Dieudonne gets charged for mouthing off with anti-Semitic slurs
Dieudonne, the pseudo-comedian whom Jean-Marie Le Pen has been getting chummy with lately, has been charged by a French court for his anti-Semitism:
(IsraelNN.com) The French High Court has overruled a lower court decision and decided that humorist Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala slurred Jews in January 2002. In an interview with a newspaper, he was quoted as saying, "Racism was created by Abraham. The 'Chosen People' [is] the beginning of racism. Muslims today are just answering back."Dieudonne was making racist cracks, and in the second paragraph, he was trying to confuse the differences between the Jewish race and its founding religion. His slur is definitely bizarre.
He also stated that "anti-Semitism does not exist because the Jews do not exist.... In my opinion, the Jews are a sect, a rip-off."
A lower court has decided that the remarks were aimed against the influence of religion and not against Jews, but the High Court ruled in favor of Jewish groups who appealed the decision.
Labels: anti-semitism
