World Jewish News
CRIF President Francis Kalifat requested the authors of the petition to bring the necessary clarification.
|
Appeal by Muslim personalities doesn’t mention Jewish victims of terror attacks in France
02.08.2016, Anti-Semitism French Jewish groups denounced Muslim personalities whose appeal against djihadists omits any ention to anti-Jewish terrorist attacks in France.
The petition, which was signed by dozens of academics and celebrities, appeared Sunday in the Journal de Dimanche under the title “We, French-Muslims, are ready to assume our responsibilities.”
The text deplores the perceived weakness of the institutions of their faith communities in stopping extremists from acting violently in Islam’s name.
It begins by listing five recent terrorist attacks: The Charlie Hebdo killings in January 2015, the bombing and shooting attacks in November, the murder of two police officers in June, the Nice promenade attacks last month and last week’s slaying of a priest.
But it makes reference neither to the murder of four Jews in the HyperCacher kosher supermarket in Paris nor to the murder of three children and a rabbi in a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012 – both perpetrated by radical Islamists.
For CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish organisations , this omission is an insult for the memory of the eight victims of these attacks, which have been targeted by terrorists because their were Jews.' ' CRIF President Francis Kalifat requested the authors of the petition to bring the necessary clarification. In the appeal titled '' We, French and Muslims, are ready to assume our responsibilities, '' personalities call themselves' concerned by the inability of the current organization of Islam in France, which has no control over events. '' The union of Jewish students in France (UEJF) said it ‘’is alarmed by the erase of the issue of antisemitism '' in the petition.
'' If I do not doubt the good intentions of the authors of this appeal, I can not explain their indifference to anti-Semitism, which is nevertheless an essential component of radical Islam, '' said UEJF Sacha Reingewirtz, in a statement.
In their letter, the co-signatories called for “a clear organizational project” within French Muslim communities, which would involve “transparent and viable funding for mosques, education and salaried employment for imams, research on history, anthropology and theology that would allow and allows one to be Muslim in a non-religious republic.” It also called for “a cultural battle against radical Islam, among young and not so young, with modern methods and the most effective techniques for disseminating information and ideas.”
EJP
|
|