Takimag: The Week That Perished - white cathedral torched, white 5-year-old tossed off balcony, 1940s white school kid mural erased, etc

The Week’s Most Defamatory, Inflammatory, and Confirmatory Headlines

IS FRANCE BURNING?

One needed the sentience of a rock to be able to ignore the deep symbolism behind the specter of the Notre Dame Cathedral burning last Monday in Paris—here was a presumably ineffable symbol of France, of Europe, and of Christendom that was nearly 1,000 years old, and it was immolating before the world’s eyes. Pundits are straining with every last sphincter muscle to throw cold water on any speculation that the blaze was the result of arson, especially at the hands of Islamists. ...

https://www.takimag.com/article/the-week-that-perished-34/