Ahh, zose wacky Frrrench!Follow

French Muslim war graves defaced

Vandals have desecrated 148 Muslim graves in France's biggest WWI cemetery, officials have said.

A pig's head was hung from one headstone and slogans insulting Islam and France's Muslim justice minister were daubed on other graves.

President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the attack as a "hateful act" and the "most inadmissible kind of racism".

About 78,000 colonial subjects of France, including many Muslims from North Africa, died in the war.

Nothing says "i'm a tough thug" like beating up a dead person. It's good to see our fascists are still brave and honourable...

If I saw anyone descrating their graves, let alone graves of my compatriots, I suspect I would physicalise my disgust.

The Germans invaded England in ww1? Or is that a mistake?

The cemetery contains the graves of 2143 servicemen of the First World War.

To one side of the entrance vestibule are four large slabs, laid flat on the ground, surrounded by a low wall. These are the graves of the crews of the four airships shot down over the UK in 1916 and 1917. Each crew-member is commemorated by name and rank. Here lies the crew of SL 11, an army airship shot down over Hertfordshire by Lieut. William Leefe-Robinson, on 3rd September, 1916. Beside them lies the crew of L32, the first of the three naval airships, shot down over Billericay three weeks later. Then comes Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Mathy, the most audacious of all the raiders, buried with the crew of his ship, L31, brought down on 2nd October, 1916 at Potters Bar. Finally, here is the grave of the crew of L48, shot down over Theberton on 17th June, 1917

I was hoping this would be about the Olympic torch and my favorite part of French culture, roller blading gendarmes.

Wow, I just had a flashback to the last John Irving novel I read.

When did Muslim become a race?