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To: Ilaine who wrote (223294)	3/8/2007 10:13:53 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think that religion had nothing to do with it. Tunisia was just one of many European colonies at that time in history. First under Italy, later under France. When Tunisian nationals took back their country in 1956, they also took control of all or most of the European business development that had occurred. No jobs, no income, no reason to stay......so all those French and Italian business people and their families, who just happened to ALSO be Christians.....went home. Converting to Islam would have made no difference....they were still foreigners....and the Tunisians wanted to run the country themselves. Same thing happened in Algeria and Libya. Libya threw out the Italians, hence lots of Catholics, and Algeria threw out the French. All their business interests were nationalized, so most had to return to their home countries. It had nothing to with religious persecution. You should have picked up on this possibility by the fact that five Catholic churches remained open in Tunisia following the revolution. If a country's trying to get rid of people because it doesn't like their religion, it's not going to leave some of that religion's churches in operation.