Thx as always! You always have the best stuff.
French Minister Nicolas Sarkozy Honored for fight against Anti-Semitism
Paris, May 12, 2003
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy Monday condemned anti-Semitism as he received an international prize from a leading Jewish organization, saying that anti-Jewish behavior deserved "zero tolerance."
Sarkozy was awarded the 2003 Tolerance Prize of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for his work in combating anti-Semitism in France
The Jerusalem-based center hunts down Nazi war criminals throughout the world. "Confronted with anti-Semitism and racism, I know only two words," said Sarkozy: "Zero tolerance." (…) "You don't explain anti-Semitism and racism," he said: "You fight it."
Tensions in the Middle East have led to an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in France in 2002. In its annual report on racism in France, the National Consultative Committee on Human Rights (CNCDH) said that out of 313 acts of racist violence documented in 2002, 193 were anti-Semitic.
These acts "affect not only the Jewish community but the entire national community," Sarkozy said on Monday. "I refuse categorically to explain this anti-Semitic violence in terms of the Middle East situation," he said. "Anti-Semitism existed before the State of Israel."
The prize was presented during a colloquium at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris on the theme of "Education for tolerance: the resurgence of anti-Semitism.". Shimon Samuels, Paris representative of the Wiesenthal Center, said the prize was being awarded to Sarkozy because of his "recognition of the scourge of anti-Semitism."
United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello described anti-Semitism as "a highly-resistant virus of the mind." (…) "Islamophobia seems to draw on the same resources as judaeophobia," he said. A just and lasting Middle East peace "would deprive the agents of hate of a pretext they have been exploiting for many a year," he said.
Nathan Sharansky, once a Soviet dissident and now Israel's Minister of the Diaspora, and UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura likewise received Wiesenthal Center prizes.
Embassy of France in the United States - May 15, 2003
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/news/statmnts/2003/sarkozy_antisemitism051203.asp
It's all about Iraq, isn't it?
Yep, it's all about Iraq and...
India and the Sudan and Algeria and Afghanistan and New York and Pakistan and Israel and Russia and Chechnya and the Philippines and Indonesia and Nigeria and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Ingushetia and Dagestan and Britain and Turkey and Kabardino-Balkaria and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and France and Uzbekistan and Gaza and Tunisia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and California and Kuwait and Virginia and Ethiopia and Iran and Jordan and United Arab Emirates and Louisiana and Texas and Tanzania and Sri Lanka and Pennsylvania and Belgium and Denmark and East Timor and Qatar and Maryland and the Netherlands and Scotland and...
...and pretty much wherever Muslims believe their religion tells them to:
"Fight and slay the Unbelievers wherever ye find them. Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
Qur'an, Sura 9:5
" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 12 Months:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/default.htm#attacks
Thanks for the link, USF