Posted on 04/02/2007 2:43:05 AM PDT by M. Espinola
Mayor's office in northern city of Lille says it is 'shocked' and 'disgusted' by weekend attack, which it describes as a 'hateful anti-Semitic act'
More than 50 tombstones were damaged in an attack at the weekend on a Jewish cemetery in the northern French city of Lille that the mayor's office described as a "hateful anti-Semitic act".
The Lille mayor's office said it was "shocked" and "disgusted" by the desecration of 53 tombstones overnight Saturday to Sunday in the Lille-Sud cemetery.
New Interior Minister Francois Baroin issued a statement condemning the attack and pledging to mobilise "all means necessary to quickly find the perpetrators of these intolerable acts".
No inscriptions were found on the tombstones, which were tilted and bent as a result of the vandalism.
The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) in February reported a 45 percent increase in anti-Semitic attacks in France between 2005 and 2006.
The overall number of anti-Semitic acts - both physical violence and vandalism - rose 40 percent from 134 to 213, while anti-Semitic insults rose 71 percent, from 48 to 82.
According to the CRIF, anti-Semitic acts have been on the rise in France since 2000, year of the second Palestinian uprising which is supported by many in France's Muslim community, and have since tended to rise and fall in line with developments in the Middle East.
France has one of the biggest Jewish communities in the world, estimated at up to 600,000 people.
They neglect to mention that France has one of the biggest Muslim communities in the non-muslim world, estimated at up to 6,000,000 people. This is where most of the hate and violence is coming from.
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Look at eastern Germany. Are you going to argue that the racist neo-Nazis there are Muslims?
BTW, agree that this could have been done by Muslims; just pointing out that there was anti-Semitism in Europe long before this recent increase in Muslim immigration to the European subcontinent--and that this anti-Semitism still exists.
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.
France has become just so much trash.
Anyone want to bet that "French youths" were behind this?
With every footstep of islam come evil.
LLS
French crime = youths = Muslims.
Good point.
FRANCE
Total population: 62.3 million
Muslim population: Five to six million (8-9.6%)
Background: The French Muslim population is the largest in western Europe. About 70% have their heritage in former north African colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. France favours integration and many Muslims are citizens. Nevertheless, the growth of the community has challenged the French ideal of strict separation of religion and public life. There has been criticism that Muslims face high unemployment and often live in poor suburbs. A ban on religious symbols in public schools provoked a major national row as it was widely regarded as being a ban on the Islamic headscarf. Late 2005 saw widespread and prolonged rioting among mainly immigrant communities across France.
Sources: Total population - National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, 2004 figures; Muslim population - French government estimate.
They pick the tombstones because tombstones don't fight back.
Plus these cowards commit their hate crimes in the dead of night.
I do not think that it will take that long.
LLS
It's too late. Judeo-Christian values are already prevalent and progress is the name of the game. If you want to live like cavemen, Nazis or as things were 1,400 years ago, that is your right, but the rest of us choose, get it? CHOOSE not to and you don't have the power now and NEVER WILL have the power to force us otherwise. So just keep up your pathetic little acts of hooliganism -- all it will get you is in jail and ultimately -- in Hades for eternity. Good day.
what progress do you mean?
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