Fleeing Populations? (Joe Gandelman)
Islam-related turmoil may be causing population shifts in two parts of the world:
(1)There are conflicting reports but at least some indicate western workers may be wavering in what has been called their determination not to be intimidated by Al Qaeda terrorists.
(2)And many French Jews could be leaving France due to increasing problems there.
there has been some juden violence in france for around a decade now. and with a muslim influx from algeria, it is probably getting on jewish nerves. i wonder what the statistics are?
I'm almost surprised France still has any Jews since Vichy and Dreyfus. Still, 'tis tragic. France was once the center of our Western high culture.
This is the Decline of the West. Atlas is shrugging.
I have friends who worked in the KSA for years. They were very highly paid medical professionals. However, for the female of the pair, the respect stopped at the hospital doors. They sent us postcards from all over the world on their many vacations- but curiously, none from inside KSA. Finally, about five years ago, they'd finally had it and moved to Portland, OR- A more different place you could not find!
And that was years before 9/11.
I have met several French Jews (and Greek too) now living in London because of fears for their safety.