Vandals desecrate 500 French Muslim war graves with swastikas and anti-Islamic slogans

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Vandals desecrate 500 French Muslim war graves

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3684187/Vandals-desecrate-500-French-Muslim-war-graves.html

The graves of 500 Muslim soldiers who died fighting for France have been desecrated with swastikas and anti-Islamic slogans in their country's largest military cemetery.

President Nicolas Sarkozy described the vandalism - the third incident directed at the tombstones in Notre Dame de Lorette in two years - as "abject and revolting".

Most of the headstones were daubed with a single letter each, which when read together spelled out anti-Muslim slurs.

The graffiti was described by Mr Sarkozy as "the expression of a repugnant racism directed against the Muslim community of France".



The military cemetery in Notre Dame de Lorette includes 576 Muslim graves, grouped together and pointing towards Mecca Photo: AP

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A military cemetery....these people died defending France..

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. There really are no words to express the outrage here...

...life has an unlimited capacity for good and evil, it seems.

[robinlynne]

2. oh my, that gives Jews and Muslims some common ground.....