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French Muslims Get Call to Vote for President
AP ^ | Apr 30, 2012 | ELAINE GANLEY

Posted on 05/07/2012 4:47:34 PM PDT by george76

a special new effort to mobilize French Muslims to speak up at the ballot box in Sunday's presidential race — amid a surge of Islam-bashing among the French right. Imams and Islamic associations are calling on Muslims

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French Muslims have been pounded with blame throughout the campaign for what they eat (halal meat), how they pray (in the street), and for allegedly using their growing numbers to supplant France's civilization with their own. The massacre of Jewish schoolchildren and French paratroopers in March by an alleged Islamic extremist put Muslims in the spotlight anew and fed far-right fear mongering.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: french; frenchmuslims; muslims

1 posted on 05/07/2012 4:47:45 PM PDT by george76
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Apparently massacres by Muslims is a sign that Muslims are oppressed or something


2 posted on 05/07/2012 4:51:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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This message brought to you by the Arab-owned AP newsservice.

Someone, clone Charles Martel, fast!

3 posted on 05/07/2012 5:02:34 PM PDT by jonatron (This is the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.)
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I thought the MSM had the monopoloy on the whole “Call to Vote” with their 24/7 bashing of conservatives.....


4 posted on 05/07/2012 5:04:12 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: george76
far-right fear mongering

Formerly known as Telling The Truth.

5 posted on 05/07/2012 5:33:24 PM PDT by Argus
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