[zimdog]

I don't recall assuming that or even commenting on it either way. But since some of the places in question were less than 1% muslim, their enlistment rates could be twice that of everybody else and they'd still be a tiny minority in the FFL. Or in other words, inconsequential and peripheral.

Of course, the French could have focused their recruitment efforts in Muslim areas, right?

[lqclamar]

Of course, the French could have focused their recruitment efforts in Muslim areas, right?

Less than 1% of the entire population of Gabon is an awfully small pool to draw from. It would be comparable to the US today focusing its recruitment efforts only on Indian reservations. I doubt that even the French are that stupid.