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Tatars Call On Romanian Muslims To Back Leftist Candidate, Criticize President’s Statement

Romanian Muslims should vote for social democrat Mircea Geoana in the presidential election runoff, recommended the Democratic Union of Tatars in Romania (UDT), offended by rival candidate Traian Basescu’s statement that his best deed was christening a Muslim.
Tatars Call On Romanian Muslims To Back Leftist Candidate, Criticize President’s Statement
25 nov. 2009, 15:04, English

According to a press release issued Wednesday to MEDIAFAX, the Democratic Union of Tatars voted to support Geoana in the presidential election runoff and expressed a recommendation that Muslims should vote for the social democrat leader.

In the press release, UDT commented that christening a child who is unable to make a choice is not a laudable act, and condemned the implication that the child was ‘rescued’ from life as a Muslim.

Incumbent President Basescu said last week, in an election debate, that the greatest deed he had ever done was christening a Muslim child and converting her to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.