Word: boubakeur
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...oppose the secularity law but viewed the Iraqi blackmail attempt as worse. Though perhaps nearly a million Muslim students showed up for class last week, just 240 wore head scarves; 170 agreed to remove them on campus. "The kidnappers ignored the reality of the Muslim community," says Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Mosque of Paris and president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion. "They ignored our strong sense of patriotism toward France." Muslim leaders demonstrated that patriotism by taking a leading role in the effort to free the hostages. After months of battling the French government over...