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Mosque desecrated in southern France
2009-12-14
Police say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has denounced the "vile and racist desecration" of the mosque in the town of Castres.

Police say the swastika in black paint and slogans including Hitler salute "Sieg Heil" in German, "France to the French" in French, and "White Power" in English were scrawled on the mosque. Hortefeux said Sunday any person found responsible for the overnight desecration should be "severely punished."
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Posted by:ryuge

#4  How can they tell it was desecrated?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2009-12-14 15:06  

#3  Mosque desecrated in southern France

Colonization-era Christian cemetaries desacrated in algeria (more, text in french)
note that of course, the independence treaty expressely stipulated for the cemetaries to be kept, but, then again, european algerians were supposed to be able to stay, and muslims who fought against the FLN were to be left in peace...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-12-14 14:56  

#2  Christian churches are desacrated every week, if not every day, if you throw in the various onuments, graveyards,... one Catholic french blog even had an open tally a while back, taken from the online local news dailies; perps are most often anarchokiddies or wannabe "satanists", tags on cathedrals even are pretty common.
Not to mention some rather disturbing ongoing vandalizing of chruches in "occupied territories", incluidng desacrations and harassements that are clearly done by the Youths, up to jihad blag flags covering the desacrated altar.

Those never make nation al news, much less international news like here.

Btw, one cannot exclude a racist hoax or a provocation, no proof or even gutfeeling to back this, just keep in mind that AFAIK, a couple musmim graveyards desacrations perps over the last years have been ID-ed, and turned out to be Mentally Disturbed™ muslims (on a similar level, a couple notorious antisemite acts were found to be hoaxes, including one that really was big at the time - a girl who was assaulted in a train, and turned out to be a non-jewish mythomaniac); also, in the early hours of the 2005 Ramadan Riots, a CS gas cannister was shot into a mosque by the police, dispersing the faithful who were mourning the loss of two Youths™ who got a Darwin Award while fleeing police; the whole thing was filmed through cellphones, and put some more tension, turned out this was a pure staged event, police internal inquiry found out that no CS cannisters were fired toward the building, and that the one threwn in was an used cannister collected much earlier, and this was pallywood at its best.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-12-14 14:48  

#1  I don't believe the 'spray can artists' understood what they were signifying. Haj Amin el-Husseini ( the still-dead Grand Mufti of Jerusalem)would be thrilled by this display of solidarity with the Nazis.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2009-12-14 12:33  

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