Reply #45: Europe [View All]

[Muddleoftheroad]

You are too quick to give Europe a pass and blame its past actions on religion. Quick question, name the continent of the Inquisition and the Holocaust.

As for America, you actually make part of my point. America DOES NOT have the same history of anti-Semitism. OK, so we luck out because of our age, but that also means it's not ingrained in our culture like it is there.

As for France, people keep using it as an example, but the French Jewish population would be a lot larger if the French hadn't helped the Germans kill so many French Jews. You can't just blame it on Vichy. Vichy was France. In addition, the rising tide of anti-Semitism in that nation may well cause a substantial decline in the Jewish population there.

No, the truth of the matter is two-fold:

* Europe never had must use for Jews and tended to kill them when they felt like it. Now, on some level, they feel it is OK for Arabs to do the same.
* Europe needs oil just like other nations and relies heavily on the Arab world to get it.