Ann posted on the riots in Malmo, Sweden, last week. Sweden has let in hundreds of thousands of refugees, who have changed Swedish society in fundamental ways. The article she linked to in the Jerusalem Post didn’t mention this, but Europe News reports:
…they were not just protesting against the Israeli tennis team’s participation in the Davis Cup match in the Baltiska Hallen sports facility. They, the mob of Muslim protesters, were shouting:
“Khaybar Khaybar ya Yahoud, Jaish Muhammad SAUF ya’ud”
Europe News provides a translation of a Swedish blogger, Samuel Danofsky, who explains:
A translation of the chant is:
[Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, Muhammad’s army will return]
It refers to an attack by Mohammad on a Jewish society in particular in the year 629, at the oasis of Khaybar, currently Saudi Arabia. The battle ended with the Mohammed’s Army killing 93 Jews and sent a large number into exile. You can read more about it here, here and here. I have sent a notification to JK with an invitation to look at whether this can be classed as an “incitement to hatred”. For I me, it feels that if in a public place a mood can be whipped up against the Jewish community with such words, then it can be considered a criminal offense.
We saw some of this kind of thing in this country at demonstrations during the recent war in Gaza (posts are here and here) with demonstrators shouting about Jews needing ovens, a sign “Death to all Juice” and other anti-Jewish sentiments. I’d like to know just how widespread this attitude is among Muslims in the United States. I’ve never seen a report of a survey that tried to find out. Pew did a large survey of Muslims in 2007 and asked many questions, but none of them touched on Muslims’ attitude toward Jews.