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WikiLeaks : U.S. secretly sought to 'empower' France's Muslims
WND ^ | DECEMBER 3, 2010 | Aaron Klein

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; frenchmuslims; soshillary; wikileaksdocdump
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To: La Lydia
What did we do? Provide them with better ways to burn cars and attack the French gendarmerie?

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.

41 posted on 12/03/2010 8:11:15 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Look at the date, PM. This goes back to the Bush administration.
42 posted on 12/03/2010 8:16:43 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Sudetenland

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.


43 posted on 12/03/2010 8:18:10 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: tanknetter

You’re right! That makes more sense. Thanks.


44 posted on 12/03/2010 8:19:47 AM PST by ryderann
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To: GingisK

We apparently have a whole nest of them.


45 posted on 12/03/2010 8:27:33 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: RobinMasters

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.


46 posted on 12/03/2010 10:43:08 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Is the U. S. on life support. Looks for all the world like a team has decided to pull the plug.)
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To: RobinMasters
WikiLeaks : U.S. secretly sought to 'empower' France's Muslims

Secretly?

Hell, Hussein II directed NASA to do it directly.

What's so "secret" about that?

47 posted on 12/03/2010 12:58:54 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: KarlInOhio

It’s an amnesty push in France.


48 posted on 12/05/2010 3:47:19 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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