French Ex-Muslim Council founded

Le Figaro

6.7.2013

A group of former Muslims who have rejected Islam have come together in Paris to found the Council of French Ex-Muslims. The group aims to claim the right to publicly announce their disbelief and atheism as well as the right to critique their religion of origin freely. The group has currently members from over 32 nationalities, including 28-year-old Palestinian blogger Waleed Al-Husseini who was jailed in the Westbank in 2010 for  blasphemy and later fled to France.

The group state on their Facebook page that ‘they are a group of atheists and unbelievers who have due to their conviction faced threats and restrictions in their personal lives while many of us have also been arrested for blasphemy’.  They say  to ‘want to represent the voices of ex-Muslims in France who denounce the lies that every Muslim is confronted with’.

Similar groups have been founded in Britain and Germany.

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