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Muslim soldiers’ tombs desecrated in France
bostonherald.com via AP ^ | December 8, 2008 | AP

Posted on 12/08/2008 5:01:37 AM PST by GQuagmire

PARIS — Officials say that several hundred tombs of Muslim soldiers have been desecrated in northern France in an act the French president is denouncing as "repugnant racism."

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; mohammedanism; mohammedanism122008; muslims
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1 posted on 12/08/2008 5:01:37 AM PST by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire

Is the counter-insurgency gaining traction?

Anger can be a good motivator.


2 posted on 12/08/2008 5:02:53 AM PST by Canedawg ("The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it")
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To: GQuagmire

Was it racism when thugs went after American graves?


3 posted on 12/08/2008 5:05:23 AM PST by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: Canedawg

Mmmm..... seems a soft target to me, and if these Muslims fought for France then this is an insult to brave men.

But that may not be the case - the article is unclear....


4 posted on 12/08/2008 5:06:58 AM PST by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: GQuagmire

It’s always horrible to see graves desecrated. But, then again, maybe the Muzzies have brought this on themselves?


5 posted on 12/08/2008 5:09:54 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: GQuagmire

These could be graves of soldiers who fought for France, either in WWII, or in Algeria. They could very well have been attacked by Moslem extremists.

Attacking graves, in any case, is not a brave act.


6 posted on 12/08/2008 5:12:00 AM PST by docbnj
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To: vimto

I know, the article is unclear.

It’s hard to rely on much of anything any MSM tells us these days.

It was a soft target, but it may have been a symbolic gesture of anger towards the growing muzlim movement there.

Hard to know for sure.


7 posted on 12/08/2008 5:12:21 AM PST by Canedawg ("The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it")
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“Soldiers who fought in World War I are buried there.”

....I think France used Morrocan units at the Front...Morocco was the wedge than opened Islamic immigration into France....now there are more mosques in southern France than cathederals....western Christendom is losing the will to defend itself.


8 posted on 12/08/2008 5:12:30 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: GQuagmire
Racism is judging a person or a group based upon his or their race, rather than who they are or what they believe. For me, abhorring Islamic Swine is all about what they do and what they believe about me. It has nothing whatsoever to do with their race, were they all to be of the same race which they are not.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 12/08/2008 5:13:30 AM PST by ml/nj
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If these were men who fought for France is it possible they were desecrated by muslims who consider them traitors? Or desecrated by muslims in a bid to gain sympathy for “persecution”?


10 posted on 12/08/2008 5:16:03 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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SOMEONE WANT TO REMIND ME WHAT RACE "MUSLIM" OR "ISLAM" IS AGAIN???
11 posted on 12/08/2008 5:16:23 AM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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I think the French are going to sit back and accept the destruction of their society only to a certain point. Then they will erupt in an orgy of violence that will remind people of the worst of the 20th Century, and finish the job themselves.

It is a shame, because if they had taken rational and reasonable action early on, this all could have been prevented, and everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim, would have been better off.


12 posted on 12/08/2008 5:19:59 AM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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"repugnant racism."

???

"muslim" is not a race, it is a religion.

Oy....

13 posted on 12/08/2008 5:24:49 AM PST by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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Desecration of graves is never acceptable, especially those of military who fought for their country. Plenty of live, guilty targets around, but the dead should be allowed to RIP.


14 posted on 12/08/2008 5:25:36 AM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Standing for America! 63% for McCain-Palin on 4 Nov)
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How does anybody get away with referring to membership in a devil-worshiping quasi-religion as a “race” in a country which used to claim intellectual preeminence in Europe?


15 posted on 12/08/2008 5:29:43 AM PST by wendy1946
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16 posted on 12/08/2008 5:36:50 AM PST by maggief
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Calling actions "repugnant racism" when actions are not based on racism will instill a certain mindset in some people so that they will "tolerate" the intolerable for fear of being called a racist.

Desecrating graves of anyone is repugnant, period.

17 posted on 12/08/2008 5:42:08 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (The USofA, Conservative, Traditional, Constitutional , , , now it's up to the SCOTUSofA.)
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To: maggief

Some sort of message written there....

It must be french for Muslims are the New Nazis....


18 posted on 12/08/2008 5:45:36 AM PST by usmcobra (Go ask Obama for your change, and don't bug me!)
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To: GQuagmire

It seems that Zarko the Frog Eater needs to get through his head that ‘Islam’ does not denote race, but religion. Thus ‘racism’ is an invalid claim.


19 posted on 12/08/2008 5:52:00 AM PST by Wyoming Cowboy
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I refuse to condone this action against the Islamothugs.
Be a man and if you want to fight back against the Islamothugs then fight back against them and not a a stone in cemetery.


20 posted on 12/08/2008 5:52:46 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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