Below is a very disturbing video of the responses that Zvika Klein, a reporter for Jewish news outlet NRG, received when he walked through streets of Paris wearing a yarmulke and a tzitzit (knotted ritual tassels). The video shows the level of anti-Semitism even in our capital cities around the world.
Klein walked around with a bodyguard while a photographer filmed him with a camera hidden in a backpack.
They film as Klein is called a “dog” and even spat at by people walking by. He walked through Jewish neighborhoods, around the Eiffel Tower, but mostly went through Muslim neighborhoods. He was surprised to receive “belligerent remarks” even in tourist areas, though on the whole they were much better than the Muslim or Arab neighborhoods.
Some comments were particularly shocking like a young boy asking “What is he doing here Mommy? Doesn’t he know he will be killed?”
In truth, I expect that Muslims wearing religious grab face the same type of commentary and attacks in some areas. However, the film captures the deep and growing divide on religion around the world, including the West.
Ari, I trust your take implicitly when it comes to this subject. Others have been exposed. As I’ve said, it is soon coming to gut check time. I always had enormous respect David Kaczynski, brother of Ted. After reading the Unabomber Manifesto he knew it was his brother. What a courageous decision he made calling the FBI and turning in his brother. Does anyone doubt he did the tough, but right thing? Well, there are sleeper cells here. And, knowing a little about the criminal mind, dealing w/ it for 30 plus years, I know there are people who know them, and know their plans. They need to step up like David Kaczynski did. It’s not complicated, but I know it’s tough.
Po,
This woman spent 5 hours walking through New York being occasionally harassed while wearing Western clothing, and then 5 hours not being harassed while wearing a hijab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgw6y3cH7tA
Nick … I understand your idea about Europe versus the USA. My inclination on that subject is to think that the Europeans never brought the Muslims in to be co-equals, and encouraged the ghetto mentality. They now reap what they sowed.
That said, we have our nut cases here, with blogs, who rant and rave about what they have studiously avoided understanding. Among the worst nationally was Sharon Angle, she who assured all that my town was under Sharia law (which is nonsense … I bout even 5% would approve it here) who assured Harry Reid of his newest term in the Senate. I’d hope the folks in Nevada can put up a better candidate, one with less ignorance, than Ms Angle, in the future.
Pogo
I am selling some passes for $19.99, buy 2 get one free. When we take over the country and establish shariah law, that pass will keep you safe.
Just make sure your check clears BEFORE the muslims take over.
Ari, I have no doubt of your reality in Michigan. The reality in Europe is starkly different.
Agree with you, Ari. That point however doesn’t negate mine. None of my sisters wear it, and my mom who is well learned and an Islamic scholar doesn’t either. The hijab is really a cultural artifact more so than a religious one.
I have heard from many women who no longer wear it out of fear. Some fatwas have even been issued permitting that.
What Nick said about editing. Good editing is necessary, but should not exclude any exculpatory features. My experience is that 50 minutes, or less, is about the limit for attention to a video or film…if honest, you can include both sides within that time frame.
Po….do a brief cruise though my 90% Arab Muslim neighborhood and you will see far more Muslim women who abandon the niqab because they can do so here, and more yet who abandon the hijab as well for the same reasons. An almost comical version is the teen age to twenty something girl who wears the hijab over tee shirts and jeans as tight as tape…an in between step I presume. I don’t mind that a bit, since many are quite beautiful. In my neighborhood there certainly is no condemnation for wearing the hijab, so that cannot be the reason for the changes.
I’ve said before that I like it here and part of the reason is that I can actually see a “melting pot” occur before my eyes. Arab Muslims are not “new” here, actually they’ve been here since the turn of the 20th century. I know how to greet an observant Muslim woman (tap on your own shoulder, with a slight nod, not a hand shake) until you know them almost as well as family. My outlook seems to be reciprocated. If I give a bit of respect, I seem to receive it as well. As I’ve also said elsewhere to day, I may be naive, but I am happy none-the-less.
“For the argument against racism to really take a hold it has to be made to expose racism in its purest form”
Taking film that satisfies your criteria is a waste of time.
The proof is right in front of you.
