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Flaming Libs/Koranimals
Europe: A Continent in Flight
February 26, 2013
By Bruce Bawer
Different parts of Europe, same story.
Lets start with France, where a new report by a Jewish community group, Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive (SPCJ), says that anti-Semitism in that country has gotten so much worse in the wake of last years Toulouse school massacre that the number of Jews who are crossing the Channel to find safe haven in the U.K. is skyrocketing. One sign of the trend: St Johns Wood Synagogue in London has set up a separate French minyan, attended regularly by 120 people on Shabbat, with new faces showing up every week. A February 21 piece in the Jewish Chronicle about the SPCJ report noted that while anti-Semitic incidents in Britain and France are roughly comparable in number, those in France are far more likely to involve violence. It also quoted Britains Chief Rabbi as warning that the position of Jews in Europe today is very difficult .Jews in Europe have begun to ask, is there a place for us here? Perhaps the most telling detail in the Jewish Chronicle article was this: while the SPCJ report originally stated that in over three-quarters of the antisemitic incidents the perpetrators were reported as being of North African origin, this fact was later deleted from the text.
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All this fleeing, of course, is nothing new in Europe. Norwegians have been saying ta-ta to certain east Oslo neighborhoods for years. A couple of years ago the Danish newspaper Politiken ran an article headlined Christians and Jews are fleeing from Danish ghettos, noting that in Vollsmose, a suburb of Odense, Jews and Christians were clearing out because they were being threatened with beatings, while in Muslim-heavy areas of Copenhagen, Jewish kids were being advised to apply to schools in other parts of town. The only surprise was the articles appearance in the ordinarily PC Politiken that, and the willingness of a political scientist at Aarhus University to finger Islam as a major part of the problem. Jews, he worried, might well start emigrating from Denmark. A young Jewish man told Politiken that on several occasions Muslim neighbors in Vollsmose had offered him the explicit choice: leave town or get beaten up. He left.
The situation in Denmark has only gotten more and more rotten. Yesterday, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran an article headlined Why you cant be a Jew in Copenhagen, in which Martin Henriksen, immigration and integration spokesman for the Danish Peoples Party, bluntly noted that owing to Muslim anti-Semitism, schools in Copenhagen encourage Jewish parents to find other pastures for their children. We havent witnessed anything like this since the Occupation, he wrote.
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Whatever the specific details of the story, the narratives main point is clear as is its larger import. The story of that boy and his dog, simply put, is the story of todays Europe in miniature the story of a continent whose natives are increasingly being tormented by Koran-wielding tyrants, and increasingly in flight.
Europe: A Continent in Flight