So someone makes a You Tube film and a Jewish grocery store in Paris is bombed. Sounds insane and it is!!! Jews don't blow up Muslim grocery stores when Jews are vilified in Muslim publications, on Muslim TV and radio and on Muslim blogs and other internet sites. If you want respect. doesn't it have to be both ways? If you could see the rampant anti-Semitism in European and Arabic media, you would wonder why there isn't such a huge outcry against the Jewish and Israel bashing that occurs every day here. Shalom from Paris. David Schneier
Story from The Huffingron Post on-line
France Kosher Store Bomb Explosion Injures 4
PARIS — A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher
grocery store in a Paris suburb Wednesday, wounding at least one person,
according to an agency that tracks anti-Semitic attacks in France.
The reason for the attack was unclear, but it rattled nerves amid
global tensions surrounding a U.S.-produced film insulting to Islam. The
French grocery store attack came a few hours after a satirical French
weekly published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, prompting anger
from French Muslim groups.
The Jewish Community Protection Service, set up to register
anti-Semitic attacks in France, says on its website that two individuals
dressed in black threw an explosive device inside a kosher supermarket
in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles at lunchtime Wednesday. It says one
person suffered small injuries, without elaborating.
Yves Jannier, the state prosecutor in the Val d'Oise region where
Sarcelles is located, cautioned that evidence was still being compiled
and it was too early to draw any conclusions about motives behind the
attack.
"We'll need to analyze, quantify and measure all these elements, such
as to know perhaps the type of explosives used," he said at a news
conference. "But for now, we should avoid any extrapolation or hasty
conclusions."
The Sipa news agency reported four injuries. It said the two
assailants fled after throwing a rock through the shop's window shortly
before the explosion, and that the victims are being treated for wounds
to their arms and legs from the explosion and broken glass.
A French Jewish umbrella organization, CRIF, said in a statement that
"it fears this attack" is connected to violent protests in recent days
from Asia to Africa against the U.S.-produced film "Innocence of
Muslims," which ridicules Prophet Muhammad. CRIF criticized those who
are linking Jews to the making of the film and said "nothing can justify
the wave of violence that has hit the world since its release."
France, which has western Europe's largest Jewish population, sees
sporadic but persistent anti-Semitic acts, often vandalism of gravesites
and synagogues. The nation also has the region's largest Muslim
population, and mosques and Muslim gravesites are periodically
desecrated.
Fears of a new wave of anti-Semitism in France resurfaced after a
gunman claiming ties to radical Islam killed three children and a rabbi
at a Jewish school in Toulouse in March, the worst such attacks in
France since the 1990s.
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Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
