An Imam In France That Went Too Far

Nadene Goldfoot
France has been very lenient with the influx of Muslim immigrants.  From having 4.7 million in 2010, the Pew research feels there will be 6.9 million in 2030.  Unfortunately so many have been extremists and violent to the point of putting many Jewish citizens in jeopardy with their hatred for Jews.  A Jewish school was targeted in Toulouse on March 19, of this year  with the result of the deaths of 3 small children and their teacher and another injured. There has been 148 incidents in March and April with 43 being violent.  Last year there were 14 violent anti-Semitic attacks, so it has risen.

France has the highest Jewish population in Europe, but this was causing many to remove to Israel.  In 2004 the Jewish population was about 483,500.  They suffered 96 anti-Semitic incidents that year.

France did the unthinkable.  Wednesday they deported 77 year old Imam Mohammed Hammami back to Tunisia where he came from in the 1960's.  He has been a real trouble-maker by giving anti-Semitic speeches that called for a holy war against everyone not Muslim.  He called for corporal punishment of women who stepped out of line of the Sharia Law.  He has been preaching in the Omar Mosque in Paris. It is but one of 19 mosques in the capital.  

Since the massacre in Toulouse, anti-Semitism rose 45% this year alone.  Netanyahu arrived in France on Wednesday for conferences and was assured that the country is doing its best to halt this anti-Semitic criminal behavior.  He mentioned that  the French Jews would be welcomed in Israel.   The population is projected to be 482,000 of Jews in France by 2020.  

We only have 13.3 million Jews in the whole world today.  1.6 million live in Europe which is 12% of our population.  In 1939, on the cusp of World War II there were 17 million Jews.  France acted bravely by ousting an Imam, but they realized that he was a threat to the society and security of France.

Resource:  http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-expels-radical-tunisian-imam-17607899
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161583
http://www.pewforum.org/future-of-the-global-muslim-population-regional-europe.aspx
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html
http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/world-jewish-population.htm
http://judaism.about.com/od/jewishhumor/f/jewry_france.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_France
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/anti-jewish_attacks_in_france_reach_epidemic_proportions.html

Monday's Toulouse, France Murderer Belongs to al-Qaida

Nadene Goldfoot
On Monday, a motorcyclist with helmet shot at close range and killed 3 children and a Rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse.  The killer, who turns out to be a Muslim, Mohammad "Meharin, had then called French TV stations after the  attacks and said he had avenged French participation in the Afghan war, the "suffering" of Gaza Palestinians and the Sarkozy government's ban on the veil in public places for Muslim women."  Police suspected he had videotaped his killings, and it turns out he had. 

Toulouse police stormed a house at dawn after a 12 hour siege where this al Qaeda gunman, Mohammed Merahin, 24 yr old  French Algerian  was hiding.  He shot and injured 3 policemen before admitting he committed the crimes for al Qaeda.  This killer trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  He had been active in Forsane Alizze (Knights of Pride) , a 2 year old  extremist Islamic organization which was only outlawed in February for support of terrorism but had been identified before that with al Qaeda.  His 4 Jewish victims were buried in Jerusalem.

His home was only 2 km from the school.  He had also killed 2 French paratroopers and wounded a 3rd last Thursday.  His brother and his girlfriend were also arrested as his accomplices.  At the same time the police stormed his house, security police made swoops on extremist Muslim hideouts all across France. 

Claude Gueant, French Interior Minister, said that the man was a suspect early on in the killings of the paratroopers.  The police had asked Merahin's mother to take up contact with him as part of police negotiations but had refused.  French foreign Minister Alain Juppe flew to Israel with the victims and attended the funerals as a mark of French-Israeli solidarity. 

Resource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/235366
Oregonian newspaper, March 21, 2012, page A6, Police exchange shots with suspect claiming al-Qaida ties
DEBKA-Toulouse (Muslim) school killer reported captured in police raid

Prime Minister Netanyahu's Response to Jewish School's Attack in Toulouse, France

Nadene Goldfoot
The populaton of France is 65,821,885.  Of these, 19% are foreign born with 42%  of the 19% coming from Africa.  About 550,000 Jews are living in France, which is the largest Jewish population in Europe today.  Jews make up only less than 1% of the world population.  There has been a lot of anti-Semitism in France  lately. The largest religous group are Roman Catholics with Islam  numbering as the 2nd highest religion there today with the Pew forum estimates of 4.7 million Muslims in 2010.

 A man on a motorbike had been killing and terrorizing the city and surrounding area in SW France 3 days before an attack Monday morning on a Jewish school.  Three of the 4 killed there were children and was the 3rd attack on unarmed people in the past week.  In 1982 there was an assault on a Paris kosher restaurant, and this is the deadlist attack on Jews since then. 

Rabbi Yonatan  "Jonathan" Sandler, 30,  of Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem, Israel and his sons, Aryeh, age 6 and Gavriel 3 1/2 were murdered.  Also, an 8 year old Miriam Monsonegro, daughter of the director of the school, was killed when the killer chased her into the concrete courtyard and stopping her by pulling her hair, then shooting her in the head.   Rabbi Sandler was serving as an Israel shaliach (emissary) at the school.  Two other children were shot and are seriously wounded. 

The killer fired on people waiting at a school drop-off point, then fled on his motocycle.  Surveillance around Jewish schools has been ordered to be increased by France's Interior Ministry.  The Chief Rabbi of France said he was horrified. 

Three days earlier 3 French paratroopers were shot dead 30 km away from this city.  The method and person seemed to be the same in the Jewish killings.  The paratroopers were either all Arab or black and it looks like they were targed on purpose. 

Monday, March 19, 2012
Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Following the Terror Attack

in Toulouse, France Today (Monday), 19.3.12(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)


“Today we had a savage crime in France that gunned down French Jews, among
them children. It’s too early to say what the precise background for this
act of murder is, but I think that we can’t rule out that there was a strong
murderous anti-Semitic motive here. I’m sure that Nicolas Sarkozy, the
President of France, and his government will do their utmost to find the
killer and we, in Israel will do everything to help them in this task.
I haven’t heard yet a condemnation from any of the UN bodies but I have
heard that one such body, the UN Human Rights Council, invited on this very
day a senior representative of Hamas – on this day, when we had the savage
murder, they chose to invite a member of Hamas. This particular individual
condemned the United States for disposing of the arch-murderer Bin Laden,
and he represents an organization that indiscriminately targets children and
grown-ups, and women and men. Innocents - is their special favorite target.
They kill Jews anywhere – that’s their constitution – kill Jews wherever you
find them – that’s what tey do. And this is what the Human Rights Council
decided to do today – to bring in to its quarters a member of Hamas. So I
have one thing to say to the UN Human Rights Council: What do you have to do
with human rights? You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

What Netanyahu is referring to is the charter of Hamas that calls for the death of all Jews, the same message that the Muslim Brotherhood has and Qaradawi, religious leader of Qatar as well as other places. 

Resource: Oregonian newspaper March 20, 2012  page A6 Motorbike gunman kills 4 at Jewish school
Bibi's Response to Outrage in France-IMRA Statement,  forwarded from Tamar Boussi
Toulouse: Rabbi Yonatan Sandler and his Children among the Dead by Gil Ronen

http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2011/07/shocking-facts-about-anti-semitism-in.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France