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News from Europistan! The Tocqueville Connection doesn't even try to make an effort to be shy about the motivation of France's recent investment:

CHIRAC UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO FRANCE'S MUSLIM SOLDIERS IN WWI
Received Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:12:00 GMT

DOUAUMONT, France, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - President Jacques Chirac paid homage Sunday to the 600,000 Muslim soldiers from former colonies who fought for France in World War I, unveiling a memorial on the site of the bloody Verdun battlefield.

"The Verdun army was the army of the people, and all the people took part. It was France in all its diversity," he said, inaugurating a white-walled Moorish-style monument in their memory.

More about this sickening "diversity" drivel HERE.