Jews are leaving France and the EU in droves.
The Muslims are moving in.
Coming soon: Sharia law in Muslim areas of France.
I shoot surveillance insurance fraud video for a living. On many cases, I will have 8,10, 20 hours of footage. A jury does not want to watch that much video. So, I usually edit it down to under 30 minutes, the length of a US sitcom. Most of all surveillance footage is mundane and incredibly boring, it is like an Andy Warhol flick of a camera just shooting an office building. There’s NOTHING happening. The KEY to the editing, in determining if it is a FAIR edit, is, was anything exculpatory edited out? In my videos, that means was any footage edited out showing the allegedly injured plaintiff exhibiting pain behaviors. I NEVER did that. That is corroborated by the fact that I ALWAYS left in any pain behaviors. And, all of the raw footage was introduced as evidence. Anyone could watch it all to determine my veracity. My record over 30 plus years is spotless. If you testify for a living, you have to have integrity. For me it comes naturally.
It is a boilerplate criticism, almost always hollow, when someone screams, “It was edited.” Anything you watch that is broadcast is almost always edited. Indeed, when you are shown raw footage it is pointed out, because it’s so rare. That is not to say the critique is entirely w/o merit. The INTELLIGENT question is, as it always is, was anything exculpatory edited out? Of course there is plenty of mundane footage, it’ surveillance w/ a camera running for chrissake. The question is, was there any footage of Muslims smiling, waving, nodding kindly, edited out? Without question, there was hours of footage w/ nothing happening edited out.
Finally, editing down 10 hours to 90 seconds is not evidence of a misleading edit. On one case, I had over 20 hours of a plaintiff who lied through his teeth to the jury. I had, as I routinely do prior to the trial, prepared an edited 30 minute video. There was nothing exculpatory edited out, but there was MUCH video that was damaging to the plaintiff cut. There was just SO MUCH. But, during the plaintiff’s cross examination by my client[defense attorney] the plaintiff testified he could not work on autos @ all like he could prior to the auto accident, which was the subject of his complaint. He testified he had not once worked on a car since the accident. My original edit had some of his working on cars. But there was probably 8 or 9 days I just edited out. I edited in 2 or 3 clips of the plaintiff working on cars in my 30 minute version, and figured that was a good sample. But, when my client told me what the plaintiff testified on cross I suggested I make another short edit, it was 4 minutes or so, of quick clips showing every day this guy worked on cars. It was devastating and proper. The plaintiff got nothing.
This is one of my areas of expertise. The complaints about editing of this video are BOGUS, unless there is footage edited out showing Muslims exhibiting kindness to this man.
An interesting experiment, or perhaps surfacing would be a more appropriate word, would be to film this sort of thing happening to different sorts by different sorts and lay out the work side by side. It is all part of the same formula, be it DNA, learned, or both. Films of the perverse and ‘exotic’ treatment extreme Moslems in their enclaves met out to those that differ as well as to themselves, films of the perverse and ‘exotic’ treatment extreme Jews in their enclaves met out to those that differ as well as to themselves, films of extremes Christians from stating that all those who don’t believe are going to hell to the pogroms going on in Africa, all placed one next to the other would more clearly tell the story.
This film fails in the way it was a set up and even when edited was obviously one guy baiting low lives where low lives live. For the argument against racism to really take a hold it has to be made to expose racism in its purest form and not only from the perspective of one victimized group. This was a lame film.
How about filming areas in Jerusalem where they throw stones at people who drive through the neighborhood on a Saturday, or they spit on girls who don’t cover their bodies from head to toe. How about presenting the Sharia law examples next to the stories of a man refusing to finalize a Jewish divorce, holding his ex wife down in her religion. Perhaps presenting a film of the flogging of someone in Saudi Arabia who spoke his mind.
For us to really understand how insidious all this stuff is we need to see it side by side in its worst form. This lame film does more to present this guy as nothing but a whiner, a kid that looks for trouble and then asks for sympathy when he gets it. The main problem with racist attitudes in France lie in the tradition of European Christians to blame the Jews for Christ’s crucifixion, the envy of people for the wealth and success of a tightly knit cultural and economic group, and the fact that there are thirty plus times more Moslems in France than Jews. The Islamic world was part of France for hundreds of years. Algeria was seen as a department as French as any other.
