Toulouse: The Writing On The Wall

To those Western apologists who have tried to make out that there was no link between Mohamed Merah's murderous actions and his Islam since some of his victims, the soldiers of North African extraction, were Muslims themselves, there is, of course, the very pertinent response that those fellow-Muslims, wearing the uniform of France, were fighting for the infidel.  Not only that: Merah's own blog shows that he was as an antisemtic jihadist.  Here is a thoughtful take on the situation.

Now, despite the misgivings of municipal officials, the mass murderer's body lies in the soil of the city in which he committed his slaughter of Jews, rather than in Algeria as initially intended (see, for instance, this report).

In Toulouse, the following graffiti, daubed on a wall (see photograph and further commentary here), eloquently testifies to Merah's stature among certain sections of the population:

Tu as été un preux Chevalier de l’islam,
 tu as combattu la merde sioniste et les faux musulmans
 tu es mort les armes à la main…
 je te salue Mohamed mon frère, mon ami…
 Repose en paix !

 Here's a rough translation:

 You have been a valiant knight of Islam
 You have fought the Zionist shit and the fake Muslim
 you have died weapons in hand
 I salute you Mohamed, my brother, my friend,
 rest in peace.

(Hat tip: reader Rita)