Michael Ejercito
2017-06-11 12:59:09 UTC
France: Islamic Antisemitism, French Silence
by Guy Millière
June 11, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10513/france-islamic-antisemitism
The files of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism (BNVCA)
document that all of the anti-Semitic attacks committed in France for more
than two decades came from Muslims and Islamists.The French authorities know
this, but choose to hide it and look in another direction.
None of the French organizations supposedly combating anti-Semitism talks
about Muslim anti-Semitism: therefore, none of them combats it.
A survey carried out for the Institut Montaigne a few months ago showed that
anti-Semitism is widespread among French Muslims. Apparently, 27% of them
(50% of those under 25 years old) support the ideas of the Islamic State
(ISIS).
Paris, April 4, 2017, 4:00 am. A Malian Muslim named Kobili Traore breaks
into the apartment of one of his neighbors, Sarah Halimi. He knows she is a
Jew. In the past, He has repeatedly uttered anti-Semitic insults at her.
Halimi and her family had filed complaints and asked the police to
intervene. Each time, the police respond that Traore has not committed a
criminal act, and that they did not want to be accused of anti-Muslim
prejudice.
That day, Traore decides to go from words to deeds. He beats Halimi
violently. He tortures her. She screams. Neighbors call the police. This
time the police do something -- but not enough.
When they arrive at Halimi's door, they hear Traore shouting Allahu Akbar,
and shaytan ("demon"). In a jarring breach of duty, they decide to run away.
They walk out of the building and call for reinforcements.
The reinforcements arrive more than an hour later, at 5:30 am. It is too
late. Halimi had been thrown out the window by Traore a few minutes earlier.
She is dead. Her body lies on the sidewalk three floors below. It is clearly
an anti-Semitic murder committed by a Muslim who invoked the name of Allah.
Sarah Halimi (Image source: Courtesy of the family)
Traore is arrested and says that the Quran commanded him to kill, but he is
not thrown in jail. Instead, he is sent to a psychiatric hospital. He is
still there. Almost no one in the French media talks about what happened;
they still have not. The few journalists who broke the wall of silence
described the killing as a "random crime" committed by a "madman". None of
them says that the murderer is a Muslim who invoked the name of Allah and
that his victim was a Jew.
Three days later, a rally is organized by Jewish leaders at the scene of the
crime. Only Jews come. They are greeted by insults similar to those made
against Halimi before her slaying. Bottles and metal objects are thrown at
them from nearby buildings.
Members of Halimi's family ask the authorities for an explanation, and
demand to see the psychiatric report established at the time of Traore's
internment. They receive no reply. Joel Mergui, President of the Consistory,
the institution charge of the Jewish religion in France, presses charges.
Halimi's sister places the case in the hands of a famous lawyer,
Gilles-William Goldnadel, president of France-Israel. In an op-ed published
in Le Figaro, Goldnadel emphasizes that "the killer has the classic profile
of the usual Islamic criminal". He adds that Traore "had no psychiatric
history". He notes that the murder occurred shortly before the French
presidential election, and any mention of an antisemitic Islamic murder at
that time would probably not have served the interests of Emmanuel Macron,
the candidate supported by the Muslim Brotherhood in France. Goldnadel
points out that a "political choice" was made by the French authorities.
Now that Emmanuel Macron is president, the political choice seems to remains
the same.
The murder of Sarah Halimi is not the first anti-Semitic murder Islamic
committed in France in recent years. Twelve years ago, Ilan Halimi was
abducted, tortured for three weeks, then savagely murdered by a gang led by
an Ivorian Muslim, Youssouf Fofana. In March 2012, Mohamed Merah, a French
jihadist who trained in Afghanistan, shot dead Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his
two sons, Aryeh, 6, and Gabriel, 3, and Miriam Monsonego, 8, in a Jewish
school courtyard in Toulouse. In January 2015, in a kosher supermarket east
of Paris, Amedy Coulibaly, a man who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic
state, murdered four men: Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, and
François-Michel Saada.
