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French Jews Feel Abandoned. Tension in Suburbs
Brussels Journal ^ | 2006-05-31 20:14 | Paul Belien

Posted on 05/31/2006 2:39:15 PM PDT by DanielKronlid

Today the French authorities closed down the website of “Tribu Ka”, a group of French black Muslims. The website contained anti-Semitic texts [some of which are quoted here]. Last Sunday evening about thirty members of Tribu Ka, armed with bats and sticks, staged a march through the Rue de Rosiers in the historic Jewish quarter of Paris, shouting “Death to Jews” and “Let the Jews fight us if they dare!”

Tensions between black Muslim immigrants and French Jews have been rising since another black gang, who call themselves “the Barbarians,” kidnapped Ilan Halimi, a 21-year old Jew, last February. Halimi was tortured for three weeks and subsequently murdered. Youssouf Fofana, the imprisoned leader of the gang that murdered Halimi, is acclaimed as a hero by groups such as Tribu Ka. Tribu Ka was founded by Kami Saba [Kémi Séba], a black Parisian who says he has been inspired by the Black Muslims in the United States.

Though a police officer admitted that the authorities knew the “tribe” was going to march through the Jewish neighbourhood last Sunday, as “it had been announced on the Tribu Ka internet site,” twenty minutes lapsed before the police arrived. According to a Jewish source a senior police officer, called to account by angry inhabitants of the Rue de Rosiers, said that the police “had received instructions from the top not to intervene.” The French authorities apparently did not want to provoke the thugs. As a result some Jews openly wonder whether the Jewish community should not organize its own militia.

The authorities fear that provoking the thugs could trigger a new round of urban violence, similar to last November’s riots, in predominantly immigrant suburbs of major cities across France. The situation in the “banlieus” appears to be tense again. On Monday night around a hundred youths clashed with French police after setting fire to cars and rubbish bins in Clichy-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburb that was the scene of violence in November.

In nearby Montfermeil, seven police officers were injured while protecting the house of Xavier Lemoine, the mayor of Montfermeil, which was attacked after the mayor had forbidden youths between 15 and 18 to gather in groups of more than three. “The violence shows that the life of my family, my wife and my seven children, is threatened,” Mr Lemoine, a member of France’s governing UMP party, said. As in November, the immigrant “youths” want to make it clear that their law rules in the suburbs, not the law of the French Republic.

An opinion poll published today indicates that 31% of the French hope that the anti-immigrant politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, will stand as a candidate for the presidential elections next year. If Le Pen, who is already 77 years old, does stand, 36% expect him to get to the second round, where the voters can only choose between the two most popular candidates. In 2002 Le Pen made it to the second round of the presidential elections, to the great surprise of the French media, the political pundits and the pollsters.

Le Nouvel Observateur, a leftist publication which published the poll, commented that if Le Pen makes it to the second round in 2007, “offering the whole world the sad spectacle of a disfigured France where the extreme right is the second largest political force in the country, this will be even worse than in 2002.” According to the poll 83% of the French consider Le Pen to be rude, 81% say he is a racist and 53% call him a demagogue. On the other hand, however, 68% say he is a man of convictions and 64% say that he is the only politician to address certain specific problems.

In neighbouring Spain a poll published on Monday also indicated growing dissatisfaction with immigration. 70% of the Spanish say that there are too many immigrants in the country.


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KEYWORDS: antisemitism; france; frenchjews; jews
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1 posted on 05/31/2006 2:39:19 PM PDT by DanielKronlid
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To: DanielKronlid

Coming soon to an America near you!


2 posted on 05/31/2006 2:40:30 PM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: DanielKronlid

lets send the French Jews Abe Foxman. He'll teach them how to be "nice" to the muslims


3 posted on 05/31/2006 2:41:03 PM PDT by avile
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To: DanielKronlid

Construct a sentence using the words "tribe", "barbarians", "death" and "fire". Okay .... "The Koran is."


4 posted on 05/31/2006 2:46:18 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: DanielKronlid
offering the whole world the sad spectacle of a disfigured France where the extreme right is the second largest political force in the country, this will be even worse than in 2002

And a France that is now crawling with murderous SOBs from the Middle East trying to kill Jews is not a "sad spectacle"?

5 posted on 05/31/2006 2:47:37 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: DanielKronlid

"gang, who call themselves “the Barbarians"

The Barbarians?

Does anyone have to read any further to know who the bad people are?


6 posted on 05/31/2006 2:48:34 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: MagnoliaB

I'll save everyone who doesn't know this with a factual statement, proven over the centuries about the true nature of Islam.

ISLAM IS A XENOPHOBIC, MISOGYNISTIC, SELF AGGRANDIZING DEATH CULT.

Any more questions?


7 posted on 05/31/2006 2:53:20 PM PDT by 308MBR ( Somebody sold the GOP to the socialists, and the GOP wasn't theirs to sell.)
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To: DanielKronlid
According to a Jewish source a senior police officer, called to account by angry inhabitants of the Rue de Rosiers, said that the police “had received instructions from the top not to intervene.”

Preemptive surrender?
8 posted on 05/31/2006 2:55:03 PM PDT by Renderofveils (Qur’an 8:39 “So, fight them until all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.”)
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To: DanielKronlid

"According to the poll 83% of the French consider Le Pen to be rude, 81% say he is a racist and 53% call him a demagogue."

