French police raided a mosque last night in connection with the recent events in Paris, damaging some precious religious books in their search for evidence. What absolute bastards! One poor worshipper was almost in tears as he moaned "these books cannot be replaced."
Well done BBC Newsnight for bringing this shameful behaviour to the nation's attention.
Of course it is a sad and disappointing thing to happen. I can only hope that it wasn't done intentionally. We like to take the moral high-ground when we read of damage done to irreplaceable artefacts by the likes of IS or The Taliban. We need to make sure that we don't react in the same manner that we condemn in others, otherwise we are no better. Destruction of history is not something to celebrate.
Of course it is a sad and disappointing thing to happen. I can only hope that it wasn't done intentionally. We like to take the moral high-ground when we read of damage done to irreplaceable artefacts by the likes of IS or The Taliban.We need to make