Monday, July 12, 2004

France wakes up -- but why?

This Press Association (are they the same as AP?) report on the attack on a French mother on a Paris train, which I've seen in several places, states, "That the band of six attackers mistook their victim’s identity did nothing to soften the reality of the horror for France, where attacks on both Jews and Muslims have escalated over the past several years."
What an understatement. Had this woman turned out to be Jewish, would this incident have received the same coverage? I don't think so. It's primarily the irony that she wasn't Jewish which finally brought home the horror to the French (the other factor, of course, being that this attack was on a woman and child as opposed to a man or a building).

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