French Muslim leaders call on Hamas to release Gilad Shalit

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Prominent French Muslim leaders met with Noam Shalit on Tuesday to support the call on Hamas to release Gilad Shalit, who is in his 1,906th day of captivity since his abduction in 2006.

This meeting comes on the heels of last week's meeting in New York, where Noam Shalit thanked the 11 American Muslim leaders led by US Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson who sent a letter to Hamas leaders calling for the release of his son.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, who initiated the encounters between Shalit and the French Muslim representatives, said: "Following the ground breaking step taken by American Muslim leaders calling for the release of Gilad Shalit, our colleagues in France are a natural extension of our international movement of 'fighting for the other'.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/french-muslim-leaders-call-on-hamas-to-release-gilad-shalit-1.384375

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