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David Galbraith has dug out a pertinent fact from the Pew Center report on the Islam-West “rift.”

According to the results of this 14,000 person study about how much all of the various Abrahamic sects hate each other in various parts of the world, there is a little reported fact due to the focus on Muslim vs Christian relations.

86% of French view Jews favorably (almost exactly the same number as view Christians favorably: 87%) much more than in the US, UK or, in particular, Spain which would appear to be the place to look objectively for signs of the fastest growing anti-semitism.

There is also less difference in absolute percentage terms between how favorably people view Jews vs Christians in Germany than in the US.

Not what squarely unbalanced Fox News would have us believe.

Indeed, even though reading right wing blogs and such may have a detrimental effect on you sanity (in a Lovecraftian kind of way) I would recommend a Googling on the topic and see the sweeping generalizations at work. In reality, it’s all a hoax perpetrated by lazy research, ignorance, Americans (pretty much amounts to ignorance then) and the Holocaust Industry and their apologists. But I guess that with 86% viewing Jews favorably, the spun headline will be that 14% of the French are deeply “anti-Semitic,” right?