On Saturday, I spoke at length with Joseph, a French Jew who had family members and friends inside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris when it was stormed by Amedy Coulibaly, an Islamic jihadist who ultimately murdered at least four Jews for the cause of Islam. He spoke to the families and some of the survivors, and told me some shocking and terrible details about what happened during the attack – revealed here for the very first time.
When I spoke to Joseph, he was grief-stricken: “I lost a good friend and it’s very hard, very hard. You have no idea how difficult it is.” Joseph was close friends with Yohan Cohen, who was murdered in the jihad attack. Coulibaly was threatening to kill a three year-old, and Cohen tried to save the child by grabbing Coulibaly’s gun; the jihadist shot Cohen in the head.
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Vox has something to say about this that isn't easy to read, but hard to disagree with - Diversifying cultures has no successes to show for it, even for the Jews - assimilation is not a goal of the Jews nor the muslims nor the Hindus nor the Latin world, to name some major groups. Can we all just get along? Some of us can, the ones who believe in the power of the Individual over Group identity. We are dwindling in numbers, I fear, as everyone is being forced on some level to choose sides.
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Thanks and I imagine you saw Fred on this.
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