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To: lqclamar

Furthemore, I gave you the Sheck article, which states that there were 275,000 West African troops in World War 2. In a region that is 2/3rd Muslim that gives approx. 180,000 Muslim soldiers from west Africa alone.


219 posted on 02/20/2007 11:49:24 AM PST by zimdog
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To: tgambill

FYI - the Scheck article was discussed extensively on another thread last week. It does NOT show 275,000 west african troops. It states there were 275K troops in the Tirailleurs Senegalais - a French colonial unit that actually included members from all parts of Africa. 10% of them were French European officers. Sheck stated that 122,000 of them were conscripted in the French West African colonies prior to the 1940 surrender, but only half of those actually made it to France before it fell. Nowhere in the article does Sheck give a muslim percentage of those troops. It may also be safely assumed that the non-mobilized conscripts who were still in West Africa fell under control of the Vichy regime, which was able to hold onto the West African colonies (though not the non-muslim colonies to its south). Some of them even ended up fighting for the Nazis in the aforementioned Vichy colonial units.


220 posted on 02/20/2007 12:04:43 PM PST by lqclamar ("That's it, Seth, you can't blame them. It's want of education. That's all it is.")
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