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by Soeren Kern • May 19, 2018 at
5:00 am
- More than 250 French
public figures — elected officials from all sides of the
political aisle, representatives of different religions,
intellectuals and artists — signed a manifesto against "the
new anti-Semitism" brought to France by mass immigration
from the Muslim world.
- The manifesto,
published by Le Parisien, sounded the alarm against a
"low-level ethnic cleansing" of Jews in Paris and
demanded that the verses of the Koran which call for the killing
and punishment of Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims
"be obsoleted" by theological authorities. In a counter-manifesto
published by Le Monde, a group of 30 French imams
insisted that Islam is not anti-Semitic.
- "Anti-Semitism in
Europe, in France, in Toulouse is no longer just by the
far-right, but from political Islam." — Aviv Zonabend,
Deputy Mayor of Toulouse.
- An estimated six
million people — around one-tenth of France's population — live
in 1,500 neighborhoods classified by the government as Sensitive
Urban Zones (zones urbaines sensibles, ZUS).
Members of
the Communist Party and other far left groups in the Paris City
Council introduced a proposal to establish a massive migrant shelter
at Paris's iconic Bois de Boulogne park (pictured above), which is
situated in the city's upscale 16th arrondissement. The proposal
is aimed at achieving a "territorial rebalancing" so that
migrants are distributed across all parts of Paris. (Image source:
sniperzeta/Wikimedia Commons)
April 1. Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, in an
interview with the newspaper Ouest-France, said that French
authorities had foiled 20 jihadi attacks in 2017 and two in 2018. He
also revealed that of the 26,000 known jihadis in France with S-files
(fiche "S," those considered highly dangerous), only 20
were deported during 2017.
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