Monday, February 27, 2006
France Stages Demonstrations Against Anti-Semitism
John Hindraker remembers Ilan Halimi and excoriates the MSM for their willful ignorance of his story:
Earlier today, tens of thousands of Frenchmen, including prominent politicians of all stripes, participated in demonstrations in Paris and other cities commemorating the murder of Ilan Halimi and demonstrating against anti-Semitism. The crowd in Paris was estimated at 33,000 by police; other estimates were higher.
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It's hard to excuse this level of obtuseness [in the press about the fact that Halimi's torturers/murderers were Muslims]. I don't doubt that Halimi's murderers wanted money. The fact that they abducted him might have been "primarily motivated by greed." But greed doesn't explain anything that they did over the ensuing three weeks. Greed doesn't explain why Halimi was tortured to death. The world wasn't shocked by this crime because of the abduction; it was shocked by what followed. So I wish the media would stop trying to tell us that the vicious animals who murdered Ilan Halimi were just hoping to get rich.
Earlier today, tens of thousands of Frenchmen, including prominent politicians of all stripes, participated in demonstrations in Paris and other cities commemorating the murder of Ilan Halimi and demonstrating against anti-Semitism. The crowd in Paris was estimated at 33,000 by police; other estimates were higher.
...
It's hard to excuse this level of obtuseness [in the press about the fact that Halimi's torturers/murderers were Muslims]. I don't doubt that Halimi's murderers wanted money. The fact that they abducted him might have been "primarily motivated by greed." But greed doesn't explain anything that they did over the ensuing three weeks. Greed doesn't explain why Halimi was tortured to death. The world wasn't shocked by this crime because of the abduction; it was shocked by what followed. So I wish the media would stop trying to tell us that the vicious animals who murdered Ilan Halimi were just hoping to get rich.