If 83% of the people in France think you're rude, you've got issues!


9 posted on 05/31/2006 2:55:11 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: DanielKronlid
Last Sunday evening about thirty members of Tribu Ka, armed with bats and sticks, staged a march through the Rue de Rosiers in the historic Jewish quarter of Paris, shouting "Death to Jews" and "Let the Jews fight us if they dare!"

A French Kristalnacht.

Prediction: if there is much more Islamic violence in the streets, Jean-Marie Le Pen _will_ become the next president of France.

And let me say upfront and without equivocation that I'm rooting for him. Only someone such as Le Pen - who "68% [of the French] say he is a man of convictions and 64% say that he is the only politician to address certain specific problems" is going to be capable of standing up to the Islamics, and awakening the French to their imminent demise.

"Rude"?
A "demagogue"?
A "racist"?
Does any of this matter any more?

Really, considering the situation France is in TODAY, and considering where it will be tomorrow if nothing drastic (and draconian) is done to reverse the Islamic tide, what difference does that make?

Can anyone BUT a "racist" (on the side of the European/whites) clearly see the problems at hand?

Would you have called Charles Martel as much?

- John

10 posted on 05/31/2006 2:55:50 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: DanielKronlid

This time I hope the jews bear arms.


11 posted on 05/31/2006 2:57:02 PM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: 308MBR
ISLAM IS A XENOPHOBIC, MISOGYNISTIC, SELF AGGRANDIZING DEATH CULT.

I'm sorry, could you clarify that a bit more for me? /sarc

This is why I love the French. They're the only nationality that consistently lives up to and even surpasses the most outrageous stereotypes one can come up with about them. The police are AFRAID of the people?!? Just once I'd like to see the French break the mold and show some backbone.

Good grief!

12 posted on 05/31/2006 3:02:51 PM PDT by The Blitherer ("These are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived." – W. S. Churchill)
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To: The Blitherer

I know, too bad the Jewish residents didn't come out en masse and beat every last one of these thugs to death. Bad move on their part.


13 posted on 05/31/2006 3:09:21 PM PDT by mallardx
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To: DanielKronlid
The French authorities apparently did not want to provoke the thugs. As a result some Jews openly wonder whether the Jewish community should not organize its own militia.

Ya think??

Hey--Frenchie Jews--obtain baseball bats, truncheons, brass knuckles, and get a few Israelis to help train you and when those b*stards come back, meet them with 100 tough yids with the above-mentioned accoutrements. They won't be back.

14 posted on 05/31/2006 3:17:08 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must)
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To: gotribe

"This time I hope the jews bear arms."

That would bring police intervention.


15 posted on 05/31/2006 3:32:09 PM PDT by strategofr (H-mentor:"pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it"Hillary's Secret War,Poe,p.198)
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To: DanielKronlid

"In neighbouring Spain a poll published on Monday also indicated growing dissatisfaction with immigration. 70% of the Spanish say that there are too many immigrants in the country."

Or more precisely to say, too many unintegrated Jihadist Muslims in the country. As Bat Yeor shown in "Eurabia: Euro Arab Axis", the European leadership embrace since 1973 of Arab sheikhs demands of unlimited Muslim immigration into Europe without assimilation and support of the Arab world Anti-Israeli policies in exchange of uninterrupted flow of oil is bearing its fruit--Europe becomes the province of Islam


16 posted on 05/31/2006 3:36:42 PM PDT by sergey1973 (Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
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To: MagnoliaB

I want alllll the Warriors!


17 posted on 05/31/2006 3:45:02 PM PDT by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: DanielKronlid

"The authorities fear that provoking the thugs could trigger a new round of urban violence, similar to last November’s riots, in predominantly immigrant suburbs of major cities across France. The situation in the “banlieus” appears to be tense again. On Monday night around a hundred youths clashed with French police after setting fire to cars and rubbish bins in Clichy-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburb that was the scene of violence in November. "


For heaven's sake, declare the martial law and bring in troops if Police force is not enough to maintain the law and order. In US, even though it was technically against the US Constitution if I'm not mistaken, the US Marines were used to help quelling 1992 LA Riots. Just recently in New Orleans, troops were brought in to restore the law in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. France today, thanks to huge unassimilated and unintegrated Muslim enclaves, is in a mortal danger of disintegrating or being taken over by Islamic Gangs. Either France will eventually show the resolve while it's not too late, or it will become another "Palestine".


18 posted on 05/31/2006 3:47:30 PM PDT by sergey1973 (Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
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To: Pharmboy

nunchakus would be a good start


19 posted on 05/31/2006 4:24:17 PM PDT by Canedawg (In God We Trust)
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To: Renderofveils
"Preemptive Surrender"

My God, Fellow Freeper -- you just flagged the French National Psyche!

It appears to me that the aspect of French national Behavior that has changed in the last century ia that this mortal struggle for France has been lost entirely from within -- essentially commencing with De Gaulle's implementation of the Fifth Republic, over five decades past.

(Study historian Bat Ye'or's "Eurabia" closely. Terrifyingly cogent and germane!)
20 posted on 05/31/2006 4:38:45 PM PDT by dk/coro
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