--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey Unc, what does the average, Jacques in the street > > > > think about America? Any interesting conversations > > > > with your average French dude? > > > > > > > > > > > > > And what about Mohammad on the street? 25% of France is now Muslim. > >
> > That's probably too high: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/dwv9v > > Religion: Roman Catholic 83-88 percent, Protestant 2 percent, Jewish 1 > > percent, Muslim 5-10 percent, unaffiliated 4 percent > > > > > > http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/SpencerMuslimFrance.shtml > > > > http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/france-immigration.html > > > > http://www.mariebrenner.com/articles/daughters/df1.html > > It was from Tom Brokow on an NBC special. it seemed high to me. but I > figured he had his facts triple checked. *********** Possibly Brokaw said something like 25% of the under 25 population is Muslim: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/SpencerMuslimFrance.shtml "What will an Islamic France be like? We may soon find out. Muslims now make up 10 percent of the French population - as well as 20 to 30 percent of those under 25. They'll be a majority there within 25 years if demographic trends continue." but MSNBC is publishing reports that there are 5 million Muslims in France ( out of a total population of 62 million http://www.insee.fr/en/ffc/pop_age2b.htm for about 12% Muslims in France)), and that most are not radical: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8255263/ "The French government launched the council two years ago to create a leadership body for the fractious community and promote moderate belief against what it saw as the growing influence of radical Islam among the country's 5 million Muslims. "The large majority of French Muslims identifies with a middle-of-the- road Islam," the daily Le Monde wrote in an approving editorial. In the election, the National Federation of French Muslims, which supports a pious and apolitical Islam linked with Moroccan immigrants, won 19 of the 43 seats on the council -- a jump of three seats from its score in 2003. The Grand Mosque of Paris network, representing the moderate Islam of its main backer, Algeria, advanced from six to 10 seats despite criticism of its leadership being too linked to conservative President Jacques Chirac. SETBACK FOR ACTIVISTS By contrast, the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF), close to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, saw its strength slip from 13 to 10 seats. Popular among younger Muslims, the group has flirted with Islamist views, for example when it hinted girls should defy a ban on headscarves in state schools. But it has become more moderate over the years. "People have realised that it (the UOIF) does not present an alternative. We have to be serious and go for something much more credible and visible," anthropologist Malek Chebel told Europe 1 radio. One Muslim leader said the result would help reassure the majority French population and establish Islam as a respected religion. Although Islam is now the second religion in France after Roman Catholicism, it is often seen as foreign. Most of France's Muslims are integrated into French society, despite the fact many still encounter racial prejudice. Only about 10 percent regularly pray at mosques, which puts them at the national average for religious practice." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
