Sunday - June 25, 2006

Monumental Suck-Up

Memorials should be built for wars, not for religious groups who participated. There are probably an equal number of Muslims who fought and died in WWI from the other side, the Ottoman Empire, which sided with Germany. Chirac is simply sucking up to the Muslims in France who are gradually taking over the country. Meanwhile, at other cemeteries in France, Jewish graves in France are being vandalized by “parties unknown”. Yeah, it must have been Norwegians who did it, right?

What someone in Europe needs to do is build a huge 1,000,000 ton marble monument to the utter supidity, the rank indifference to potential deaths and the slimey political backroom games that were being played by Europe’s Kings and Emperors and Czars and Kaisers in the late 19th century that caused hundreds of millions of deaths, solved nothing and merely provided a breeding ground for an even worse conflict thirty years later. That’s the monument I’d like to see ... and after it’s built - drop it on Chirac’s head. Merde!

France Marks Muslim Dead Of WWI
_{Sunday, 25 June 2006, 14:26 GMT}

French President Jacques Chirac has marked 90 years since the Battle of Verdun by unveiling a monument to Muslims who fell in the key WWI battle.

The memorial is the first to Muslims who died in 300 days of clashes over the strategically located French town and in other World War I battles.

Mr Chirac hailed the French army in Verdun as “France in its diversity”. He also spoke of friendship with Germany at the ceremony, which was attended by the German ambassador.

France erected monuments in the 1930s to Jewish and Christian soldiers among the 300,000 who died at Verdun in 1916.

But until now Muslim soldiers have been honoured only by a small pillar dedicated to Africans who fought in the French army, and 592 graves in the Muslim section of a war cemetery in the town of Douaumont near the battlefields.

At the inauguration of the new white-walled, Moorish style memorial, Mr Chirac remembered Verdun as a moment when “the French nation came together and went forth to the end”.

“People of all walks of life, of all beliefs, of all religions, are at Verdun,” he said. Some 72,000 soldiers from France’s colonies - including Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia and Madagascar - died fighting under the French flag during World War I, he said.

- More Fwench Folly from the BBC...

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/25/2006 at 11:05 AM   
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