By Azzedine Gaci, {Head of the Conseil R_gional du Culte Musulman (CRCM), R_gion Rh_ne Alpes and teacher/researcher at the _cole sup_rieure de chimie physique _lectronique of Lyon (CPE Lyon)} At the very most, France has no more than 2,000 mosques and places of Islamic worship. Daily prayers and Friday services are led by approximately 1,500…
President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday sent a strong signal to France’s disaffected minorities by appointing an outspoken advocate of Muslim women and a woman of Senegalese origin Tuesday to his government – among France’s most diverse ever. As junior minister for city policy, feminist activist Fadela Amara will oversee the renovation of dilapidated housing estates…
The historian Patrick Weil and 7 other scholars announced that they will resigned from the Cit_ Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration’s board (CNHI – French National Museum of the History of Immigration) as a way to protest against the creation of a ministry of immigration and national identity, recently instaured by France’s new president Nicolas…
The moderate Organization of French Muslims (RMF), presented “the warmest congratulation to Nicolas Sarkozy, inviting a new era of civil peace and of mutual respect between the different groups composing the French nation.
Dalil Boubakeur, leader of the Paris Mosque, expressed his pleasure at the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in a press release. “French Muslims, he said, appreciate the work [of Sarkozy] as Minister of the Interior and respect his efforts to represent Muslims within the Republic alongside other faiths.
