Muslim outrage at French attempt to REWRITE the Koran to delete verses calling for ‘murder of Jews, Christians and unbelievers’
By Afp and Julian Robinson for MailOnline:
A French manifesto calling for passages of the Koran to be deleted on the grounds of rising anti-Semitism has sparked outrage among Muslims amid claims their religion was being unfairly ‘put on trial’.
An open letter published in the French media blamed ‘Islamist radicalisation’ for a ‘quiet ethnic purging’ in the Paris region, with abuse forcing Jewish families to move out.
The manifesto, whose signatories included ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former PM Manuel Valls, called for verses of the Koran calling for the ‘murder and punishment of Jews, Christians and disbelievers’ to be removed on the grounds that they are ‘obsolete’.
But Muslim leaders say the nearly 300 signatories were blaming a whole religion for the actions of an extremist minority.
Days after the manifesto was released, 30 imams signed a counter-letter in French newspaper Le Monde while the Observatory for Islamophobia called its contents ‘hateful racism’.
After a series of high-profile attacks on Jews, Muslim leaders contacted by AFP acknowledged that anti-Semitism was a problem in France.
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