At Harry's Place, a thoughtful contribution to the debate about the ever-increasing obviousness of Islam's lack of humanity, and its anti-Semitic and totalitarian character.
In welcoming the Muslim extremist Yussuf al-Qaradawi to London, Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, not only defended the indefensible, and tolerated the intolerable - he acted against the interests of London's own citizens. I don't see that there can be an argument with that assertion.
Harry's Place documents what happens in a society where such tolerance of the intolerable becomes normal:
Six Arab youths attacked a 23-year old woman and her baby because they thought she was Jewish, Friday morning in a commuter train near Paris.
Six Arab youths aged 15 to 20 stole the backpack of a young mother traveling on the train. Rummaging through her documents for money and credit cards, they found out that her address was in the posh 16th arrondissement of Paris – in fact, her former address. "All the Jews live there," said one of the youth.
The six then pulled knives, slashed the young woman's T-shirt and trousers and cut her hair "for a souvenir," they told her. Then they daubed three swastikas on her belly with black felt pens. When the train stopped at the Sarcelles station (North of Paris), they knocked over the baby buggy holding the woman's one-year old baby and fled.
The woman, who is not Jewish, was not injured.
Some twenty people were seated in the double-decker carriage all the time the six were harassing the young mother. According to the police reports, no one tried to come to her help or even pulled the signal to warn a controller.
The whole of the deeply disturbing report is here.
Update 13/7:
It now appears that the swastika-slashing incident was a hoax:
'Swastika attack' woman detained
The reported assault follows a rise in anti-Semitic attacks
Police in France have detained a woman who alleged she had been the subject of a shocking anti-Semitic attack.
The move came after no evidence was found to corroborate her story four days after the alleged assault on a train in the suburbs of Paris.
The 23-year-old woman said six men cut her clothes and drew swastikas on her body, accusing her of being Jewish.
Police say there are trying to clarify some inaccuracies in the account of the woman who has not been named.
According to French media reports - citing unnamed police sources - the woman subsequently admitted having made the story up.
The case has sparked widespread condemnation amid concern that racist and anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in France.
This has the ring of a provocation about it - not much doubt about that.
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