Re: After a bomb planted by Islamic fundamentalists killed seven people in a Paris subway station on July 25, 1995, French authorities conducted mass sweeps of Algerian neighborhoods in and around Paris, stopping 25,000 people for identity checks.
LOL... The 1995 terrorist wave in Paris was sort of a cointelpro operation orchestrated by the Algerian secret services --the Algerian junta blackmailed France and somehow warned the French government that, should it stop its diplomatic/financial support to Algeria, the civil war might be "exported" right into France itself.... I guess the message got through. You can make up your mind with this:
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Keep in mind that there're already 5+ million Muslims in France... From a marketing perspective, I'd say that Arabs/Muslims don't need to hard-sell Islam to native Europeans --the growth of the Islamic faith in Europe is a "natural" process feeding on demographics, North African immigration, and the tarnished image of Europe's staple brand, Catholicism.... I guess the Vatican is to the religion market what K-mart was to the US retail business.
So, tell me, why on earth would Muslim zealots use terrorism as a way to spread Islam across Europe? They've got a much better, much more appealing tool at hand: their beautiful children... If anything, far-right extremists and anti-Muslim organizations are the ones who're keen to cast Europe's Muslims as a dangerous fifth column, an evasive network of terrorist sleepers and whatnot... Hey, maybe that's what K-mart ought to have done --smearing its main competitor Wal-mart.
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