Each time, the anti-Semitic and Islamic character of the murders was almost
completely erased by the French media.
Ilan Halimi's murderers have been described as "teenagers adrift", looking
for easy money. Mohamed Merah was originally depicted as a young man
frustrated at not being able to join the French army. Amedy Coulibaly was
presented as a petty criminal who slipped abruptly towards "radicalization".
The French authorities declare that they mercilessly fight anti-Semitism,
but the only anti-Semitism they seem to fight or even denounce is the one
emanating from the far-right. During the French presidential election
campaign, the Front National and Marine Le Pen were obsessively presented as
an absolute danger for French Jews and used as straw-men. Marine Le Pen is
not beyond reproach, but she was the only candidate who dared to connect the
dots and say that anti-Semitism is rising sharply among French Muslims and
leads to murder. Evidence shows that far-right anti-Semitism in France is
dying. The files of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism
(BNVCA) document that all of the anti-Semitic attacks committed in France
for more than two decades came from Muslims and Islamists. The French
authorities know this, but choose to hide it and look in another direction.
None of the French organizations supposedly combatting anti-Semitism talks
about Muslim anti-Semitism: therefore, none of them combats it. Talking
about Muslim anti-Semitism on French territory can lead one to criminal
court. This is what happened recently to intellectuals such as Georges
Bensoussan and Pascal Bruckner, among others. The Collective against
Islamophobia in France (CCIF) tracks all "Islamically incorrect" statements,
asks for penalties and is often successful at getting them. Even
organizations that pretend to fight anti-Semitism sometimes join the CCIF in
fighting someone who points out Muslim anti-Semitism.
Islamic anti-Semitism is such a taboo in France that a documentary on the
subject, produced by the Franco-German TV channel ARTE, was cancelled when
the station's directors were informed of its contents. ARTE's executives
were expecting a denunciation of "fascists". When they saw that the maker of
the documentary, Joachim Schroeder and Sophie Hafner, spoke about the
omnipresent hatred for Jews in the "suburbs of Islam," they said that the
product delivered was not the one they had ordered, and threw it in the
garbage. As the film is the property of ARTE, it will never be shown.
A week before the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron went to the
Holocaust Memorial in Paris and used the visit to outmaneuver his opponent,
Marine Le Pen, and to denounce the "anti-Semitism that killed Jews in
Europe" seven decades ago. He did not denounce the anti-Semitism that kills
Jews in France today. He did not do it before being elected. He still has
not. He probably will never do it. He knows there is nothing to be gained.
He needs the support of the Muslim electorate. He does not want to lose it.
The Jewish vote in France has no weight; it does not count.
A survey carried out for the Institut Montaigne a few months ago showed that
anti-Semitism is widespread among French Muslims. Apparently, 27% of them
(50% of those under 25 years old) support the ideas of the Islamic State
(ISIS): those aspects of the survey have barely been mentioned anywhere.
Columnist Ivan Rioufol spoke about them recently in a televised debate. A
complaint was immediately filed against him.
A petition signed by 16 writers, journalists and academics, made public on
June 2, asked that more exposure be given the murder of Sarah Halimi. The
French Ministry of Justice said that the psychiatrists concluded that the
murderer was not responsible for his actions at the time of the events and
that maybe he did not even intend to kill. He will spend two or three years
in a psychiatric institution, then will be released.
The district of Paris where Sarah Halimi lived is a no-go zone, like nearly
600 other districts in France. Most Jews who still live in France have left
the no-go zones and avoid entering them, as do most other French. Sarah
Halimi did not leave. She suffered terrible consequences. She was, those who
knew her agree, a sweet woman, but she was a Jew at a time when it is unsafe
to be a Jew in France.
Jews who have the financial means to leave France, leave in increasing
numbers. Jews who do not have the financial means to leave know that they
have to be careful wherever they are in France. If they live in or near an
Islamized neighborhood, they understand that they must quickly be able to
collect their belongings and flee: their lives are at stake and no one will
help them if a jihadist murderer comes to murder them.
