French Shari’a Watch

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Last Saturday, a so-called “peace demonstration” in Paris was disrupted by large mobs of violent Arabs, screaming for the blood of Jews and Americans: French Rallies Against War Shift Focus To Israel. And that’s a typically innocuous-sounding New York Times headline for a scary story of genocidal Muslim madness.

Today, as tens of thousands of protesters against the American-led war took to the streets in Paris, 5,000 police officers and a team of marshals were stationed alongside them. Their goal was to prevent a repetition of an event during last Saturday’s march in which protesters marching with a pro-Palestinian group attacked members of the left-wing Zionist youth group, Hachomer Hatzair. The group said two members were beaten with metal bars and treated for injuries at a hospital.

Banners at recent demonstrations have shown the Star of David intertwined with the Nazi swastika.

Today, marshals in white caps struggled, with limited success, to keep the protest free of racist and anti-Semitic symbols and messages. One marshal seized an American flag that bore a swastika where the stars should be; another took away a sticker that showed the swastika, the Star of David and an equals sign between them.

But even as protesters hung a huge banner that read “No to racism and anti-Semitism” on the Place de la Concorde near the heavily guarded American Embassy, one huge banner read “Hitler, Bush, Sharon, in the name of God we kill.” .

Young French Arab teenagers from the poor suburbs chanted slogans pledging war and martyrdom in the name of both Palestinians and Iraqis and against Israel. “We are all Palestinians, we are all Iraqis, we are all kamikazes!” chanted one group of teenagers, no older than 14 or 15, from the suburb of Garges-les-Gonesses. Others chanted: “We are all martyrs! Allah-u Akbar! God is more powerful than the United States.”

Both boys and girls wore the Palestinian scarf known as the kaffiyeh. One Moroccan-born man stepped on an image of the Israeli flag. Another French Arab pointed to a group of protesters from a Jewish student association, and said: “They are targets. They are not welcome here because of what they did to our Palestinian brothers.”

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