Antisemitism and Islamophobia rising across Europe

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Anti-Jew, Muslim attitudes rise in Europe: survey

By Michael Conlon, Religion Writer

Reuters

Wednesday, September 17, 2008; 2:06 PM

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish feelings are rising in several major European countries, according to a worldwide survey released on Wednesday.

 

The Washington-based Pew Research Center's global attitude survey found 46 percent of Spanish, 36 percent of Poles and 34 percent of Russians view Jews unfavorably, while the same was true for 25 percent of Germans, and 20 percent of French.

 

Spain has not had a large Jewish population since expelling its Jews in 1492. The other four countries have a long history of anti-Semitism culminating in the Holocaust.

 

The figures are all higher than in comparable Pew surveys done in recent years, the report said, and "in a number of countries the increase has been especially notable between 2006 and 2008."

 

Opinions of Muslims are also dimming compared to previous years with 52 percent in Spain, 50 percent in Germany, 46 percent in Poland and 38 percent in France having negative attitudes toward them.

 

Richard Wike, associate director of the attitudes project, said in an interview the poll did not try to find out why attitudes have changed but other data indicate negative attitudes toward Israel could be driving anti-Semitic feelings.

 

He also said concerns about extremism and immigration may be a factor in negative views toward Muslims.

 

Britain was the only European country without a substantial increase in anti-Semitic attitudes, the report said, with just 9 percent in that country rating Jews unfavorably. In the United States 7 percent had negative views of Jews as did 11 percent in Australia.

 

But about one in four in the United States and Britain thought poorly of Muslims.

 

"There is a clear relationship between anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attitudes," the report said. "(Those) that view Jews unfavorably also tend to see Muslims in a negative light."

 

The findings were based on interviews with 24,717 people in 24 countries earlier this year. The poll had error margins ranging from plus or minus 2 to 4 percentage points, varying by country.

 

The most extreme anti-Jewish feelings, the poll said, were found in predominantly Muslim nations, where favorable attitudes were only in the single digits among Turks, Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, and Pakistani.

 

But in many predominantly Muslim countries there has been an erosion of support since 2002 for suicide bombing and other violence against civilians in the name of Islam.

 

 

In 2002 about three-in-four Lebanese Muslims said such attacks could often or sometimes be justified, but the figure dropped to about one in three in the latest poll. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated in a massive explosion in February 2004, setting off a wave of political murders.

 

 

The survey also said positive attitudes toward Osama bin Laden have declined in several countries but the al Qaeda leader still enjoys high support in Nigeria, Indonesia and Pakistan.

 

 

The poll also found:

- France is the most secular nation surveyed, with 60 percent saying they never pray and only one in 10 rating religion as important in their life.

 

 

- Anti-Christian attitudes have been on the rise in Spain where 24 percent now rate Christians negatively, up from 10 percent in 2005.

 

 

- Majorities in Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria say they are concerned about Islamic extremism.

 

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Anti-Jew, Muslim attitudes rise in Europe: survey

By Michael Conlon, Religion Writer

Reuters

Wednesday, September 17, 2008; 2:06 PM

 

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish feelings are rising in several major European countries, according to a worldwide survey released on Wednesday.

 

 

This is of course a racist nonsensical lie since there's no more such thing as a typical European. Take Germany, every fifth "German" is a foreigner, more than 5 million Muslims live alone in Germany. Muslims work there, are having their families and live peacefully in that country and are fully represented in the government by Muslim members of Parliament.

Concerning anti-Jewish feelings, the Germans voted Angela Merkel as their Federal Chancellor who is Jewish. Looks rather like some rascal opportunists making some propaganda, motive - incitement of the American people.

This is how many German families look like, adopted children from Africa, Vietnam, India.

 

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Muslims work there, are having their families and live peacefully in that country

a 30 feet deep crater & about 40 killed in few seconds in a country where 99% of the population is muslim.

 

full story

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a 30 feet deep crater & about 40 killed in few seconds in a country where 99% of the population is muslim.

 

full story

 

What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel?

 

 

Pakistan Daily – September 21, 2008

 

 

Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.

 

 

 

Marriot CCTV still of the truck stopped at the perimeter before it exploded

 

 

 

After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.

 

Though it would never get confirmed but the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those flours were housing the mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.

 

It is said that one member of parliament Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party was there eye witnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed.

