Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Important anti-Semitism Alert re: France

Dear Friends, Recent reports out of the Jewish Community in
France are sounding very ominous. The Jewish people in France have had a long
history, and events of the past few years have created an atmosphere of fear and
danger for the 600,000 Jewish citizens who continue to reside there. In a
pattern that is reproducing itself throughout Europe and in some cases beyond
Europe, France's Muslim populations are growing exponentially, (now estimated to
number 5 to 6 million) and the younger members of the Muslim population are
acting to promote extremism and anti-Semites. "Nowhere have the flames of
anti-Semites burned more furiously than in France" declared one member of the
French Jewish Community anxiously in an e-mail he circulated amongst his peers,
trying to raise awareness and take more of a proactive stance in combating the
alarming trend. Here are a few examples of some of the most recent occurrences
that have created such uneasiness for our Jewish brethren living in France.

Here is part of the email that I keep receiving from some of my (good) friends. Following this paragraph is a list of "facts" that happened in France. I am not going argue the veracity of those incidents (even though for some of them, I know they're never occurred) but my point is that we're all facing nowadays one of the dangers of the Internet through that kind of emails. They say whatever we want to hear (here, the bias that France is country full of antisemitics looking to kill Jews) and is written is a way that would call up to the emotion of the reader: Yes, you probably already guessed it:Propaganda.

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