Posted on 06/04/2004 12:20:56 PM PDT by veronica
PARIS - A man reportedly crying "God is great" stabbed a Jewish teenager in the thorax on Friday, seriously injuring the victim, officials said.
The young man, not identified by name, was attacked about 4 p.m. as he left a Jewish school in Epinay-sur-Seine, north of Paris in the rough Seine-Saint-Denis district, officials of the local prefecture said.
The victim was transferred to a hospital and the attacker fled the scene. Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the site where the attack occurred.
Witnesses said a man shouted "God is great" then plunged a knife into him before fleeing.
Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin denounced the attack, saying he shares "the legitimate indignation of the Jews of France against this barbarous act which touches our entire national community."
Anti-Semitic attacks have been on the rise in France despite a series of measures put in place to counter them. However, physical assaults are less common than attacks on Jewish sites, from synagogues to schools, and desecration of Jewish cemeteries.
The Interior Ministry has reported 67 anti-Semitic acts in the first quarter of 2004, a 60-percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
Young Muslims have been blamed for many of the attacks which, over the past few years, have coincided with rising tension in the Middle East.
However, Muslims have also been victims of racist attacks. In March, an arson fire damaged a mosque and destroyed a Muslim prayer hall in Annecy, in southeast France.
And they want the right to have a Call to Prayer 5 times a day in our country! They need to evangelize there call to prayer to the hundreds of Muslims that want to kill innocent jews and christians, this is truly a hypocritical develish religion
Yes and they want to broadcast that 5 times a day! on our land! what's up with that????are they psychotic?
Not to worry. Seinfeld airs regularly in syndication.
;-)
We are, if we allow the "Muslim Call to Murder" to be broadcast over loudspeakers.
Agreed!
P.S You live in the best place! and I know that because I live there too!
bump !
As Britain's Commander in Chief and Palestine's High Commissioner would conclude a generation later, in 1938, Arab "terrorism was not a national movement but bands of banditti of no genuine political significance [or] Arab peasants who are restless and anti-Jew, and who are not averse to joining violent action" for a fee. But, said the Commissioner, the "moderate" Arabs in Palestine who opposed terror feared they would become the victims if they took "a lead against the terrorists."
--From Time Immemorial, page 214.
Run Jews! France is on the side of the Islamic Jihad's. Get out of there.
We, the civilized world, are not meant to flee from bloodthirsty Islamofascists. We are meant destroy them.
If the jihadists, worldwide, keep this and their other egregious actions up, they might one day find themselves "buying the farm." Allahu Fubar!
Jihadists are like excrement. Their only benefit would be derived from their removal.
... and John Kerry's hunt for a VP nominee officially ends.
Courageous.
One thing I admire about Christianity is that we're called to minister and convert if possible... not to kill an unbeliever... what good is another soul lost to hell?
I may be flamed for this... but is islam is satan worship; his own religion.
Allah is Satan. I'll bet it wasn't "God is great" that the man yelled but instead was "Allah akbar". Allah isn't God.
He didn't shout, "God is great!" He shouted, "Allah is great!"
Why is it despicable?
Is it false information?
Trust me ... we're on the same page.
The fact that they translated the "screech of death" in order to protect islam is despicable.
Because it is the predictable pc attempt at moral equivalency.
It goes like this: muslims move into your neighborhood. The neighbors reach out to accept them, but these folks want none of that. They will keep to themselves. They have no intention of blending in with your culture. It disgusts them.
Some of the young men gang rape your daughter and her friends. The local synagogue is burned to the ground. Jews are targets of sporadic but increasingly violent assaults. The newly built mosque, funded primarily by foreign donations, is the source of very disturbing anti-West messages.
The muezzin blares the call to prayer every morning at the crack of dawn. Christians and Jews who travel near the mosque began to realize that it is best to avoid the area. There are more assaults, more vandalism, more rapes.
Reports are coming in from all around. This is not just happening in your little town. Eventually, some locals across the state are fed up, and give the invaders a taste of their own medicine. No one is injured, but a building is damaged.
No one knows whether it is in vengeance, or just a continuation of the muslim takeover, when a young Jewish boy in your town is stabbed in the throat. What is clear is that the stakes have been raised; this was attempted murder.
The AP reports the story, but with this deliberately misguiding ending:
However, Muslims have also been victims of racist attacks. In March, an arson fire damaged a mosque and destroyed a Muslim prayer hall in Annecy, in southeast France.
Sure, the details are true. The message it is meant to convey - that this, too, is a "cycle of violence" with both sides equally responsible - is a lie.
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