Over 300 French prominents have published a manifesto in newspaper Le Parisien, against antisemitism in France.
They write that 'in France, the country of Emile Zola and Clemenceau, a silent ethnic cleansing is taking place'. Since 2006, 11 jews have been murdered by radical muslims.
In just 10 years time, over 10% of the jewish population of Paris have fled the country, mostly to Israel.
Especially from the empoverished banlieux around Paris, many jews have moved out.
France is a 'theatre of murderous antisemitism that gets way too little attention'.
Among the signatories are philosophers (Elisabeth Badinter, Alain Finkielkraut, Luc Ferry), politicians (former president Sarkozy, former premier Valls, former mayor of Paris Delanoë), and artists (Carla Bruni, Charles Aznavour, Gérard Depardieu, Françoise Hardy)
In France, a jew is 25 times more at risk of becoming victim of insult or assault than a muslim. Yet, for some reason there is more media attention for islamophobia than there is for antisemitism, according to the signatories.
'Why this silence? Because islamic radicalization - and the antisemitism it brings - is considered by a large part of the French elite to be an expression of social revolt.
A wrong interpretation, because the same radicalization is also to be seen in completely different nations like Denmark, Afghanistan, Mali, and Germany'.
'Next to that there is the radical, antizionistic left, which paints the torturers of jews as victims of the system.
Simple electoral statistics also play a role. There are ten times as many muslim voters as there are jewish voters in France'.
The concern about antisemitism in islamic circles is not new to France.
In 2006, the jewish man Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and killed by a group calling themselves 'the Gang of Barbarians'. The gang members, all muslims, genuinely thought that all jews are rich, and thought they could get a ransom.
In 2012 Mohamed Mereh shot 3 children and a teacher at a jewish school in Toulouse.
In 2015, Amedi Coulibaly killed 4 people in a jewish supermarket in Paris.
In 2017, 65-year old Sarah Halimi was tortured and killed by her muslim neighbor, while he was recting verses from the Qu'ran.
Not very long ago, 85-year old Mireille Knoll was murdered in Paris. Main suspect is her muslim neighbor who thought she had money because she is jewish.
At the silent march to honour Mireille Knoll, imams also were present. The fact that those needed police protection from their own flock says enough about how French muslims are terrorised by islamists.
The signatories of the manifesto demand that not just the French state, but also muslims will have to do more to banish anti-semitism from islam.
'We demand that those verses in the Qu'ran that call for killing or otherwise punishing jews, christians, and unbelievers are scrapped from the Qu'ran by religious authorities, just like incoherence and antisemitism were removed from the Bible by the Second Vatican Council'.
http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/manifeste-contre-le-nouvel-antisemitisme-21-04-2018-7676787.phpInb4 France bans the Qu'ran
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