Posted on 12/03/2010 7:11:44 AM PST by RobinMasters
JERUSALEM – The U.S. State Department directed its staff to "engage" and help to "empower" France's Muslim minorities, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks and reviewed by WND.
The cables reveal U.S. government staff were instructed to use the French media to educate that country's public on minority issues and to improve the lot of French Arabs and Muslims. The process called for "considerable discretion, sensitivity and tact."
A cable dated January 2007 and directed to various U.S. missions in France outlined that the U.S. government must show it "takes seriously the threat of disenfranchised and disadvantaged minorities around the world, including in France, and we are committed to empowering minorities as part of our fundamental belief in participatory democracy."
The directive accused the French news media of "falling short both in its coverage of discrimination towards them (French Arab and Muslims) and of juvenile delinquency among them."
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If the experience with Israel is anything to go by, just lean on the host nation making pressure noises about restraint. Don't throw the poor arab slobs back to their he*llholes. Don't treat them badly. You know, CAIR.gov.
I beg to differ. This has nothing to do with political correctness. The U.S. has been “empowering” Muslims in Europe for years. See the disgraceful U.S. role in the whole Kosovo/Serbia conflict back in the late 1990s.
You’re right! That makes more sense. Thanks.
We apparently have a whole nest of them.
LMAO, who would have thought that the U. S. would use the same policy in France that it uses in the U. S.?
Some scandal. /s
The scandal is that it does it anywhere, not that it does it in France.
Secretly?
Hell, Hussein II directed NASA to do it directly.
What's so "secret" about that?
It’s an amnesty push in France.
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