Moving article about Halimi's mother, with some denial included

Read it all, but here is the denial part:

“It was an open secret in the neighborhood that a Jew was being held and tortured, and nobody called the police anonymously, not one person,” she says, shaking her head. “The elevator was blocked for 10 days and people were guarding the door to the apartment, and nobody called the police. It was not that all those neighbors were anti-Semitic. It’s more that they simply did not care.”

She doesn’t find it difficult to believe that most French people do not think this was an anti-Semitic crime.

She agrees, in fact.

“Everyone agrees that this is a sick crime,” she says, “but beyond that, most French people simply do not care, one way or the other. That’s the way they are.”“It was an open secret in the neighborhood that a Jew was being held and tortured, and nobody called the police anonymously, not one person,” she says, shaking her head. “The elevator was blocked for 10 days and people were guarding the door to the apartment, and nobody called the police. It was not that all those neighbors were anti-Semitic. It’s more that they simply did not care.”

She doesn’t find it difficult to believe that most French people do not think this was an anti-Semitic crime.

“Everyone agrees that this is a sick crime,” she says, “but beyond that, most French people simply do not care, one way or the other. That’s the way they are."

And guess the ethnicity of the person they didn't care about . . .

She is careful to say she has nothing against Muslims.

“I grew up with Muslims in Casablanca, in Morocco,” she says. “I never had any problems, never. The problem is with France. I think the country has become sick from a lack of feelings, a lack of emotion.”

There have been some developments in the Muslim world since she was young. I feel very sorry for her.

Tags: France, Halimi, Islam, anti-Semitism