Vandals hit French Muslim graves

Amal —

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Vandals hit French Muslim graves

The graves of as many as 500 Muslim war veterans have been vandalised in northern France, in an attack President Nicolas Sarkozy said was "repugnant". [/b]

Gravestones were daubed with swastikas and letters spelling out anti-Islamic slogans at France's biggest military graveyard near Arras in the north-east.

The attack took place on the eve of Islam's Eid al-Adha festival, when Muslims visit the graves of loved ones.

Dozens of police searched the graveyard on Monday as an investigation began.

It is the third time the Muslim sector of the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery has been attacked.

President Sarkozy called the latest incident "abject and revolting" and said it was "the expression of a repugnant racism directed against the Muslim community of France".

The cemetery holds the graves of tens of thousands of soldiers killed in World War I, including those of 576 Muslims.

The authorities estimated that about 500 graves were damaged. Vandals had sprayed letters on the tombstones which, when linked together, formed anti-Islamic insults, the French news agency AFP said.

The local prosecutor says the damage resembles another act of vandalism in April, for which two young men with neo-Nazi sympathies were later jailed.

One of them had already been jailed for a previous attack on Muslim graves at the cemetery.

Police say security has been reinforced but the site remains difficult to guard.
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BBC News

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Omrow — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 - 12:20

Salam

Racists dont hate muslims. They fear them.

They are so scared of muslims, whether muslims are living or dead.

Muslims frighten them even from beyong the grave.

They think that a muslim remains a threat - absolutely anywhere!

Terrorists in the cemetary!!

Dead or alive, Islam gives them the jitters.

You should ask these racists:

So, its no use killing muslims then?

Omrow

RI_RS — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 - 12:21

That's atrocious.

And it doesn't even matter that it was "Muslim graves"
Vandalising ANYONE'S grave is blatantly disrespectful

But something i don't understand :

"The local prosecutor says the damage resembles another act of vandalism in April, for which two young men with neo-Nazi sympathies were later jailed.

One of them had already been jailed for a previous attack on Muslim graves at the cemetery."

So it happened once, and he was jailed
but that didn't work and he did it again...
and then they put him in jail again?
What's the point, it doesn't look like jail's affecting him (for the better)...

is there nothing else that could be done?

Seraphim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 - 12:23

[quote=MakeMeRawr_6TeenF]
So it happened once, and he was jailed
but that didn't work and he did it again...
and then they put him in jail again?
What's the point, it doesn't look like jail's affecting him (for the better)...

is there nothing else that could be done?[/quote]

He's most likely been put away for a much longer period than he was the first time.

RI_RS — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 - 12:27

[quote=Seraphim][quote=MakeMeRawr_6TeenF]
So it happened once, and he was jailed
but that didn't work and he did it again...
and then they put him in jail again?
What's the point, it doesn't look like jail's affecting him (for the better)...

is there nothing else that could be done?[/quote]

He's most likely been put away for a much longer period than he was the first time.[/quote]

And if they catch him again they'll put him in for even longer?
Isn't it blatantly obvious the jail thing isn't working?

Is the only other option electrocution? (which i'm pretty sure is illegal in this country- thank goodness...)

Joie de Vivre — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 - 19:15

These guys are awful. Imagine one of your own relatives or loved ones lay beneath those gravestones - not to mention the sort of likely upsetting behaviour at the site that might not be documented, and then there's the rude reminder to everyone of the underlying hatred. All in all horrible stuff.

s.b.f — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 - 19:36

[quote=Joie de Vivre]These guys are awful. Imagine one of your own relatives or loved ones lay beneath those gravestones - not to mention the sort of likely upsetting behaviour at the site that might not be documented, and then there's the rude reminder to everyone of the underlying hatred. All in all horrible stuff.[/quote]

agreed