13.09.2011 According to preliminary results of a study currently conducted at the University of Münster, young Muslims in Germany increasingly use online forums to discuss issues related to religion, with questions of how to be an obedient Muslim in Western society taking centre-stage. The study relies on material gathered in more than 1,000 online debates…
Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), has critiqued the recent French national identity debate and its “political instrumentalization of the Muslim faith”. Moussaoui suggests that greater investigation into the “social and political roots” of assimilation in France would be more appropriate.
By Jennifer Selby Earlier this week, a 32-member French parliamentary panel recommended that several limitations be placed on niqab and burqa-wearing Muslim women. Led by André Gerin, former mayor of the city of Venissieux, the 130-page report suggests barring fully-covered Muslim women from citizenship, social benefits and from access to the country’s public sphere. The…
The Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (Mrap or Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples) has launched a complaint of racism against French Secretary of State for the Family, Nadine Morano, for comments she made about Muslim youth. During a debate on national identity on 14 December 2009 at…
The debate on national identity in France became more focused on young French Muslims following the comments of Nadine Morano at Charmes. The president of the CFCM (the French Council of the Muslim Faith), Mohamed Moussaoui, critiqued the stereotypical image promoted by Morano. A spokesperson for the Union of French Jewish Students called the debate…
