France: Muslim graves descerated

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Monday April 07, 2008 12:11 by tomeile

Racists desecrated 148 graves in the Muslim section of a military cemetery in Lille France, last Sunday daubing anti-Islamic graffiti and swastikas on graves , and hanging a pig's head on one of the headstones. The widely condemned hate crime comes at a time of tension for Muslim communities throughout Europe , occurring in the same week that Deniz Ozgur Uzun ,a 17-year-old Muslim high school student , was beaten to death by Islamophobes in Copenhagen .

Commentators have linked the attacks to a recent series of extreme right-wing engineered Islamophobic provocations on the Continent which has included the reprinting of the notorious Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons in Denmark and the release on the internet of an Islamophobic film by Geers Wilder, the Dutch anti-immigrant campaigner and M.P .

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL06327609200...80406