Paris area synagogue hit in firebomb attack
By NATHALIE GENTAZ – 20 hours ago
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — 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.
President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
Firebombs broke a window and charred the walls of a pizzeria on the ground floor at Chabad House Ohr Manahem, in the town of Saint-Denis, said Isroeil Belinow, the synagogue's assistant rabbi. Belinow said police found 15 other unignited firebombs nearby.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear increase" in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks since Israel started an offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27.
"We must do everything to stop the importation into our country of the situation that's taking place in the Middle East," Alliot-Marie told RTL Radio.
She declined to provide specific figures on the increase, though insisted police have been instructed to protect religious sites and places of worship.
France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim populations, and Middle East tensions have in the past spilled over into vandalism or other incidents.
In the Chabad House attack, prayers had just finished and the rabbi was getting ready to go home Sunday night when he heard an explosion, Belinow said. Neighbors saw flames and called police.
Lets dissect this...
By NATHALIE GENTAZ – 20 hours ago
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — 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.
President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
Firebombs broke a window and charred the walls of a pizzeria on the ground floor at Chabad House Ohr Manahem, in the town of Saint-Denis, said Isroeil Belinow, the synagogue's assistant rabbi. Belinow said police found 15 other unignited firebombs nearby.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear increase" in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks since Israel started an offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27.
"We must do everything to stop the importation into our country of the situation that's taking place in the Middle East," Alliot-Marie told RTL Radio.
She declined to provide specific figures on the increase, though insisted police have been instructed to protect religious sites and places of worship.
France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim populations, and Middle East tensions have in the past spilled over into vandalism or other incidents.
In the Chabad House attack, prayers had just finished and the rabbi was getting ready to go home Sunday night when he heard an explosion, Belinow said. Neighbors saw flames and called police.
Lets dissect this...
There was a synagogue struck by a fire bomb. The reporter then went on to say that this is another example of the anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim violence sweeping the nation (France) over the violence in Gaza.
Wrong! This is an example of anti-Jewish violence, this is not an attack on Muslims.
Nor does she cite one example of anti-Muslim violence... she just brings it up... for no valid reason. Twice.
Nor does she cite one example of anti-Muslim violence... she just brings it up... for no valid reason. Twice.
The second example is the paragraph quoting the Interior Minister:
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear increase" in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks since Israel started an offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear increase" in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks since Israel started an offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27.
Giving the AP reporter credit that the Interior Minister's name is Michele Alliot-Marie, apart from the three words in quotes the AP reporter invented the rest of the sentence.
Articles that cite the anti-Semitic violence without inventing the anti-Muslim violence:
Articles that cite the anti-Semitic violence without inventing the anti-Muslim violence:
Some of the more vocal anti-Israeli media sources, including Aljazeerah, reported the story without the fictitious report on anti-Muslim violence... it shows you just how far off the reservation AP has wandered.
And the picture above?
A Palestinian protester at the San Francisco "peace" rally shows his feelings.
The picture below? Apparently Santa is a Marxist anti-Semite... who'da thunk it?
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