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Submitted by travis (United States), Mar 25, 2007 at 14:54

April 19, 2005 update: Paris buys into the same theory, namely, that to know France is love France. It has therefore set up language and cultural classes for imams in Auvergne, a region of central France. United Press International explains that "broken French no longer cuts it when it comes to preaching to the country's estimated 5 million Muslims." Dominique de Villepin, minister of the interior, has set up a French civilization program, starting with language courses and to be followed, in later 2005, by courses for imams on French history, civics, and culture. These programs in turn, represent just the beginning of a more ambitious plan to create a "French Islam" by creating university training programs for French-born imams.

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