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Thread #154376   Message #3632131
Posted By: bobad
11-Jun-14 - 06:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Naming Europe's New Anti-Semitism

Europeans are reluctant to describe the Brussels museum shooting as an anti-Semitic hate crime. It's time to end this dangerous state of denial.

"And where are the imams?

Where are the young Muslims of whom we never tire of saying that they have nothing to do with this nasty business?

What do the imams need to happen before forcefully condemning, once and for all, the insult to the Koran, the blasphemy, that is the act attributed to Nemmouche?

And what do young Muslims need to hear before organizing, rising up in protest, and, one would hope, chanting with one voice, "We are all Brussels Jews in danger of being killed"?"

Bernard-Henri Lévy The Daily Beast