Islamophobia Vandalism Hits Southern French City

A policewoman takes pictures of graffiti on the wall of a Muslim prayer room in Toul, eastern France, on 19 August 2009.

Vandals hung a pig's head from the door of a Muslim prayer room in eastern France, daubing the building top to bottom with swastikas and anti-Islamic graffiti, police said today.

A passer-by alerted police Wednesday morning after discovering the pig's head hung from the door and trotters from the shutters of the prayer centre, part of a north African community center on the outskirts of the town of Toul.

The graffiti read : "France to French people, Here is Nazi."

Police and residents stand in front of a Muslim prayer room in Toul, eastern France.

A Muslim resident looks at graffiti on the wall of a Muslim prayer room in Toul, eastern France.

What find’s situations such as this and other forms of intolerance in the last few years one of questions, is due to historically; France did not have such as this within their country, but quite the contrary with such an example of Monarchal alliances made between France and the Middle East. For centuries, there was warm friendliness, between these two parts of the world.

As to the graffiti shown on the building, I can still remember reading of the French underground fighting the Germans during World War 2; to free France from occupation.-HRM Deborah