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,…
Xavier Ternisien explores the reasons for the crises at the Muslim Council of France. He claims that it has made no progress on any of the important issues facing Muslims in France (chaplaincies, construction of mosques, halal meat, foundation for Islam works, organizing the annual pilgrimage) and had no effect on the major issues such…
PARIS – One of France’s largest Muslim organizations yesterday rejected charges of anti-Semitism brought by a U.S.-based Jewish group seeking legal action to replace its leadership with more moderate Muslims. Fouad Alaoui, secretary general of the powerful Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF), denied his group was anti-Jewish and accused the Simon Wiesenthal Center of…
To prevent the destruction of the French Council of Islam, the Minister of the Interior, Domenique de Villepin, proposed that three great federations (Large Mosque of Paris, UOIF and FNMF) to form single lists for the next poll envisaged on April 26.
Muslims in France feel “stigmatised” by a new law which will outlaw Islamic headscarves in schools, a male Muslim leader has said. The ban on religious symbols in schools will come into force at the start of the new academic year this autumn. It is meant to underpin France’s strict separation of religion and state….
