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The Paris Mosque gets angry and demands the resumption of worship for the end of Ramadan

2020-05-05T15:45:41.749Z


Rector Maître Hafiz is ready to take legal action to denounce a "discrimination" of the Muslim religion.


In a statement of rare firmness, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, threatens, on May 5, to attack the government in court if the plan to resume worship - as announced by Edouard Philippe before the Senate on May 4 - intervened for the great weekend of Pentecost, so no earlier than May 29.

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Master Hafiz asks "urgently to the public authorities" that the date for the resumption of worship is therefore advanced to May 24, that is to say, at the end of Ramadan and its Eid festival. Otherwise, explains the rector, who is also a lawyer by profession, it would be "a serious act of manifest discrimination" because "the holiday of Eid which closes the holy month of Ramadan is as important as Jewish or Christian Pentecost". He said he was ready "to use all legal means to defend the moral interests of Muslims in France". With the "possibility of a referral to the competent courts".

Amazement and disappointment

In his press release, the new rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris - he replaced Dalil Boubakeur at the beginning of the year - also expresses his "amazement and disappointment" at the "unexplained reversals operated by the executive, which announces the possibility celebration of religious services in places of worship before the scheduled date, May 29, to allow the organization of religious ceremonies related to the Jewish and Christian feasts of Pentecost. ”

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If this decision was taken, he warned, "it would in fact create inequality between citizens" by "de facto excluding Muslim worship". And "Muslims, linked to the National Federation of the Great Mosque of Paris (GMP), which I have the honor to represent, would not understand this unfair measure of the 'double standards', the feast of Eid being separated from Jewish and Christian Pentecost for only four days ”.

The GMP therefore requests "to set May 24 as the date for the resumption of the celebration of religious ceremonies for all places of worship without exclusion".

Source: lefigaro

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