Willow Tree

I can't help but wonder...were these Frenchmen also Arab and/or Muslim? France has a disproportionately large Arab Muslim population. Not saying what the ruffians were almost seems to yell out that they were Muslims.

I read about this before. Shaken? No, not anymore. And I think that is a lot more scary that incidents like this have lost the capacity to shock.

It just reminds me of my visit to the Holocaust museum in Israel many years ago with the volunteers from our kibbutz. It was filled with pictures of Jews being killed and in various stages of dying at the Nazi's hands. The pictures were taken because the Nazis were so damn proud of what they did to the Jews. What they did and what they COULD do because who would stop them? It was sickening. We all cried through the whole thing. I made myself read every caption under the pictures to remind myself that people hate us and maybe that will never change. Maybe the degree of hatred will be less,maybe we won't be killed in death camps but it's still out there...waiting....waiting to attack when we least expect it.

This doesn't shock me as much as it angers me. I can understand how this may have heated up and if not broken up would have resulted in some violence. I would have easily stepped forward to defend myself. They can't possibly think that they would not defend themselves or their position in this world, and particularly at that place. The French men's behavior was so horrifyingly disrespectful, it's unbelievable. But, by looking at the grave sites in France, it's no better.