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Dirty Little Secrets
French Question Loyalty of Moslem Troops
by James Dunnigan
November 5, 2005
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
France has been detecting, or at least fearing,
loyalty problems among the fifteen percent of its soldiers who are Moslem. The
military insists that these second and third generation soldiers of, for the
most part, Arab descent, are loyal. But many Christian soldiers, NCOs and
officers are not so sure. Harassment of Moslem troops by Christian soldiers is
common. There have been no major incidents of soldiers turned terrorists, but
the abuse from paranoid soldiers, NCOs and officers might push Moslem soldiers
to go bad. This is believed more likely because there are no Moslem chaplains.
Thus Moslem soldiers seek spiritual advice from clerics with no military
experience, and possible a radical agenda. More worrisome is that radicalized
soldiers will leave the army equipped with skills they can use for terrorist
attacks.
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