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February 27, 2006
Ilan Halimi Isn't the First and Won't Be the Last
It would be nice to think the case of Ilan Halimi — who was tortured to death for being Jewish by Muslims in France — was an isolated incident. The media's tendency to avoid any story that doesn't facilitate portraying Muslims in a sympathetic light makes believing this all the easier. Unfortunately it isn't true, as illustrated by Mark Steyn:
Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam's throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, "I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven."
Is that an gripping story? You'd think so. Particularly when, in the same city, on the same night, a Jewish woman was brutally murdered in the presence of her daughter by another Muslim. You've got the making of a mini-trend there, and the media love trends.
Yet no major French newspaper carried the story.
Apparently anti-Semitism prevents many Europeans from getting terribly concerned about what happens to Jews. But as Steyn observes, "The Jews are playing their traditional role of the canaries in history's coal mine." Islam's grudge isn't only with Jews; it's with everyone who hasn't joined their barbaric cult. Steyn quotes a Muslim demonstrating in Toronto the other day:
We won't stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.
The protests are one tactic. Murdering Jews is another. Flying airliners into office buildings is a third. The underlying strategy is the same: to bully civilization into submission.
As Steyn puts it, it's all about sovereignty — which mealy-mouthed moonbats are helping Muslims to extend:
Islam claims universal jurisdiction and always has. The only difference is that they're now acting upon it. The signature act of the new age was the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: Even hostile states generally respect the convention that diplomatic missions are the sovereign territory of their respective countries. Tehran then advanced to claiming jurisdiction over the citizens of sovereign states and killing them — as it did to Salman Rushdie's translators and publishers. Now in the cartoon jihad and other episodes, the restraints of Islamic law are being extended piecemeal to the advanced world, by intimidation and violence but also by the usual cooing promotion of a spurious multicultural "respect" by Bill Clinton, the United Church of Canada, European foreign ministers, etc.
To quote Arnold Toynbee, "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." If Muslims succeed in killing Western Civilization, it will be because we let them do it.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 27, 2006 6:30 AM
Comments
scary use of the phrase 'barbaric cult' there, my man. it must be nice to be able to so neatly categorise all people of one particular religion into such nice little packages you can dismiss or condemn so. i originally came to your site to read a comment you made about george monbiot, because i like to read both sides of an argument, and found this little gem of an article. it was only when i actually went to your 'front page', i realised the jingoistic nature of your website, resplendant with animated GIF stars and stripes (very fetching, btw) and the views you represent. your views on Islam particularly scare me (not because i agree/disagree with you but because of how black & white they are) and i can only hope that any Muslims who read your site see you as the same kind of crank i see you as and realise that your views are those held by a warped minority and not the peaceful masses.
i find it interesting that you believe Muslims to be murderers in the making and refer to the cartoon episode we find ourselves in the middle of. you make no reference that Abortion clinic doctors have a tendency to get murdered (in the categorically provable sense of the word) in your own beautiful land (which your ancestors murderously and brutally took from the natives), which is yet another religion-inspired act of violence, or any other such act despite the fact that they do occur. you know, for balance.
also, you could maybe try quoting more than one source in your arguments. it does make it seem like you've only read one person's view on a subject and are just regurgitating.
you are the very type of rabble-rouser this world needs less of because rabble-rousers can be a good thing (because points of view should always be questioned for, you know, balance) but only if they are not misguided or ill-informed, which i'm afraid you certainly appear to be. peace and love to all.
Posted by: andy at February 27, 2006 11:01 AM
Andy,
Your "peace and loce, man" is an insult to my religion and my people.
You are a racist and bigot and because of your "hate speech" I place a fatwah on you and call for your beaheading.
Chrsitianity, the Enlightenment, Science, Democracy, equality, higher education, Liberalism, all these are racist attempts to commit genocide against Musilms.
Death to you all! beginning with Andy.
I know he will offer his throat like a simpering poodle.
Posted by: Ahmed at February 27, 2006 1:08 PM
Andy,
I'll cite another source if you'll try to master the Shift key. Non-moonbats actually find it quite easy to use. Here's the source:
Posted by: Van Helsing at February 27, 2006 1:42 PM
Andy, for the record, you only have to make a comparison between the main figures of Islam and Christianity to see the rather fundamental difference between the two religions. Christians murdering abortion doctors go against the words of christ, whilst muslims murdering jews are actively following the advice of mohammed.
