Pave: Plenty Of Hate In France, III

Le jour 328 de Sarko

Ah, France, a nation renowned for her haute couture (and here), cuisine fatiguée (and here), voiture brûlée (and this), and the always surprising génie gauloise (and this and this, explained here).

Oh, yes. And the Sunday citizen bigot.*

MUSLIM GRAVES DESECRATED IN FRANCE

PARIS April 7, 2008 (NYT) - France assigned 100 police officers to investigate the desecration on Sunday of 148 Muslim graves in a war cemetery in northern France.

President Nicolas Sarkozy called the attack “sordid” and expressed “profound outrage” after it was discovered that vandals had hung a pig’s head from one tombstone, desecrated others and wrote slogans insulting Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who was born in France to parents from Northern Africa.

The graves were in the Muslim section of Notre Dame de Lorette, among France’s largest war cemeteries, near the northern town of Arras.

... Ms. Dati issued a statement condemning a “hateful act” with “racist connotations” that “hurts the memory of our dead, of the veterans who gave their lives for France.”

... In April 2007, Nazi slogans and swastikas were painted on about 50 graves in the Muslim section of the same cemetery, and two men found guilty in the case were sentenced to a year in prison.

Desecrating 148 graves is no small job. Yet gumptious bigots managed it all in a night's work. [Pause.] If only the energy of French bigotry could be sanitized and put at the service of le génie gauloise, that would be the end of these boo-hoo headlines.

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* And one more link here. Republican bigots here and here, to link but two. Corporate bigots here, here, and here, to link but three. Government bigots here, here, here, and here, to link but four. Anti-Semites of all sorts here, here, here, here, and here, to link but five.

PFFT (What is this?): No small job 3½ | Rayonnement français 0