French interior minister and other European Jewry condemn Marine Le Pen's dumb response
Marine Le Pen's botch of a statement got her some reaction by people who realize just how dreadful she's being, though she was willing to offer a clarification:
The really stupefying thing about some of these politicians and such who say they're opposed to Islamofascism is that they seem to think they can only gain the legitimacy to do so if they attack Judaism as well. Which is cowardice and dampens the impact they could've had.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday assured the country's Jews that they could wear their kippas "with pride", in a dismissal of far-right leader Marine Le Pen's call for a ban.Tell you what, Mme. Le Pen: if you had argued that maybe Jewish women should refrain from wearing hairscarves used in some religious marriages, even though it's not mandatory and doesn't have to cover all the hair, and provides a lot clearer identity for a woman, then maybe you'd have a worthy argument to make. But the kippa definitely doesn't hide identities like a balaclava, so that was a dumb thing to say.
"Yes, France's Jews -- as the interior minister is doing today -- can wear their kippa with pride," Valls said at a traditional Jewish New Year ceremony at a Paris synagogue. [...]
She later explained that she was merely asking Jews to make "this little effort, the small sacrifice" to put everybody on an equal footing and rebut the charge that a ban on the veil represented Islamophobia. She admitted, however, that there was no comparison between the veil and a kippa.
The really stupefying thing about some of these politicians and such who say they're opposed to Islamofascism is that they seem to think they can only gain the legitimacy to do so if they attack Judaism as well. Which is cowardice and dampens the impact they could've had.
Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, France, islam, Judaism