Posted by: Archonix at February 27, 2006 5:04 PM
This story shoulda made front page news..but thankfully the Jews dont care for that kind of attention..Theyre too busy winning nobel peace prizes, raising their families and upholding decency along with their righteous Christian friends...imagine the headlines if a Muzliiim had been beheaded tho...hmmmmmm.
Posted by: Angel at February 27, 2006 6:03 PM
I linked to this post...:)
Posted by: Angel at February 27, 2006 8:03 PM
MURDER OF FRENCH JEW NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT
BY: FERN SIDMAN
The gang that kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered Ilan Halimi, 23, had threatened several prominent businessmen, lawyers and a well-known humanitarian activist, a French newspaper reported Saturday. The daily Liberation reported that the group behind the murder, which authorities have linked to anti-Semitism, tried to extort money from a founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders. Also targeted were the director of the Arte TV channel, a Paris lawyer and the head of a supermarket chain, the newspaper reported, citing police officials.
Police investigating the murder of Halimi earlier this month have made several arrests. The suspected gang leader, was arrested Wednesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and France is seeking his extradition. Fourteen people have been placed under investigation - a step short of being charged - in the case, and two more people were detained Friday for questioning.
Ilan Halimi was abducted on January 21 after a woman came into the mobile phone store where he worked and charmed him into a dinner date. The first break in the case came after the police released an Identikit image of the woman suspected of "baiting" Halimi. After turning herself in our of fears that neighbors would identify her, the woman claimed that she was indeed asked to seduce a number of young men, but was unaware of the act's purpose. She identified the apartment where Halimi had been kept.
Halimi was found on February 13, tied to a tree, naked, wounded, handcuffed, gagged and covered with burn and cut marks on 80 percent of his body. Authorities found Halimi near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris a few days after the kidnappers ended contact with Halimmi's family. He died en route to a hospital.
"They acted with indescribable cruelty," the judiciary police chief leading the investigation said. "They kept him naked and tied up for weeks. They cut him and in the end poured flammable liquid on him and set him alight."
Halimi's family received a series of ransom demands - starting with one for nearly $537,000. Ilan Halimi's mother revealed to the Haaretz newspaper that the police told the family to ignore the gang's attempts to contact them for five critical days, after which Ilan was found near death outside the city. "Five days before Ilan was found, the police told us, 'Don't answer the phone, don't repond to text messages.' We saw dozens of calls and ignored them. On Thursday they found Ilan dead."
"We think there is anti-Semitism in this affair," Rafi Halimi, Ilan's uncle, told the press.
"First, because the killers tried to kidnap at least two other Jews, and second, because of what they said on the phone," Rafi Halimi added. "When we said we didn't have 500,000 euros to give them they told us to go to the synagogue and get it," Rafi said. "They also recited verses from the Koran."
Under questioning by investigators, one of the suspects "made it clear that he had attacked Ilan Halimi 'because he was Jewish, and Jews are rich".
"If Ilan hadn't been Jewish, he wouldn't have been murdered," Ilan's mom said. She accuses the police of ignoring the anti-Semitic motivation in the case in order not to alienate Muslims, Haaretz reported.
According to a recent article on this subject by Caroline Glick, she states, "It appears that Ilan Halimi's murderers had some connection to Hamas. Tuesday, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that police found propaganda published by the Palestinian Charity Committee or the CBSP at the home of one of the suspects. The European Jewish Press reported this week that Israel has alleged that the organization is a front group for Palestinian terrorists and that in August 2003 the US government froze the organization's US bank accounts, accusing it of links with Hamas."
It is clear that the French authorities remain callous and indifferent when it comes to Jews being murdered on their soil or anywhere else. This attitude was evidenced in their initial denial that anti-Semitism played a role in this murder and their expressed policy of ignoring any evidence of anti-Semitism.
This may be the first act of Hamas terrorism directed against a Jew outside of Israel, but clearly it won't be the last. Everyday, we are being saturated with the anti-Semitic diatribes of an Iranian President named Ahmadnajed, of Hamas leaders and leading intellectuals. We can no longer deny it. Anti-Semitism is in full swing. It can only get worse.
Posted by: Fern Sidman at March 2, 2006 11:40 PM
