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Islamic Radicals Recruiting More, Faster In France-Report
Copyright C 2006, Dow Jones Newswires
PARIS (AP)--Islamic extremists in France are speeding up recruitment and
reaching people younger and younger, according to a new intelligence report
cited by a French newspaper Saturday.
The document said women are playing an increasing role in radicalizing
fellow Muslims, but noted that extremists remain a very small minority -
about 5,000 of the nation's 5 million Muslims - Le Figaro newspaper
reported.
Radicalization is happening "faster and faster and younger and younger,"
said the document from the Renseignements Generaux, France's chief
intelligence agency, according to Figaro.
Extremist groups are increasingly targeting educational establishments, the
report said. It cites a document by French doctors adhering to the rigorous
Salafist brand of Islam saying: "It is not permitted to abandon that which
is most dear to teachers who are nonbelievers."
Recruiters often target disadvantaged youths of North African origin in
bleak suburban housing projects, offering "to help overcome difficulties of
daily life" before trying to convert them to radical Islam, the report was
quoted as saying. Such neighborhoods were hit by a wave of riots last year,
though police said Islamic extremists played no role in that unrest.
Figaro said the intelligence agency expressed concern about the growing
proportion of converts to radical Islam, reporting that about a quarter of
the 1,600 people who officially converted to Islam last year adhere to the
Salafist faith, which produces many of today's radicals.
The document said terrorist recruitment in prisons continues to rise, Le
Figaro reported, citing the example of an alleged terror cell built by
radical Islamist Safe Bourada while he was in prison for his role in 1995
terror attacks in Paris. Bourada was arrested again in September.
It was not immediately possible to confirm the contents of the report
independently.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 03, 2006 13:51 ET (17:51 GMT)
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