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To: lqclamar
Show me where I said it did, liar.

Through suggested and/or occlusion in #255, you tried to represent Gabon's tiny Muslim population as the totality of the French Equatorial African Muslim population. If you would like to clarify your comments, I would be eager to see the true meaning of that post.

321 posted on 01/21/2007 11:00:58 PM PST by zimdog
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To: zimdog
Through suggested and/or occlusion in #255, you tried to represent Gabon's tiny Muslim population as the totality of the French Equatorial African Muslim population.

More dishonesty from you.

You suggested, without evidence, that the French concentrated recruitment efforts among muslims. I had previously pointed out that the strongest colonial french support by far came out of the non-Vichy sub-saharan colonies: chad, gabon, cameroon, middle congo, and ubangu-chari. I had also pointed out that only one of those colonies - chad - had a substantial muslim population (50%). Of the others, two were 15% and two were 1%, among them gabon.

Given those statistics, even concentrated intentional muslim recruitment in four out of five of those colonies would still produce a small minority of the troops raised there...which is a far cry from the vague and unspecific numbers originally suggested by you, when you attemtped to claim nearly all French african colonial forces for islam.

350 posted on 01/22/2007 11:26:24 AM PST by lqclamar
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