Can the French justice system guarantee the “defense of the dignity of the Muslim religion”? The president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) thinks so. The CFCM president is Dalil Boubakeur, who is also rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris. One illustration, he says, is the court case which begins Wednesday,…
La Justice peut-elle garantir la ” d_fense de la dignit_ du culte musulman ” ? Le pr_sident du Conseil fran_ais du culte musulman (CFCM), _galement recteur de la Grande Mosqu_e de Paris, Dalil Boubakeur en est persuad_. Le proc_s qui s’ouvre, mercredi 7 f_vrier, contre Charlie Hebdo, suite _ la publication par le journal des…
A French satirical weekly published a new cartoon of the prophet Muhammad on its cover, as a French Muslim group condemned the violence that Danish caricatures sparked in Muslim countries. The wave of protests, “orchestrated four months after the facts, aims at caging all freedom of thought by artists and intellectuals,” Tewfik Allal, of the…
