Iains, your Aletho News link. Any article that starts:

Today, May 30, 2015, is the 584th anniversary of the day on which Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by the British forces occupying France.

Completely roasts its own credibility. Do you honestly want me to point out all the mistakes included in that one sentence? If at anytime any writer or in this case "blogger" wishes to draw parallels from history it would be prudent of him/her to actually have some knowledge of said history.