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Anti-Semitism has increased in newly democratic Arab states.<br />
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« Anti-Semitism has increased in newly democratic Arab states.
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Anti-Semitism Surges as Islamists Complete ‘Arab Spring’ Conquest

January 25, 2012 | From theTrumpet.com

Democracy is not the solution to Muslim hatred of Jews that analysts believed it would be.

 

Many Westerners long argued that ushering greater democratic freedoms into the Middle East would reduce or remove regional Muslim contempt for Israel, the Jewish people and the broader Western world. Over the past year, as tyrants were toppled in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, and very nearly in Syria, that hypothesis has been tested.

And it has been exposed as bunk.

Rather than quelling the Muslim hatred toward Israel and the Jews, democratic freedom has led these nations to grant more power to Islamist forces. It has also led to an explosion of anti-Semitic sentiment in the newly liberated nations.

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