Visited those cemeteries just this spring. Beautiful, very well kept and dignified. Appropriate for the fallen.
The Germans and French will claim this to be “mobs”, disenfranchised youth. The political left can’t accept the fact that we are in a global war against radical Islamists. It would also pressure the Germans and French to act more in this war, which they do not want to. So they feel compelled to downplay the significance and true reasons for these problems. In France as in Germany these people REFUSE to integrate. In fact, they see the French and Germans as the “infidels”, the dirty decedent perverts. The Germans “ONCE” reported on the hate preached in those Mosques in Germany. Quickly forgotten and buried in the mass trash media. Does not fit into the “all is well”, “It’s an American made up issue and really just about the oil”. Bottom line is that you actually have a point.
1. The Islamist will go after weak spots (opportunistic). Once the French crack down they will want to strike out elsewhere. Defacing US cemeteries is an easy target and a low threat.
2. It’s predominantly Christian and Jews buried there, so it’s no skin off their nose to deface them.
3. The US has become the leading nation in the fight against radical Islam, so we are target #1.
Our cemeteries could potentially be vandalized. Of course when that happens the European media will say it’s the mad Islamists who hate the hegemony USA for helping Israel or maybe because of the Iraq war. Central Continental Europe has gone “stupid”.
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I strongly doubt that the children of immigrants, living in these cruddy ghettoes on the outskirts of the cities, have any idea these cemeteries exist or how to get to them. It's just not on the radar.
I could just as easily question why so many people are concerned about Normandy without expressing any concern about the many World War I graveyards that are much closer to Paris and immigrant communities in northern France. All this shows is that people don't have a great perspective on what's going on and why.