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of
27 books on France and Europe.
by Guy Millière
June 11, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10513/france-islamic-antisemitism
The files of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism (BNVCA)
document that all of the anti-Semitic attacks committed in France for more
than two decades came from Muslims and Islamists.The French authorities know
this, but choose to hide it and look in another direction.
None of the French organizations supposedly combating anti-Semitism talks
about Muslim anti-Semitism: therefore, none of them combats it.
A survey carried out for the Institut Montaigne a few months ago showed that
anti-Semitism is widespread among French Muslims. Apparently, 27% of them
(50% of those under 25 years old) support the ideas of the Islamic State
(ISIS).
Paris, April 4, 2017, 4:00 am. A Malian Muslim named Kobili Traore breaks
into the apartment of one of his neighbors, Sarah Halimi. He knows she is a
Jew. In the past, He has repeatedly uttered anti-Semitic insults at her.
Halimi and her family had filed complaints and asked the police to
intervene. Each time, the police respond that Traore has not committed a
criminal act, and that they did not want to be accused of anti-Muslim
prejudice.
That day, Traore decides to go from words to deeds. He beats Halimi
violently. He tortures her. She screams. Neighbors call the police. This
time the police do something -- but not enough.
When they arrive at Halimi's door, they hear Traore shouting Allahu Akbar,
and shaytan ("demon"). In a jarring breach of duty, they decide to run away.
They walk out of the building and call for reinforcements.
The reinforcements arrive more than an hour later, at 5:30 am. It is too
late. Halimi had been thrown out the window by Traore a few minutes earlier.
She is dead. Her body lies on the sidewalk three floors below. It is clearly
an anti-Semitic murder committed by a Muslim who invoked the name of Allah.
Sarah Halimi (Image source: Courtesy of the family)
Traore is arrested and says that the Quran commanded him to kill, but he is
not thrown in jail. Instead, he is sent to a psychiatric hospital. He is
still there. Almost no one in the French media talks about what happened;
they still have not. The few journalists who broke the wall of silence
described the killing as a "random crime" committed by a "madman". None of
them says that the murderer is a Muslim who invoked the name of Allah and
that his victim was a Jew.
Three days later, a rally is organized by Jewish leaders at the scene of the
crime. Only Jews come. They are greeted by insults similar to those made
against Halimi before her slaying. Bottles and metal objects are thrown at
them from nearby buildings.
Members of Halimi's family ask the authorities for an explanation, and
demand to see the psychiatric report established at the time of Traore's
internment. They receive no reply. Joel Mergui, President of the Consistory,
the institution charge of the Jewish religion in France, presses charges.
Halimi's sister places the case in the hands of a famous lawyer,
Gilles-William Goldnadel, president of France-Israel. In an op-ed published
in Le Figaro, Goldnadel emphasizes that "the killer has the classic profile
of the usual Islamic criminal". He adds that Traore "had no psychiatric
history". He notes that the murder occurred shortly before the French
presidential election, and any mention of an antisemitic Islamic murder at
that time would probably not have served the interests of Emmanuel Macron,
the candidate supported by the Muslim Brotherhood in France. Goldnadel
points out that a "political choice" was made by the French authorities.
Now that Emmanuel Macron is president, the political choice seems to remains
the same.
The murder of Sarah Halimi is not the first anti-Semitic murder Islamic
committed in France in recent years. Twelve years ago, Ilan Halimi was
abducted, tortured for three weeks, then savagely murdered by a gang led by
an Ivorian Muslim, Youssouf Fofana. In March 2012, Mohamed Merah, a French
jihadist who trained in Afghanistan, shot dead Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his
two sons, Aryeh, 6, and Gabriel, 3, and Miriam Monsonego, 8, in a Jewish
school courtyard in Toulouse. In January 2015, in a kosher supermarket east
of Paris, Amedy Coulibaly, a man who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic
state, murdered four men: Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, and
François-Michel Saada.
Each time, the anti-Semitic and Islamic character of the murders was almost
completely erased by the French media.
