Well, it happens in France. From Breitbart.com:
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) - Two Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue north of Paris, the latest attack in what France's interior minister said Monday is a new wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks over the violence in Gaza. No injuries were reported.
President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
Firebombs broke a window and charred the walls of a pizzeria on the ground floor at Chabad House Ohr Manahem, in the town of Saint-Denis, said Isroeil Belinow, the synagogue's assistant rabbi. Belinow said police found 15 other unignited firebombs nearby.
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear increase" in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks since Israel started an offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27.
God bless these Islamist terrorists. They aren't any better at getting their bombs to go off than they are at aiming their rockets. But what about these "anti-Muslim attacks" that began with Israel's Gaza offensive? As Powerline points out, there don't seem to be any.
[Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie] declined to provide specific figures on the increase, though she insisted police have been instructed to protect religious sites and places of worship.
Okay. I grant you that Muslims in Europe or America are often subject to prejudice. That's wrong, and it should stop. But do they really have to be afraid? Jews do. Daniel Schawammenthal tells the story in the Wall Street Journal:
There have been arson attempts on synagogues in Britain, Belgium and Germany. Police last week arrested Muslim protesters who wanted to enter the Jewish quarter in Antwerp. Several Danish schools with large Muslim student bodies say they won't enroll Jewish kids because they can't guarantee the children's safety. In France, a group of teenagers attacked a 14-year-old girl last week, calling her "dirty Jew" while kicking her.
At rallies in Germany and the Netherlands over the past two weeks, protesters shouted, "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas." In Amsterdam, Socialist lawmaker Harry van Bommel and Greta Duisenberg, widow of the first European Central Bank president, marched at the front of one such "peace" demonstration. They didn't join in the background chorus calling for another Holocaust. Instead, they chanted, "Intifada, Intifada, Free Palestine." Mr. Van Bommel later insisted this wasn't a call for Jewish blood but for "civil disobedience" -- a laughable defense given that terrorists during the last intifada murdered more than 1,000 Israelis.
Jew-hatred is the canary in the coal mine, the little evil that should warn us of the big evil. It's that little itch in the back of your attention span that is screaming for you to pay attention.
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