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FadeTheButcher
07-23-2004, 12:00 PM
Slight decline in the Netherlands but a spike in France. Most of these, I would suspect, are being committed by Muslims though.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-antisemjul23,0,4936320.story?coll=sfla-features-headlines

PARIS · A surge in the number of anti-Semitic attacks and a sharp spike in the number of French Jews moving to Israel have unnerved the government of President Jacques Chirac.

The problem, according to French officials and Jewish leaders, is what they have labeled the "new anti-Semitism." Unlike the old form of anti-Semitism, deeply rooted in Christianity's historic enmity toward Jews and kept alive today mainly by the extreme right and neo-Nazi fringe, the new anti-Semitism flourishes among Arab immigrant groups who see Jews as surrogates for Israel.

The French Interior Ministry, which tracks violence against minorities, reported that the number of anti-Semitic incidents peaked in 2002 with 932 incidents of actual or threatened violence--a six-fold increase since 1999. The numbers declined last year, to 588 incidents, but appear to be increasing again this year.

Last year, 21 people were attacked -- the highest number since 1993, according to the Interior Ministry. Several of these incidents were serious stabbings. . .

CONSTANTINVS MAXIMVS
07-23-2004, 02:22 PM
Have you ever seen that Simpsons episode where mr Burns has a medical checkup? His body was infested with germs of every illness known to man, but he was alive, you know why? The germs were all fighting eachother, too busy to attack mr Burns. I'm sure you can see what I am saying here now...