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To: D. Long who wrote (14836)	5/25/2002 5:55:43 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

September attacks 'ignited latent xenophobia in Europe' By Stephen Castle in Brussels 24 May 2002 Latent xenophobia in Britain and the rest of Europe was ignited by the events of 11 September, a report said yesterday as it highlighted a catalogue of attacks on Muslims. The report described physical assaults on Muslim men and women, arson attacks on mosques and a "vitriolic" campaign by British tabloid newspapers against asylum-seekers. The document, compiled by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, also cited criticisms of Islam by senior politicians, including the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and the former British prime minister Baroness Thatcher. Launching the report, Bob Purkiss, the chairman of the centre, said that 11 September "has, in some cases, merely acted as a detonator of feelings that we have failed to adequately address. "If it is right for Europe to give a lead where there is ethnic tension elsewhere in the world, then it is imperative that it puts its own house in order if it is to be listened to." The study reproduces five pages worth of reports of physical or verbal violence against Muslims in Britain, including gang attacks, explosions, hate mail, threatening graffiti, and an incident where 10 pigs' heads were left outside an Essex mosque. Citing headlines from the Daily Mail, the report also says that there has been a wider media campaign against immigrants in Britain. news.independent.co.uk As for the fire in the Israeli embassy in Paris, I guess it's just tit-for-tat reprisals for Mossad's assassination of eleven French engineers in Karachi.... Two weeks ago, a peaceful, harmless couple of Moroccan immigrants were shot dead in cold blood by their racist neighbour, a 79-year-old Belgian by the name of Henrik Vyt. It happened in Schaerbeek, a Brussels' district.... The Moroccans (husband and wife) had five children, some of them would have died in the burning house were it not for the heroic help of a neighbour (H. Vyt set fire to the house shortly after killing his neighbours). Vyt was said to be p*d off by far-right leader JM Le Pen's defeat in France. Anyway, the point is, not a single Jew publicly expressed outrage at such an horrible hate crime!! A few days before, when stones were thrown at a synagogue, the Jews were all crying wolf but, somehow, they couldn't care less about the assassination of innocent, NON-JEWISH immigrants --THEY'RE A DISGUSTING BUNCH.** You can check out the whole story in the local (French) daily La Dernière Heure (archives of May 12/13, 2002): dhnet.be Now, talking of arsons against synagogues, French radio Europe 1 reported that, in at least one out of two or three cases, it was not a criminal act but just an ACCIDENT, that is, nothing to write Israel about..... Gus