In five years' time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam's throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, "I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven."I have never lived in a city with a large Jewish community. I have worked for and with a handful of Jews, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hostility is all about. My friend Bill was a bit strange, but then again, who am I to talk about strange.
Is that an gripping story? You'd think so. Particularly when, in the same city, on the same night, a Jewish woman was brutally murdered in the presence of her daughter by another Muslim. You've got the making of a mini-trend there, and the media love trends.
Yet no major French newspaper carried the story.
This month, there was another murder. Ilan Halimi, also 23, also Jewish, was found by a railway track outside Paris with burns and knife wounds all over his body. He died en route to the hospital, having been held prisoner, hooded and naked, and brutally tortured for almost three weeks by a gang that had demanded half a million dollars from his family. Can you take a wild guess at the particular identity of the gang? During the ransom phone calls, his uncle reported that they were made to listen to Ilan's screams as he was being burned while his torturers read out verses from the Quran.
This time around, the French media did carry the story, yet every public official insisted there was no anti-Jewish element. Just one of those things. Coulda happened to anyone.
Someone help me out. What danger do Jews represent? Why should I despise them? Why is it OK to kill them? Anyone?
1 comment:
A Jew-killer would say it's because the jews are all conspiring to kill all the non-jews and take over the world... that or "so-and-so said I had to kill Jews to get to heaven."
Such statement are only outward projections of the true feelings of Muslim murderers towards others.
The fact of the matter is that it has nothing to do with the "threat" of Jews. It has to do with the projection of the Arab world's (particularly Islam's) failures on someone other than themselves. The best targets for the least successful to blame are, naturally, the most successful. Which is why you see things like people blaming America for cartoons drawn in Denmark.
Jesus said you will know a tree by its fruits. What I see as the fruits of Islam are murder, hatred, and intolerance as basic tenets of faith. It's this framework that provides an outlet for the feelings of Arabs in the middle east. Of course, those feelings are cultivated through the application of Islam (spending more money on "bombs" instead of "butter"), and you arrive at an infinite regression of a discontented life and hatred towards those more who are more successful.
The problem is far more complex that this, but it's the common theme in pretty much anything you read or hear about Muslims v. Jews/West/Christians/democracy.
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