared. [Some say that about a thousand accepted baptism.] Many small children were taken out of the fire and baptized against the will of their fathers and mothers. And everything that was owed to the Jews was cancelled, and the Jews had to surrender all pledges and notes that they had taken for debts. The council, however, took the cash that the Jews possessed and divided it among the working-men proportionately. The money was indeed the thing that killed the Jews. If they had been poor and if the feudal lords had not been in debt to them, they would not have been burnt. After this wealth was divided among the artisans some gave their share to the Cathedral or to the Church on the advice of their confessors.

Thus were the Jews burnt at Strasbourg, and in the same year in all the cities of the Rhine, whether Free Cities or Imperial Cities or cities belonging to the lords. In some towns they burnt the Jews after a trial, in others, without a trial. In some cities the Jews themselves set fire to their houses and cremated themselves.

[dfwgator]

Hello, I'm Pierre Levy, French genius.

Inspector Clouseau is a genius compare to Monsieur Levy.

[Ancesthntr]

Read this story and then Post 12, FYI

[ryanjb2]

"the french have proven to all ...they are pure scum...i do not back away from this at all!"

I little extreme, don't you think? The enemy in France are the "French" Muslims. I am sure the vast majority of French are not committing these acts.

[Atlantic Friend]

Well, that's too bad for him, because he must be, deep down, a decent guy. Fact is, we live harsh times when it's difficult to tell friend from foe...

As for his post, it was not his anti-French rant that shocked me - being a long-time lurker here, I get used to it. But people sometime seem to feel some twisted joy when they hear about crimes that please and comfort their prejudice. A Frenchman rejoicing about an American crime because he sees in it the confirmation that all Americans are pure scum would be equally offending to me, and would earn the same remarks.

Well, I'm signing off for tonight - here it's 7:00 PM, and I have a few things to do. Take care, Prod !

[Alouette]

Wonder what the response would be if an islamic school bus was torched?

There would be no end to denunciations and hand-wringing in the world press about this horrific atrocity and act of vile "racism."

But when Muslims run amok, well, you have to be "tolerant" and try to understand why they feel "humiliated."

[highlander_UW]

On Saturday around 20,000 Muslims demonstrated around France against a proposed ban on the Islamic headscarf in schools. The marches were organised by the Strasbourg-based Party of French Muslims, whose opponents accuse it of being anti-Semitic.

I wonder if they have any leads on the racists that torched the bus.