Except that:
1. The muslim northern French Equatorial colonies were Vichy controlled for the first half of the war and contributed far less to the allied side than non-Vichy colonies.
2. The bulk of the FFL came from the De Gaulle controlled colonies of Cameroon, Gabon, Chad, Middle Congo, and Ubangu-Chari. Of these five colonies, ONLY Chad had a muslim population of any sizable percentage. The other four ranged from 85% to 99% non-muslim.
Echenberg's sources for the numbers are the annual recruitment reports of the 2G, 4D, and 5D series in the Senegalese National Archives, Fondes Modernes.
That's nice and all, yet you've still failed to give country by country numbers. Surely if you know the source, you also know the numbers they are referring to. Do you not?
This issue was addressed in #274, which you clearly did not read.
Not so much. Your post 274 contains this vague, unsourced statement: "average breakdown out of a recruiting quota of 10,000/yr. Actually enlistment numbers jumped to 70,000 at the start of the war." It says little about actual numbers and NOTHING about muslim numbers.
From the numbers published in Echenberg's book, recruits from the French Sudan (approx 22% of West African military recruits, as demonstrated above) numbered 3163, 6950, 7558, 8550, 11000, 6429, and 5109 for the respective years in question.
So finally we're starting to get somewhere! First tell me - was that so hard? Second, please describe what these units did, what their jobs were (were they a legion of soldiers of a legion of cooks?), where they were assigned, and what battles they fought in. Seeing as I have described the numbers, locations, battles, and dates for Hitler's mahometan nazi SS troops in detail already, your doing so for the Sudanese side of things is but customary.
False. Chad, which had that largest proportion of Muslims, was the very first colony to support de Gaulle. Also, Chad and Cameroon were the most populous colonies and also had the highest concentration of Muslims in French Equatorial Africa.
2. The bulk of the FFL came from the De Gaulle controlled colonies of Cameroon, Gabon, Chad, Middle Congo, and Ubangu-Chari.
You would have to prove that. If you can make this claim, you must know the number of troops from Equatorial Africa and West Africa.
That's nice and all, yet you've still failed to give country by country numbers. Surely if you know the source, you also know the numbers they are referring to. Do you not?
Echenberg does not give numbers for each colony but did give the colony-by-colony breakdown of West Africa's contributions to the French army, which he claims are representative. He is a respected historian and I trust his judgement. If you don't, you know what files to consult in the Senegalese archives.
It says little about actual numbers and NOTHING about muslim numbers.
It gives the breakdown of troops recruited by colony. Using the CIA Factbook's religious demography that you accept, we can calculate the percentage of Muslims:
Upper Volta 22.01% of recruits x 50% Muslim == 11.005% Muslim recruits
French Sudan 20.49% x 90% == 18.441%
Senegal 16.52% x 94% == 15.5288%
Guinea 15.77% x 80% == 12.616
Côte d'Ivoire 14.30% x 35% == 5.005
Dahomey 8.4% x 20% == 1.68%
Niger 1.84% x 80% == 1.472%
Mauritania 0.67% x 100% == 0.67%
Giving a figure of 66.4178% Muslim recruits.
Second, please describe what these units did, what their jobs were (were they a legion of soldiers of a legion of cooks?), where they were assigned, and what battles they fought in.
Approx. 65,000 West African troops defended France against the German invasion. West African troops also fought Nazis in North Africa during Germany's 1939-1940 offensive. They served in the FFL contingent in the Italian campaign of 1944 and were gradually replaced with European troops (de Gaulle's choice to prevent the capital from being liberated by soldiers from the African colonies, thus protecting France's "national prestige") as the FFL moved towards Paris and absorbed Resistance fighters.