Quebec: separatist party courts Muslim vote by enlisting accused terrorist

Posted by Robert on December 12, 2005 10:24 AM

Craven short-sightedness alert. "Separatists in Quebec Seek Immigrant Votes," from the [1] New York Times:

To appeal to the growing Muslim vote, the Bloc has accepted an offer by Adil Charkaoui, a Moroccan-born man suspected of involvement in terrorist activities whom the government is trying to deport, to campaign for a local ethnic Armenian Bloc candidate who was born in Syria.

"It is a crucial vote," the Bloc Québécois leader, Gilles Duceppe, said of immigrants in an interview this week after making a campaign appearance with Gérard Labelle, a Bloc candidate born in Mauritius. "It is important for the country that I want to build that these people consider themselves as full Quebecers."

[2] Here is an article touching on the allegations against Charkaoui.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/12/quebec-separatist-party-courts-muslim-vote-by-enlisting-accused-terrorist.html

URLs in this post:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/international/americas/12quebec.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1134399243-P840pQiaMET7oFVDRdY5eg
[2] http://thelink.concordia.ca/article.pl?sid=05/03/01/054233