Roland Hechtenberg writes: > > On a more serious note, I do find it odd and excessively PC that it was > > OK to mention the religion of the victim but not the religion of the > > attackers. > > I don't follow your reasoning here. > With antisemitic hate crimes, the religion of the victims is obvious, > but unless the perpetrators are caught, the religion of the perpetrators > is not known.
In this case, the suspects WERE caught. They were described as "four French teenagers" but their religion was not explicitly mentioned in the AP piece. Their religion was only implied obliquely as being Muslim by such statements as "France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities and a history of anti-Semitic violence flaring when tensions in the Middle East are high." > No excessive PC involved, unless I missed something. Please go back and read the article again. You do seem to have missed something but what you missed is the absence of something. Regards, Alan Siegrist Orinda, CA, USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
