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...What's astounding is how long it took for any of France's numerous makers of halal food products to embrace this kind of mass marketing. Studies done by ethnic-marketing consultancy Solis Conseil in Paris estimate that French Muslims currently purchase about $5.7 billion worth of specialized foodstuffs and related products - a market that's been increasing nearly 15% annually for almost a decade. Solis has also found that nearly 94% of all Muslims in France with North African roots - by far the largest group of Muslims in the country - buy exclusively halal food. A recent poll...
...Even though people have to fast during the day, Muslims tend to eat more - and better - when they can eat during Ramadan, which is why it is traditionally a period of peak consumer activity," explains Abbas Bendali, director of Solis Conseil. "Zakia's timing makes good sense because people tend to be short on time during Ramadan and will use prepared dishes along with fresh food for meals. And when you consider the size and value of this demographic, using mass-market methods to promote halal products becomes logical...
...Yesterday's ruling goes further. "While [Chirac's] speech was so important to France and her Jews by finally stating an historic truth, the ruling by the Conseil d'Etat is also crucial, because it now sets that down in stone in legal terms," Klarsfeld explains...
...Ironically, the court decision also delivered a setback to the plaintiff by rejecting over $357,000 in damages she had sought for hardship resulting from her father's deportation. The reason: the Conseil ruled that organizations set up to pay deportees and their survivors damages, or to compensate them for belongings stolen by Nazis or their French collaborators, have proven to be capable of fairly settling damages without court involvement. (See pictures of the Nazis in Paris...
...while $501 million in endowments to the Shoah Memorial Foundation have generated additional funding to those who suffered deportation. "It closes the door to further court cases in such affairs, but that only shows the system put in place to hear them is working," he says. What the Conseil decision doesn't do, Klarsfeld stresses, is force French society into a reckoning with its war-time past that foreigners often think it denies. That has already happened, according to Klarsfeld and others, often in a deeper way than in other countries...