Monday, January 12, 2009

My Way News - Paris area synagogue hit in firebomb attack
AP reports: "Two Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue north of Paris, the latest attack in what France's interior minister said Monday is a new wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks over the violence in Gaza. No injuries were reported."

Comment: I admit that I may have missed the reports of "anti-Muslim attacks" but this strikes me as an absurdly PC statement trying to assert a moral equivalency between the two. Antisemitism is rising in Europe in tandem with the increase in Islamic immigrants, and anti-semitic attacks have been well documented, but I don't recall any high-profile "anti-Muslim attacks" reported in the mainstream media, at least on this side of the Atlantic. And, is she really blaming Israel's defense against Hamas rocket attacks for antisemitism in France? This really is the popular world opinion: if the Israelis would just stop defending themselves then all would be well.

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