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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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To: lqclamar
You suggested, without evidence, that the French concentrated recruitment efforts among muslims.

I raised the possibility that the French concentrated their recruitment efforts in Muslims communities.

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.

You suggested that, but without evidence.

Furthermore, all colonies were "non-Vichy" after 1942.

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...

That makes no sense. If the French recruited mostly Muslims, then the majority of the troops would be Muslim.

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.

I said that Muslims constituted a plurality among religious groups in the FFL's African army.

365 posted on 01/25/2007 4:19:40 AM PST by zimdog
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