Will it be necessary to organize a sort of council of Islam in France?
The idea of a council, a meeting of religious leaders to resolve theological quarrels, is foreign to the Muslim world, but the debates tearing apart the Islam of France about the charter of imams are now religious.
The disagreements relate to the very nature of Islam in a Westernized country, as shown by the arguments just published by the two Turkish movements and the Faith and Practice movement, of Indo-Pakistani inspiration, which refuse to sign the charter of principles of Islam in France developed by the French Council for Muslim Worship (CFCM) and which was presented to the President of the Republic on January 18.
The three recalcitrant movements are however founding members of the French Council of Muslim Worship.
This is the CCMTF (Coordination Committee of Turkish Muslims in France) which reports directly to Dyanet, the Directorate of Religious Affairs of the Turkish government,
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