 

And now this blast has occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on.

www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/7422-what-was-mysterious-activity-going-on-in-the-marriott-hotel-islamabad-by-united-states-marines.html

 

 

The aftermath of the truck bomb explosion at the Marriot's security perimeter.

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What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel?

Yes there's always someone else to blame

 

How would you explain this:

 

March 12, 1993 - Bombay bomb blasts, 257 deaths.

 

February 14, 1998 - Coimbatore blasts, 46 deaths.

 

October 1, 2001 - Terrorists attack Jammu-Kashmir assembly, 35 deaths.

 

December 13, 2001 - Attack on Indian parliament in New Delhi, 7 deaths.

 

September 24, 2002 - Terrorists attack the Akshardham temple in Gujarat, killing 31 innocent people.

 

March 13, 2003 - A terrorist bomb attack on a commuter train in Mumbai kills 11 people.

 

May 14, 2003 - Terrorists attack an army camp near Jammu, killing more than 30 people.

 

August 25, 2003 - Simultaneous car bombs in Mumbai, 52 deaths.

 

August 15, 2004 - Bomb Blast in Assam, killing 16 people, mostly school children.

 

July 5, 2005 - Shri Ram Janmabhoomi attack in Ayodhya

 

October 29, 2005 - Three powerful serial blasts in New Delhi at different places just two days before Hindu festival Deepawali, 70 deaths.

 

March 7, 2006 - 21 people killed in 3 synchronized terrorist attacks in Varanasi in Shri Sankatmochan Mandir and Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station.

 

July 11, 2006 - 200 people killed in a series of 7 train bombing during the evening rush hour near Mumbai.

 

August 25, 2007 - 42 people were killed in two blasts in Hyderabad’s Lumbini park and a restaurant.

 

May 13, 2008 - 63 were killed in 9 bomb blasts along 6 areas in Jaipur.

 

July 25, 2008 - 2 were killed and 20 injured in 8 low intensity bomb blasts in Bangalore.

 

July 26, 2008 - 29 were killed and over 110 injured in 17 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad.

 

September 13, 2008 - 20 were killed and over 90 injured in 5 blasts in Delhi.

 

& don't give me this "terrorists don't have a religion"

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& don't give me this "terrorists don't have a religion"

 

 

Good point, terrorists would never intend to harm the poor like street children. But what we see lately is all these high tec bombs with high tec remote controlled ignition and special high tec plastic explosives only kill the poorest of the poor, street children. Any profiler would say no, these are not terrorists but paid intelligence services.

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plastic explosives only kill the poorest of the poor, street children. Any profiler would say no, these are not terrorists but paid intelligence services.

 

who told you that only poorest of the poor are killed ?

 

you mean the poorest of the poor travel from Virar to Churchgate by electric trains in Mumbai ? or the devotees killed at the Akshardham temple were poorest of the poor or the shoppers killed at Delhi's 'Mobile' market were poorest of the poor ?

 

what about the 9/11 victims or the ones died in London, Madrid, Bali etc.

 

what about this:

 

Two Buddhist monks have been slashed to death in separate roadside attacks in southern Thailand, two days after a similar attack which police blamed on Muslim extremists.

& this:

A 19-year-old woman from western China's Turkic Muslim Uighur minority had been seized after trying to set a fire in a bathroom aboard the China Southern Boeing 757 on March 7.

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who told you that only poorest of the poor are killed ?

 

 

what about the 9/11 victims

 

Read NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/world/africa/09cairo.html

Problem is that most of these terror attacks are not investigated due government order.

 

"First among these is that Jews did not go to work at the World Trade Center on that day. Asked how Jews might have been notified to stay home, or how they kept it a secret from co-workers, people here wave off the questions because they clash with their bedrock conviction that Jews are behind many of their troubles and that Western Jews will go to any length to protect Israel."

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Read NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/world/africa/09cairo.html

Problem is that most of these terror attacks are not investigated due government order.

 

"First among these is that Jews did not go to work at the World Trade Center on that day. Asked how Jews might have been notified to stay home, or how they kept it a secret from co-workers, people here wave off the questions because they clash with their bedrock conviction that Jews are behind many of their troubles and that Western Jews will go to any length to protect Israel."

Told ya, there's always someone else to blame.

 

Hindus, Christians, Jews even Buddhists all are out to obliterate peace loving, god fearing, ahimsak, vegetarian muslims, yup

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Anti-Jew, Muslim attitudes rise in Europe: survey

 

 

oddly(?) enough anti-American sentiments are on the rise as well.

