Posted on 06/24/2004 9:48:23 AM PDT by presidio9
Nazi vandals have struck at the Muslim community in the Alsace region of eastern France, desecrating 48 graves of Muslim soldiers with swastikas and "SS" inscriptions.
The vandals smashed seven Muslim gravestones overnight in the military cemetery in this town north of Strasbourg, capital of the region which has seen about a dozen graffiti attacks on Muslim, Jewish and Christian sites in recent weeks.
In a statement, on Thursday, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin expressed "indignation at this new manifestation of hate, which is particularly unbearable because it concerns soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice to defend the freedom of France."
A desecration of Muslim graves in Strasbourg last week prompted President Jacques Chirac to announce a new drive to end ethnic intolerance in France.
Villepin visited local Muslim leaders after that attack to announce the creation of an interfaith committee to work towards greater tolerance and understanding.
Local Muslim leaders reported seven attacks against Muslim sites in Strasbourg in April, including graffiti saying "death to Arabs". Most Muslims in France are of North African origin.
France is home to Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish minorities, both of which have sizable communities in Alsace.
Perhaps the vandals weren't themselves "Nazis" but were implying that the Muslims are?
As ususal Al propaganda got it wrong. The swazticas were probably meant to reflect the face of Islam.
The French authorities have sat back at watched while a torrent of antisemitic acts are plaguing their country and nothing is done about it.
The perpetrators were not necessarily Jews, but just somebody who was getting angry about the vile descration of Jewish, American, and French graves by Muslims.
If the government doesn't show some sort of good faith and make a genuine effort to control the Muslim problem, there will be much more of this. You get vigilante action when the rule of law breaks down, as it clearly has.
Thank you for the clarification. I let my distaste for that weasel take over.
American "palaeos" (Original Dissent, Liberty Forum, Carol on the Web, David Duke, Liberty Lobby) certainly support the moslems up to wazoo. I find it hard to believe that European Nazis are any different (especially considering their "boycott Israel" crusade).
Oh cry me a river...
Vandalize more!
If it were Jewis graves being vandalized it never would have been reported.
desecrating 48 graves of Muslim soldiers with swastikas and "SS" inscriptionsNews to me that any Moslem soldiers fought in France *against* Hitler, but I suppose it's possible there were some from liberated (by the US and UK) North Africa.
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