French Chief Rabbi: wear baseball caps, not traditional head coverings

[lord of the mark]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=732&e=9&u=/ap/20031119/ap_on_re_eu/france_anti_semitism

ah, La belle France

[Ben Kenobi]

I say wear the yarmulke's anyway. Force them to enforce their law. What will they do, throw people in jail?

[Provost Harrison]

Methinks this could be a good opportunity for some photoshopping

[Bereta_Eder]

I guess, ff you live in a ghetto you can ask them to enforce the laws but by the time they do you've suffered the crime.

I wonder if that's some hot head young muslims who go around and if they find someone jewish they beat him for kicks.

[KrazyHorse]

Asswads (the people making life dangerous).

[Bereta_Eder]

that's of course not antisemitism as our dear friend wants to present. that's hot head muslim youths (most of the time unemployed) going after jews because of israel and palestine. they identify with the latter.

[Sandman]

Why do we have to have so many of these threads? How about limiting it to three a month? One for real anti-semitism in Europe, like the bombings in Istanbul and that school in Paris getting burned. One for phony anti-semitism, like some nobody complaining about Israel at a dinner party, or some grossly exaggerated statistics. And one for pro-Jewish developments, such as the appointment of Michael Howard as leader of the Conservatives, or the expulsion of that German MP.

[Ben Kenobi]

Why should we slag LoTM? It's a real problem. You should post this in the threads that kibitz.

It's not right that the Jews should suffer because of the actions of others who hate them and want to kill them. The French government should step up and protect their citizens from harm.

I understand the Rabbi's concern for his flock, I've found myself in a similar situation with some of the people I'm responsible for in our club on campus.

You want to protect them from harm, yet just the act of expressing your beliefs as a Jew would expose you to danger.

Again, I say wear the yarmulke. Any other action shows the power of the Moslems to cower the Jews. And any other suggestion from the Rabbi would also meet with scorn because of his responsiblity to care for the other Jews.

[Bereta_Eder]

That it is a problem no doubt. Neonazis burning down kurdish shelters are a problem too. The objection is to how serious and widespread it is, what it is in essence and why it's done.

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW my sentiments have already been expressed by krazyhorse

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by paiktis22
that's of course not antisemitism as our dear friend wants to present. that's hot head muslim youths (most of the time unemployed) going after jews because of israel and palestine. they identify with the latter.

It's antisemitic to associate all Jews with the crimes of a few Jews.

[Bereta_Eder]

I thought antisemitism is just "hating Jews".
Not "associating".

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by paiktis22
I thought antisemitism is just "hating Jews".
Not "associating".

What do you think you described in the post che quoted?

[Bereta_Eder]

Association. What do you think I wrote?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Association. What do you think I wrote?

Let me make this easier for you to understand. Would you consider it at all racist for a person to fear and hate all blacks because he was once mugged by one? That's essentially what you are describing with your "hot headed muslim" example.