THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 190, August 26, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE:
EUROPE'S ANTI-SEMITIC CANCER HAS RETURNED
By Alan Caruba
FULL STORY:
Referring to the way the Nazis succeeded in killing an estimated six million Jews and five million Christians in their concentration
camps, Reverend Martin Niemoller in 1945 wrote:
“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they
came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they
came for the Catholics, but I was not a Catholic, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not a Jew, so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to
speak out.”
Contrast that with a May 1 quote from Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah ibn Abe Al-Aziz:
“It became clear to us now that Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom. I can say that I am
95% sure of that.”
And I am 95% sure the Saudis and all the other Islamic Arabs are certifiably insane because they will always find that it is the
Zionists, i.e., Jews, who are responsible for everything wrong in their region and the world beyond.
Muslims constitute nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. Jews represent approximately 0.002 percent! Islam numbers 1.2
billion people. At the most, there are barely 14 million Jews, the bulk of whom reside in America and the tiny nation of Israel.
I was reminded of Pastor Niemoller in early July, when there was a report of six teenagers who allegedly attacked a 23-year-old
mother on a suburban Paris train. Grabbing her backpack, they found she lived in the 16th district of Paris. One said, “There are
only Jews in the 16th.” The woman’s claims proved to be false. However, the fact that she was initially and widely believed
revealed how extensive anti-Semitism has become in France. “To be Jewish today in France has become an aggravating
circumstance,” said Sylvian Zenouda of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
Assaults against French Jews have been escalating over the past several years. In just the first six months of this year, the
Interior Ministry had recorded 135 anti-Jewish attacks, along with 375 reported threats. The figure rivals the numbers from all
of last year when there were a total of 593 anti-Jewish acts or threats recorded. France is home to the largest Jewish and
Muslim populations in Western Europe.
The French have a bad track record with regard to its Jews. After the Nazis invaded, many became willing accomplices in the
roundup and deportation of French Jews to the death camps. Following the alleged attack, Roger Cukierman, President of the
Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said that government actions are no longer sufficient to fight
anti-Semitism. The whole of French society needed to be mobilized, he said, to play an active role in stopping racism.
The real lesson here, however, is the way the rise of anti-Semitism is the leading indicator of troubles to come in Europe. Do not
say it cannot happen again. It can. It is happening. It is the cancer that has lived in the heart of Europe for nearly two millennia.
Today it is being spread by the growing population of Muslims who call Europe home and who are demanding a greater voice
in its affairs.
The obdurate opposition of the European Union and the United Nations to Israel is yet another indicator that the disease is
working its way through that continent and others. It went into remission following World War II, but it never went away.
As Pastor Niemoller said, there will be no one left to speak out to save Jew and non-Jew alike, if this evil is not confronted now
and returned to the Pandora’s box where it belongs.
The Islamic war utilizing terrorism that is afflicting the world these days is a veritable tea party compared to what it will unleash
unless it is defeated. The attacks on Jews in France, in Israel, in Turkey, in Morocco, and elsewhere foretell a new Holocaust and
its victims won’t just be Jews.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Jews & Anti-Semitism
Europe, Europeans, & Anti-Semitism
The Threat of Radical Islam
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past columns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Nations vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 28 West Third Street, Apartment 1321, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079.
Copyright 2004 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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