 

It is very simple: people of the world just do not like crooks, terrorists, and global bullies. It is not surprising at all. Do you see anti-Swiss, anti-Danish, or anti-Norwegian attitudes? No, you don't, because these people are not implicated in acts of global thuggery and exploitation. It does not mean that all Jews, all Muslims, and all Americans are guilty of such acts, but the general tendencies can be observed and people's sentiments reflect that reality.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/wo...a/09cairo.html

 

9/11 Rumors That Become Conventional Wisdom

September 8, 2008

CAIRO — Seven years later, it remains conventional wisdom here that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda could not have been solely responsible for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that the United States and Israel had to have been involved in their planning, if not their execution, too.

This is not the conclusion of a scientific survey, but it is what routinely comes up in conversations around the region — in a shopping mall in Dubai, in a park in Algiers, in a cafe in Riyadh and all over Cairo.

“Look, I don’t believe what your governments and press say. It just can’t be true,” said Ahmed Issab, 26, a Syrian engineer who lives and works in the United Arab Emirates. “Why would they tell the truth? I think the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com<st1:place w:st=" /><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> organized this so that they had an excuse to invade <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> for the oil.”

It is easy for Americans to dismiss such thinking as bizarre. But that would miss a point that people in this part of the world think Western leaders, especially in Washington, need to understand: That such ideas persist represents the first failure in the fight against terrorism — the inability to convince people here that the United States is, indeed, waging a campaign against terrorism, not a crusade against Muslims.

“The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> should be concerned because in order to tell people that there is a real evil, they too have to believe it in order to help you,” said Mushairy al-Thaidy, a columnist in the Saudi-owned regional newspaper Asharq al Awsat. “Otherwise, it will diminish your ability to fight terrorism. It is not the kind of battle you can fight on your own; it is a collective battle.”

There were many reasons people here said they believed that the attacks of 9/11 were part of a conspiracy against Muslims. Some had nothing to do with Western actions, and some had everything to do with Western policies.

Again and again, people said they simply did not believe that a group of Arabs — like themselves — could possibly have waged such a successful operation against a superpower like the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But they also said that <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State>’s post-9/11 foreign policy proved that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> were behind the attacks, especially with the invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.

“Maybe people who executed the operation were Arabs, but the brains? No way,” said Mohammed Ibrahim, 36, a clothing-store owner in the Bulaq neighborhood of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cairo</st1:place></st1:City>. “It was organized by other people, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> or the Israelis.”

The rumors that spread shortly after 9/11 have been passed on so often that people no longer know where or when they first heard them. At this point, they have heard them so often, even on television, that they think they must be true.

First among these is that Jews did not go to work at the <st1:place w:st="on">World Trade </ST1:PCenter </st1:place>on that day.

 

Asked how Jews might have been notified to stay home, or how they kept it a secret from co-workers, people here wave off the questions because they clash with their bedrock conviction that Jews are behind many of their troubles and that Western Jews will go to any length to protect <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>.

“Why is it that on 9/11, the Jews didn’t go to work in the building,” said Ahmed Saied, 25, who works in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cairo</st1:place></st1:City> as a driver for a lawyer. “Everybody knows this. I saw it on TV, and a lot of people talk about this.”

Zein al-Abdin, 42, an electrician, who was drinking tea and chain-smoking cheap Cleopatra cigarettes in Al Shahat, a cafe in Bulaq, grew more and more animated as he laid out his thinking about what happened on Sept. 11.

“What matters is we think it was an attack against Arabs,” he said of the passenger planes crashing into American targets. “Why is it that they never caught him, bin Laden? How can they not know where he is when they know everything? They don’t catch him because he hasn’t done it. What happened in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> confirms that it has nothing to do with bin Laden or Qaeda. They went against Arabs and against Islam to serve <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>, that’s why.”

There is a reason so many people here talk with casual certainty — and no embarrassment — about the United States attacking itself to have a reason to go after Arabs and help Israel. It is a reflection of how they view government leaders, not just in <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State>, but here in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> and throughout the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place>. They do not believe them. The state-owned media are also distrusted. Therefore, they think that if the government is insisting that bin Laden was behind it, he must not have been.

“Mubarak says whatever the Americans want him to say, and he’s lying for them, of course,” Mr. Ibrahim said of Hosni Mubarak, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s president.

