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When Islam calls, the West should hang up. Those who believe Israeli teens deserved to be gangraped, infants set aflame and others beheaded will shrug off the attempted murder of 140 Jewish daycare children in Detroit. THANE ROSENBAUM Distinguished University Professor Touro College
T
he baby steps we have been taking toward the Islamization of the West is hitting full stride. And if you’re Jewish and living almost anywhere you should be feeling run over by now.
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If you’re not, if you have somehow misjudged the jihadist calling cards — firebombs and vans filled with explosives, hailstorms of bullets and, of course, the defiant intolerance of religious pluralism — you’re either dead or braindead. Over the past several weeks, Islamists have declared open hunting season on Jewish houses of worship worldwide. Synagogues in New York, Los Angeles and Miami were targeted with vandalism or arson; the same with synagogues in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver; and in such far-flung jihadist destinations as France, Germany, Chile, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Italy and the outback urban centers of Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. In Holland, an explosion at an Orthodox Jewish school in Amsterdam. Hours earlier an arson attack at a Rotterdam synagogue. Four teenage Islamists belonging to The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right claimed responsibility. In Norway, in the city of Trondheim, an armed Islamist conducting reconnaissance outside a synagogue was arrested after a high-speed car chase. A bomb was set off in a synagogue in Liège, Belgium. The Belgian Jewish community has been especially besieged as of late. Since
A supporter of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel at a rally in Manhattan on Oct. 9, 2023.
2024, a nation otherwise known for chocolate has seen a surge of antisemitic incidents owing mostly to its large Muslim population. According to a recent poll in Brussels, where 20 percent of the population is Muslim, nearly half the city believes that Jews dominate banking
and manipulate markets. In Azerbaijan, police foiled terrorist plots against a synagogue and the Israeli Embassy in Baku. Three synagogue shootings took place in Toronto, Canada, all within 10 miles from one another. Bullets shattered the glass entrance at Beth
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Avraham Yoseph with two maintenance workers inside. A half hour later shots were fired at the entrance of Shaarei Shomayim. Days earlier another synagogue and a Jewish restaurant were pelted with gunfire. See Rosenbaum on page 2