Some 50 percent of anti-Semitic incidents on the European continent are connected to radical Islamic elements, according to a senior European Commission official.
The figure comes from European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini, who is responsible in the EU for combating racism and anti-Semitism in Europe. Frattini mentioned it in a conversation with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Isaac Herzog last week, and said it was based on European Union reports.
Frattini was in Israel last week for the Second European Union-Israel Seminar for Combating Racism and Anti-Semitism at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
Herzog, who is responsible for coordinating government activities in combating anti-Semitism at the cabinet level, told The Jerusalem Post that it was "not new that Frattini relates a large percentage of anti-Semitic incidents to radical Islam, and it's important to say, not Islam as such."
According to Herzog, European governments are responding to this "aggressively," including educating Muslim imams throughout the continent on "European values, principles of democracy, the rights of women and the like."
Besides dealing with the radical Islamic source of a large part of anti-Semitic activity in Europe, European and international institutions are beginning to respond to anti-Semitic discourse through education, according to the minister.
Source: Jerusalem Post (English)
See also: EU: Map radical mosques
2 comments:
Radical Islam does not exist, just like moderate fascist do not exist. The doctrine of Islam is always radical, agressive and intollerant. There is only more and less Islam, but there does not exist a moderate Islam.
I agree. Islam is even worse than fascism. How anyone can allow a religion that advocates flogging women and cutting off thieves hands campaign for sharia law is outrageous. If a political party stood on that platform it would be outlawed. Islam gets round it by claiming it is a religion and it is gods will. Absolute garbage. Any group that looks for political power should be treated as a political party. They should not be allowed to advocate atrocities. Soon they'll be campaiging that the holocaust did not happen. Then they will be campaigning for another holocaust. All in their satanic gods name.
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