Ilan Halimi's murderers have been described as "teenagers adrift", looking
for easy money. Mohamed Merah was originally depicted as a young man
frustrated at not being able to join the French army. Amedy Coulibaly was
presented as a petty criminal who slipped abruptly towards "radicalization".
The French authorities declare that they mercilessly fight anti-Semitism,
but the only anti-Semitism they seem to fight or even denounce is the one
emanating from the far-right. During the French presidential election
campaign, the Front National and Marine Le Pen were obsessively presented as
an absolute danger for French Jews and used as straw-men. Marine Le Pen is
not beyond reproach, but she was the only candidate who dared to connect the
dots and say that anti-Semitism is rising sharply among French Muslims and
leads to murder. Evidence shows that far-right anti-Semitism in France is
dying. The files of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism
(BNVCA) document that all of the anti-Semitic attacks committed in France
for more than two decades came from Muslims and Islamists. The French
authorities know this, but choose to hide it and look in another direction.
None of the French organizations supposedly combatting anti-Semitism talks
about Muslim anti-Semitism: therefore, none of them combats it. Talking
about Muslim anti-Semitism on French territory can lead one to criminal
court. This is what happened recently to intellectuals such as Georges
Bensoussan and Pascal Bruckner, among others. The Collective against
Islamophobia in France (CCIF) tracks all "Islamically incorrect" statements,
asks for penalties and is often successful at getting them. Even
organizations that pretend to fight anti-Semitism sometimes join the CCIF in
fighting someone who points out Muslim anti-Semitism.
Islamic anti-Semitism is such a taboo in France that a documentary on the
subject, produced by the Franco-German TV channel ARTE, was cancelled when
the station's directors were informed of its contents. ARTE's executives
were expecting a denunciation of "fascists". When they saw that the maker of
the documentary, Joachim Schroeder and Sophie Hafner, spoke about the
omnipresent hatred for Jews in the "suburbs of Islam," they said that the
product delivered was not the one they had ordered, and threw it in the
garbage. As the film is the property of ARTE, it will never be shown.
A week before the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron went to the
Holocaust Memorial in Paris and used the visit to outmaneuver his opponent,
Marine Le Pen, and to denounce the "anti-Semitism that killed Jews in
Europe" seven decades ago. He did not denounce the anti-Semitism that kills
Jews in France today. He did not do it before being elected. He still has
not. He probably will never do it. He knows there is nothing to be gained.
He needs the support of the Muslim electorate. He does not want to lose it.
The Jewish vote in France has no weight; it does not count.
A survey carried out for the Institut Montaigne a few months ago showed that
anti-Semitism is widespread among French Muslims. Apparently, 27% of them
(50% of those under 25 years old) support the ideas of the Islamic State
(ISIS): those aspects of the survey have barely been mentioned anywhere.
Columnist Ivan Rioufol spoke about them recently in a televised debate. A
complaint was immediately filed against him.
A petition signed by 16 writers, journalists and academics, made public on
June 2, asked that more exposure be given the murder of Sarah Halimi. The
French Ministry of Justice said that the psychiatrists concluded that the
murderer was not responsible for his actions at the time of the events and
that maybe he did not even intend to kill. He will spend two or three years
in a psychiatric institution, then will be released.
The district of Paris where Sarah Halimi lived is a no-go zone, like nearly
600 other districts in France. Most Jews who still live in France have left
the no-go zones and avoid entering them, as do most other French. Sarah
Halimi did not leave. She suffered terrible consequences. She was, those who
knew her agree, a sweet woman, but she was a Jew at a time when it is unsafe
to be a Jew in France.
Jews who have the financial means to leave France, leave in increasing
numbers. Jews who do not have the financial means to leave know that they
have to be careful wherever they are in France. If they live in or near an
Islamized neighborhood, they understand that they must quickly be able to
collect their belongings and flee: their lives are at stake and no one will
help them if a jihadist murderer comes to murder them.
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of
27 books on France and Europe.