“Like always, first they attack or steal or kill, then they bring the media to lie about it,” said the man, who identified himself to me as Mohammed abu-Chaich, a security guard at Charles de Gaulle Airport. “I hate Jews, I’m not ashamed to say it. “They initiated the war in Algeria just to kill Arabs,” abu-Chaich, who is in his 40s, told me of his country’s civil war, waged by Islamists. “Hitler killed them for similar reasons,” he added loudly as others around him nodded approvingly. Feeling sad from my conversation with abu-Chaich (I didnt tell him I was Jewish), I went into a Cameroonian restaurant for dinner. It wasnt long before I ended up chatting with some of the patrons about Africa — a continent where I have worked and which I love. Ten minutes into the conversation, two of my interlocutors invited me to stay with them during my next visit to Yaounde. I was feeling tipsy from the cheap banana beer and happy to have my new Cameroonian friends restore my faith in mankind when one of them began speaking hopefully of the bright future that lay ahead for his country when it finally taps its massive reserves of liquid gas. “It will be heaven,” he said. “I just hope the Jews don’t take it away from us like they did in Germany before Hitler used that gas to kill them.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read more: Coming face to face with anti-Semites in Paris | The Times of Israel timesofisrael/coming-face-to-face-with-anti-semites-in-paris/#ixzz3AZfEtxr4 Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook
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