CFCM slips into new crisis

23.06.2013 The Algerian dominated Great Mosque of Paris (GMP) quit a meeting of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) which was about to endorse the appointment of its director, Dalil Boubaker, as President of the Council. The spokesperson of the GMP explained that “we left the meeting of the Board because we realized…

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The quest for French educated imams

Liberation 07.05.2013 As so often declared by the French Government, the recent Secretary of State, Maneul Valls, wants to see more imams educated in France in mosques all over the country. He has made it one of his priority tasks to forward the cause and instructed a study conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education…

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Local chapters of the French Council for the Muslim Cult refuse reforms.

Vitre Ma Ville 16.04.2013 In an interview with the President of the Regional Council of the Muslim Cult in Bretagne (CRCM), Mustafa Aslan, he expresses  how the recent reforms made by the national chapter of the French Council for the Muslim Cult (CFCM) are rejected by a number of local chapters. The reforms do, according…

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Feminist activists burn Salafi flag

Le Figaro 03.04.2013 Three feminists of the Ukrain-based Femen movement have burnt the Salafi flag in front of the Great Mosque of Paris. The women, of whom two were white and one of Tunisian origin, burnt the flag as an expression of solidarity with a Tunisian feminist who had previously decried human rights abuses against…

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The UOIF and the Mosque of Paris meet to discuss representation of Islam in France

News Agencies – May 31, 2012   While formally estranged, on May 29, 2012, representatives from the l’Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (UOIF) and the Grande Mosquée de Paris met over a friendly lunch to discuss the situation of Islam in France, particularly focused on the representation of the tradition through the French Council…

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