Not long ago, a thread was started about the JDL France: are they real Kahanists ?
http://jtf.org/forum/index.php/topic,52693.0.htmlAs I happen to live in France right now, and there is a substantial Jewish community there (around 800,000 Jews), I said I would get in touch with them and try to gauge whether they are reliable and whether we might think of starting some sort of alliance with them.
I have been posting extensively on their forum for the last month (in French, of course), publicizing JTF and Chaim's struggle and spreading JTF's message.
My posts have drawn a lot of reactions.
On the upside, the forum's administrator, Amnon Cohen, who is apparently the man in charge there, seems to have no connection with Shelley Rubin, and he responded positively to me, suggesting we should meet. I still don't know him very well, but so far, he seems to me to be a good man with good principles.
On the downside, the posts I wrote, which accurately reflect those - numerous - views of Chaim with which I completely agree, have drawn some very negative, sometimes hysterical, responses from some regular members of this forum. It looks like a sizeable proportion of their members are violently anti-religious. Some of them literally hate Judaism. You know me, I'm not exactly the most religious person in JTF although I do love Judaism and my fellow religious Jews, well, guess what, I was called "ultra-orthodox" and harshly insulted for that ! To give you an example of how far their hatred and their craziness go, I had to remind them that, according to the Halacha, a Jew is someone whose mother is Jewish or who went through a halachic conversion process. I said that they were free to have their own opinion of the rule, but that's the rule, and nobody is allowed to change it on his own initiative. They called me a Nazi and a Judenrat for saying this !! They said that anyone who says he feels Jewish is a Jew !
There are also a number of dhimmis out there who cannot stand hearing the basic truths about Islam that I remind them. They say that I incite hate and violence just because I explain to them why Muslims cannot be trusted.
To what extent these people are representative of the movement's views is hard to say, but they have been very active fighting me. The administrator, Amnon Cohen, rarely intervened to define the movement's "official" position on the issues I brought up, but on the few occasions he did, he turned out to be - carefully - supportive of me.
For the moment, I am wary of going to their meetings because I received threats for what I said. But I am definitely creating a stir by posting a lot and starting heated debates.
One good outcome is that I know for sure I am positively influencing some members there with JTF's message.
Topic: An update about the JDL France (Read 3943 times)