The True Definition of a Hate Crime

Ilan Halimi was a young energetic Parisian by all accounts. He met a woman on line and decided to meet her. She walked in to their meeting spot a blonde, who was probably good looking. Ilan left with her and the nightmare began:

Halimi was found dying, covered with burns and cuts, on Monday February 13. He had been kidnapped three weeks earlier, after a Muslim gang sent a blonde to seduce him. Halimi had agreed to meet with her after meeting in a chat room. Immediately after his abduction his mother went to the police, saying he was kidnapped by anti-Semites. Sources in the community said three Jewish youngsters had managed to escape similar abdications in recent months.

The police told Halimi's mother, Ruth, to stop all telephone connection with the kidnappers, as a way of forcing them to use electronic mail, which was traceable.

The police did not know that during the five days in which the kidnappers tried in vain to contact Halimi's family, Halimi suffered terrible torture. One of the kidnappers said, "We put our cigarettes out on him because he was a Jew."

The French being, well French, decided at first that the case was not racially motivated:

The reports about Halimi in France did not mention that he was Jewish. Halimi's family was livid. His mother accused the authorities of ignoring the anti-Semitic factor. "Had Ilan not been Jewish, he would not have been murdered," she said. She was widely quoted in the French media, and the authorities began to retreat.

On Tuesday French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that "the murder had anti-Semitic motives." "They kidnapped and murdered him because he was Jewish - in their words, the Jews have money," he said.

But the French people know what the truth is and turned out to fight against the hatred.

Perhaps the French realize what they are really up against with the "assimilated" Muslim minority.

The silence from the left is astounding. As I said the other day about neoliberals, they are a disgrace to paleoliberals.

Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities has more as does Sigmund, Carl and Alfred.