France: The Muslim community in France is mobilizing voters against President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday’s presidential election, The Washington Times reports.
The US newspaper said in a report that French Muslims, estimated at more than six million, are fed up with Sarkozy’s anti-immigrant and anti-Islam policies.
A sociologist with the Institute of Studies on the Arab and Muslim World has told the US daily that French Muslims are tired of debates about national identity, the Islamic veil or fundamentalism.
“[French] Muslims can’t stand it anymore. They are fed up with these debates about national identity, halal meat, the veil or fundamentalism all over the place,” said Francoise Lorcerie.
“The terms [Islam, immigration and fundamentalism] are being used interchangeably, without care, with people being targeted, denigrated and used for [votes],” Lorcerie added.
According to polls, front runner Socialist and Left Radical Party candidate Francois Hollande is ahead of the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy — whose approval rating has diminished remarkably in the past months– and is likely to win the run-off vote.
If Sarkozy is defeated in the election he will be the first one-term French president since 1981.
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