Page 207 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 205

Anti-Semitism in Europe lingers in the form of harassment in
public areas, offensive remarks and discriminatory behav-
iour in social life and more terrifyingly, in the form of brutal
assaults; the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses,
burning of cars, hundreds chanting "gas the Jews," "kill the

Jews," in violent protests, shootings and fire-bomb attacks
against synagogues, and the recent Creteil attack in
France in which a Jewish
couple was brutally
attacked in their home.
That incident was a horri-
ble reminder of the 2006
incident – again in
France – that involved a

young Jewish man being
captured, tortured for
weeks and then left
naked to die.

France is not the only
place that witnesses anti-
Semitism. From Argentina
to Tunisia, from Ireland to
Spain, Jews seem to be

caught up in a constant
cycle of hatred targeting their communities. Even in the US,
Jewish people are wary of divulging their identities, or prac-
ticing their religious duties in public. An unprovoked attack
on a 24-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippa by four men
in Brooklyn, New York; the assault of a 12-year-old Jewish
girl, who had a bottle thrown at her by a group of girls,