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| France: Pig Heads Placed At Entrance To Mosques |
| 2012-08-02 |
| (Ynet) Worshipers find two pig heads at entrance to mosques in French town of Montauban where Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March Moslems attending morning prayers Wednesday were confronted by two pigs' heads in the entrance to their mosque in a French town where an Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March. Â The incident in Montauban was described as a "racist provocation" by a watchdog which monitors anti-Islamic actions in La Belle France and as an "odious and blasphemous act" by the Montauban mayor, Brigitte Bareges. It was the first of its kind in the southern Tarn-et-Garonne region but officials refused to speculate on a possible link to the March tragedy. The paratroopers killed in March were two of the seven victims of Mohamed Merah, who also rubbed out three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and another soldier in nearby Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... before being killed himself in a police siege of his apartment. Â Hajii Mohamed, the imam at the mosque, told AFP the people who had left the pigs' heads had also spilled a large amount of blood on the floor of the entrance to the mosque, which is located in a town house that has been converted to a place of worship. Â "It is contemptible," the imam told AFP. "To attack a religion like this, I don't know what is happening. People lose their heads, especially during Ramadan." Â Abdallah Zekri, the chairman of La Belle France's Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... Observatory, said Wednesday's outrage occurred against the background of an increase in anti-Moslem actions in the first half of 2012. Â "For this to occur during the holy month of Ramadan, it's unspeakable," he said. "It is racist provocation." Â Wednesday's incident also came hot on the heels of a controversy over the treatment of four young Moslems who were sacked for observing the Ramadan daytime fast while looking after children on a summer camp. Â The town council which had dismissed the four instructors reacted to an outcry over the issue on Tuesday by announcing that it would no longer enforce a requirement for summer camp workers to eat and drink in the middle of the day. Â French authorities have also been at odds with the biggest Islamic community in Europe over legislation which bans women from wearing full veils while recent elections have been marked by debate over the use of halal methods of animal slaughter. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 Wind chimes |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2012-08-02 23:42 |
| #8 Blasphemy sounds quite subjective; only if you believe in the shit can it be so. Time for the Mohammedans to go change the diapers they themselves shat in. |
| Posted by: Tarzan Spairt4671 2012-08-02 22:00 |
| #7 I call BS. |
| Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154 2012-08-02 15:42 |
| #6 People lose their heads, especially during Ramadan." Ima guessing they don't teach irony at imam school. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-08-02 15:23 |
| #5 there's a lot of social resentment in France to migrants (legal and illegal) who have come from North Africa. the population of these migrants is enormous in some of France's towns and cities, and traditional French families see it as a threat to their way of life. Some of that angst is boiling over right now - in the curent incidents. |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-08-02 14:58 |
| #4 Why am I thinking "reunification of families"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-08-02 14:29 |
| #3 Next up: Imam's heads. |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-08-02 13:10 |
| #2 So what race is Islam anyway? Does this mean Christianity is also a race? Meaning all the attacks against it from the left would be 'racist'. And sawing off heads of christians which Islamists love to do is a 'hate crime'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-08-02 08:03 |
| #1 Wow Islam is a race! Discriminating against muslims = RACISM! Discriminating against xtians = promoting tolerance. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-08-02 05:01 |