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French Muslims Speak Out - resent scrutiny after terrorist attack(s)
By Patrick J. McDonnell
January 18, 2015 6:00 am
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... I guess a fuller picture of the realities on the ground will come out as time goes on. A couple of million Muslims live in France. What percentage of them condone and advocate terrorism?
Terrorism Pew Research Center - Part 2
By Patrick J. McDonnell
January 18, 2015 6:00 am
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Word that one of its native sons blasted his way into terrorist infamy has brought unwelcome scrutiny to La Grande Borne, a crime-ridden housing project in the gritty southern Paris suburb of Grigny.
"He hasn't lived here for 15 years," said Brahim Agouram, president of the Muslim Union of Grigny. "Why should the entire Muslim community have to answer for one person's crime?"
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"No one here knew him [Coulibaly]," a waiter at a Turkish-style fast-food restaurant in Grigny told a group of visiting reporters. "And no one who knew him will admit to you that they knew him."
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"If these guys really did what they said they did and killed those people, then they aren't true Muslims, and they deserve to rot in hell," said Abdel, 23, son of North African immigrants who was practicing his break-dance moves in the spacious confines of a former public funeral parlor converted into a community center in the edgy 19th arrondissement in northern Paris.
"But I still don't believe in caricaturing the prophet like that, any prophet, be it Muhammad or Jesus Christ," said Abdel, who like many others interviewed declined to give his surname for privacy reasons.
"He hasn't lived here for 15 years," said Brahim Agouram, president of the Muslim Union of Grigny. "Why should the entire Muslim community have to answer for one person's crime?"
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"No one here knew him [Coulibaly]," a waiter at a Turkish-style fast-food restaurant in Grigny told a group of visiting reporters. "And no one who knew him will admit to you that they knew him."
...
"If these guys really did what they said they did and killed those people, then they aren't true Muslims, and they deserve to rot in hell," said Abdel, 23, son of North African immigrants who was practicing his break-dance moves in the spacious confines of a former public funeral parlor converted into a community center in the edgy 19th arrondissement in northern Paris.
"But I still don't believe in caricaturing the prophet like that, any prophet, be it Muhammad or Jesus Christ," said Abdel, who like many others interviewed declined to give his surname for privacy reasons.
... I guess a fuller picture of the realities on the ground will come out as time goes on. A couple of million Muslims live in France. What percentage of them condone and advocate terrorism?
Terrorism Pew Research Center - Part 2
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