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EU: 50% of anti-semitic incidents connected to radical Islam

Oi ! | 25.03.2008 17:03

Some 50 percent of anti-Semitic incidents on the European continent are connected to radical Islamic elements, according to a senior European Commission official.

The figure comes from European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini, who is responsible in the EU for combating racism and anti-Semitism in Europe. Frattini mentioned it in a conversation with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Isaac Herzog last week, and said it was based on European Union reports.


Frattini was in Israel last week for the Second European Union-Israel Seminar for Combating Racism and Anti-Semitism at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.


Herzog, who is responsible for coordinating government activities in combating anti-Semitism at the cabinet level, told The Jerusalem Post that it was \"not new that Frattini relates a large percentage of anti-Semitic incidents to radical Islam, and it\'s important to say, not Islam as such.\"


According to Herzog, European governments are responding to this \"aggressively,\" including educating Muslim imams throughout the continent on \"European values, principles of democracy, the rights of women and the like.\"


Besides dealing with the radical Islamic source of a large part of anti-Semitic activity in Europe, European and international institutions are beginning to respond to anti-Semitic discourse through education, according to the minister.


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Alright for some

25.03.2008 17:14

Its a shame the EU never compiles reports to investigate anti-islamic attacks and their roots.

A21

Multculturalism-German Style-Stay Home Turks!

25.03.2008 18:22

A controversial textbook passage which appears to justify the killing of Turks living in Germany will be deleted from future editions according to the German Embassy in Ankara. Families and students in the German town of Schleswig-holstein, are furious that seventh graders were given a book which apparently explains the reason a German murderer may be have been justified in killing Turks in his country. Markus Buchholz was one of four young men who set afire a house containing a Turkish family and killed some of its inhabitants. According to the passage, “Marcos wanted to teach them a lesson. They should learn that they weren’t wanted here. He just wanted to consternate tham a little so that they would go back to Anatolia…,In any case, their parents are guilty. If they had stayed n Anatolia, nothing would have happened to the two children who died in the fire.”

If the purpose of the author was exploring the mind set of Markus, that might be justified, but it would also entail other views and explanations so a seventh grader could understand the context of the passage. Somehow, we doubt if passages would be published in this manner which explain the thinking of a Turk who murdered Germans.

What next, a passage from Hitler explaining Jews never would have died if only they behaved in the correct manner?

Fred Stopsky
- Homepage: http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/multculturalism-german-style-stay-home-turks/

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ahhh but

25.03.2008 20:57

islam is such a peaceful religion..........

pointy

TIMELINE OF ANTISEMITISM & THE UK JEWISH COMMUNITY

26.03.2008 08:55



1144 ‘William of Norwich’ blood libel; the first recorded blood libel against Jews anywhere.

1190 Anti-Jewish riots, including the massacre of 150 Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York.

1255 ‘Hugh of Lincoln’ blood libel.

1290 Expulsion of Jews from England; first of the general expulsions in medieval Europe.

1656 Return of Jews permitted by Oliver Cromwell.

1881 Large-scale immigration of Jews from Russia & Eastern Europe begins.

1905 Aliens Act introduced; first legal move to limit Jewish immigration.

1936 ‘Battle of Cable St’ as Mosley’s British Union of Fascists tries to march through Jewish area of East London.

1938 Beginning of Kindertransport programme, which rescued nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany.

1966 Arson attacks on synagogues in London by Colin Jordan’s National Socialist Movement.

2000 Start of second Palestinian Intifada sparks sudden rise in antisemitic incidents in UK; 105 incidents recorded in October, the highest monthly total on record.

2006 All-Party Parliamentary Report into Antisemitism published; CST records 594 antisemitic incidents, the highest number on record.




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