Augean Stables

In my essays on France, I remarked that under guise of anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism has returned because Zionist crimes gave Judeophobia an “objective” explanation.

So while the Europeans in their cognitive egocentrism, apologized for Palestinian terrorism, which they took to express thwarted national aspirations, they continued to fuel Jihadi violence. The outbreak of the Intifada and constant exposure to “le petit Mohammed” brought the violent discourse against the Jews to new heights in Europe. This was especially true in France with the highest numbers of both Jews and Muslims in Europe, where formerly mixed and functional neighborhoods of Jews and Muslims from North Africa were split apart by the new tone. The racaille won: attacks on Jews and Jewish sites multiplied.

Indeed France has become the bell-weather of violence against the Jews, the earliest and most widespread manifestation. As a Tunisian cabdriver said to me, “I grew up in Tunisia with Jews in my neighborhood. I didn’t become an anti-Semite until I came to France.”
“Were you watching Hizbullah cable TV,” I asked?
“No, French news.”

Now we have a new and terrifying illustration of this phenomenon in Sweden. (One would think that by 2006 some kind of learning curve had started to kick in, but apparently the Europeans are very slow.) The minister of Justice has decided not to pursue a case against the main mosque in Sweden despite it’s overwhelmingly vicious rhetoric which contravenes laws against making “derogatory statements about ethnic, racial, national, religious and sexual minorities or to incite hatred and violence against them.” The logic is breathtaking (or, as Solomonia puts it, dhimmi logic)

In his decision to discontinue the preliminary investigation Lambertz wrote that “the lecture at hand contains statements that are strongly degrading to Jews, among other things, they are throughout called brothers of apes and pigs.” Furthermore a curse is expressed over the Jews and “Jihad is called for, to kill the Jews, whereby suicide bombers - celebrated as martyrs - are the most effective weapon”.

The Chancellor raises the question whether the statements “should be judged differently, and be considered allowed, because they are used by one side in a continuing profound conflict, where battle cries and invectives are part of everyday occurrences in the rhetoric that surround the conflict.” Lambertz thought that the “recently mentioned statements in spite of their contents are not to be considered “incitement against an ethnic group according to Swedish law”. His conclusions were that the preliminary investigation should be discontinued because this case of incitement against Jews could be said to originate from the Middle East conflict. That is, in spite of the calls for ”killing the Jews”, these statements are not a crime in the legal sense in Sweden, because of the current conflict in the Middle East, according to the Chancellor of Justice.

One could not get a better expression of:

My question: is this pure stupidity? veiled anti-Semitism? or the principles of Eurabia at work?

In any case, it well suits the image of Europeans, sipping their anti-Judaic wine while holding an open bar for their anti-Semitic Muslims to knock back 160 proof fire water. A friend of mine has a good test for whether something rises above common garden-variety dislike of Jews (which is perfectly acceptable, we’re all free to like and dislike): if the distaste for Jews is visibly self-destructive and people still can’t let go. Time for a new version of “Isn’t it ironic.”