David, do a quick search online and you’ll find enough evidence of muslim women who no longer wear the hijab, the scarf, due to the intensity of the verbal and physical abuse they receive, especially in Britain.
Even almost universally respected royalty faces harassment when walking 10 hours in New York.
“One and a half minutes of epithets from a 10 hour walk?”
In 25 years of walking in my town every day, I don’t yet have 1.5 minutes of epithets.
And no children ever said to me, “What is he doing here Mommy? Doesn’t he know he will be killed?“
There was also the case of the Jewish girl from Chicago, 8 years old at the time, who was regularly terrorized while walking to school by men who would spit at her and call a whore.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/american-girl-8-is-target-of-ultra-orthodox-jews-in-israel/1
One and a half minutes of epithets from a 10 hour walk?
The wave of anti-Semitism throughout the world, particularly Europe, is deeply disturbing. Even someone who only got C’s in history knows the last time this occurred.
Thank you spiral007 for you insight.
This video reminded me of the well-endowed woman in the tight pants who walked around the NYC ghettos for hours to prove how crappilly women are treated by men, who happened to be mostly black and brown.
Anytime a video is made then edited to prove a point, the point proven is to be wary of.
Prof Turley is offering click bait, and the usual suspects flock to it like cockroaches. Based on these comments, above, some of you are no better than the people you are attacking.
Perhaps every ethnicity and/ or religion ought to adorn itself in the garb of his racial/ religious identity then walk around town recording it. I can guarantee you that none of us would escape unscathed.
po wrote: “Perhaps every ethnicity and/ or religion ought to adorn itself in the garb of his racial/ religious identity then walk around town recording it. I can guarantee you that none of us would escape unscathed.”
I’m not so sure about this experience holding true for Muslims. They probably get a little more than average respect in public.
BTW…I won’t object if some call me naive. They might be right. I just have to go with what I’ve experienced. When war is involved, politics are involved, and that is the pollutant. You cannot really succeed in war if you do not try to determine the cause and what the native peoples want…which is why I find LTG Krulaks’ concepts so appealing…and they were successful where tried. In some places, such as Iraq post Saddam, it didn’t work out as well, but that reverted back to old religious or political strife that we just could not seem to abrogate. We had more to learn, and today we don’t have the forces to do so in any large way.
Just for the record, I do not understand antisemitism. Especially in the US of A. In a world of nearly 7 billion people, a total population of maybe 17 million Jewish people hardly seems threatening. The ones I call friends are solid Americans or Israelis….not extreme in any way. Sure, I’ve run across the utra-orthodox Jews that can be irritating and rude, sometimes to the extreme. Same for the very few Arab Muslims, living near me, who still wear their crying towel old desert head dress occasionally, usually making their wives walk behind them on a sidewalk, etc. I’ve certainly seen aberrant Christians, such as Terry Jones (he seems to like visiting my town) or the Phelps crew who defile veteran funerals. Among us there will always be provocateurs of one kind or another…but making a fuss over them only gives them power, or at least lets them think they have power.
Good grief, have I become a Pollyanna of sorts…when I’m willing to let people identify themselves without peripheral tags of my own making? Oddly, not long ago there were no Arab Muslims living near me who did not know of my affiliation with the US Amy, sometimes by a hat I might be wearing…and I never felt or heard a single objection….actually more reflected respect over all….perhaps more than I deserved. It does occur to me that ISIL or other extremist group may gain a foothold in my town, because they can “hide” so easily, but I doubt I’ll have much trouble identifying them individually or as a group. Detroit has had racial issues for a very long time, some of it ameliorating now. When meeting, even just in passing, I find about 19 out of 20 black Americans meet a smile with a smile, and often with a verbal nicety as well.
After 72 years of living, sometimes half a world away, I’m still puzzle by overt racism…and that might be because in those far away places I was the minority with a job to be the best example of an American rather than the worst. This ideal may get me killed one day, but I won’t regret the attempt to be part of one people anywhere and every where.