Americans might better understand the region, experts here said, if they simply listen to what people are saying — and try to understand why — rather than taking offense. The broad view here is that even before Sept. 11, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> was not a fair broker in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and that it then capitalized on the attacks to buttress <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place> and undermine the Muslim Arab world.

The single greatest proof, in most people’s eyes, was the invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Trying to convince people here that it was not a quest for oil or a war on Muslims is like convincing many Americans that it was, and that the 9/11 attacks were the first step.

“It is the result of widespread mistrust, and the belief among Arabs and Muslims that the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> has a prejudice against them,” said Wahid Abdel Meguid, deputy director of the government-financed Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, the nation’s premier research center. “So they never think the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> is well intentioned, and they always feel that whatever it does has something behind it.”

Hisham Abbas, 22, studies tourism at <st1:place w:st="on">Cairo University </ST1:P</st1:place>and hopes one day to work with foreigners for a living. But he does not give it a second thought when asked about Sept. 11. He said it made no sense at all that Mr. bin Laden could have carried out such an attack from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. And like everyone else interviewed, he saw the events of the last seven years as proof positive that it was all a <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> plan to go after Muslims.

“There are Arabs who hate <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, a lot of them, but this is too much,” Mr. Abbas said as he fidgeted with his cellphone. “And look at what happened after this — the Americans invaded two Muslim countries. They used 9/11 as an excuse and went to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They killed Saddam, tortured people. How can you trust them?”

 

 

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Marriott Was Set Ablaze by Americans

 

 

By Muhammad Taimoor – Islamabad.25 September 2008

 

 

The Marriott Hotel Islamabad has turned into ashes and there seems almost nothing left. But the dubious activities of US officials are still going on. And despite what U.S. officials say, the fire at the Marriott was more complex than it looks.

 

 

 

The Marriott ablaze some thirty minutes after the initial blasts

 

 

 

For reasons still to be explained the Marriott’s own internal fire fighting system could not be brought into operation. While the force of the initial blast blew open windows and doors, which helped spread the fire later.

However according to our correspondent in Islamabad, the fire at the Marriott started in room 440 on the fourth floor, a room occupied by a US official named Mathew.

 

This occurred after the suicide bomber blew himself and the second the truck bomb exploded. At this point everybody rushed out of the Marriott.

 

Although Mathew may have wanted to join them, he first piled all his confidential documents and data along with his laptop and set them on fire before fleeing the room. Soon the fire spread, burning furniture, doors and then through the carpet and fittings to other rooms and the rest of the hotel; the flames fed with a steady supply of oxygen via the smashed windows and doors.

 

According to some reports, CIA officials and US marines occupied room 440, rooms adjacent to it and much of the 5th floor. A total of seven rooms were reportedly allocated exclusively to CIA agents, of whom there were a total of nine at the time of explosion. The agents kept changing but the rooms stayed booked for the CIA. The exact death toll of the US officials may be much higher than officially acknowledged.

 

Despite the fact that a total of 33 fire trucks fought the blaze, the Marriott could not be saved and was an inferno within thirty minutes of the first blast.

Sources say that US officials subsequently removed burnt debris from the scene, while the local media's access to those floors and rooms in the Marriott used by U.S. officials and the CIA was restricted.

Moreover on 22nd September 2008, British Airways suspended its flights to Pakistan and at the time of writing those flights remain suspended.

It is also known that on 19 September two U.S. soldiers arrived at the Marriot with mysterious luggage, which was not passed through the scanners at the entrance. One soldier reportedly took room 444 on 4th floor while the other stayed in room 326 on the 3rd. Both men checked out before dawn 5:30 AM the following day.

 

Later the same day the hotel became a blazing inferno.

 

Fire fighters say that temperatures at the blaze were extraordinarily high.

 

According to an investigative report investigators have also found a tube containing an unknown chemical, which has been sent for laboratory analysis.

 

One of the two military men that the United States has officially acknowledged dead in the incident was Major Rodolfo Rodriquez, assigned to Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, he belonged to 66th Construction and Training Squadron.

 

U.S. military authorities have still not announced what he was doing in Pakistan at the time.

 

The whole episode seems to portend a more serious situation in Pakistan.

 

Is the United States preparing to make a bigger attack on Pakistani territories as the war has reached the north western city of Kohat, close to the Afghan border and just 100 miles away from the capital Islamabad?

 

Only time will tell but as Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari assumes office dark clouds are gathering on the horizon.