Since the months leading up to the Iraq war, anti-Semitism has been on the rise in France. But this should attack skirts domestic terrorism.

Six people attacked a young mother on a suburban Paris train, chopping off her hair and scribbling swastikas on her stomach in what leaders denounced Sunday as an example of growing anti-Semitism.

As the 23-year-old woman was assaulted Friday, other train passengers watched but did nothing to help her or her infant child, who was knocked out of a stroller.

NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON helped this woman? I realize that the French are pacifists but this seems rediculous. I've always heard stories of people in big cities (in America and abroad) looking the other way when people are in need of help, but I've never actually experienced it. I would like to think that had I witnessed six thugs attacking a mother and her child, I would step in to help. Then again, if France didn't have a near total ban on handguns, perhaps this woman could have defended herself.