The installation of the National Council of Imams (CNI) led by Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM), scheduled for January 9, is postponed due to Covid.
The idea of such a body emerged with the speech of Emmanuel Macron at Les Mureaux, in October 2020, on the subject of Islamist separatism.
The president entrusted the CFCM, the privileged interlocutor of the public authorities, with this mission.
The government's objective is clear: to contain the expansion of fundamentalism and foreign religious influences in mosques by supervising the training of imams on French soil.
The initiative makes sense, but struggles to find consensus among representatives of the Muslim faith who are fighting over the legitimacy of two projects with major differences.
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The signing of the "charter of principles for Islam" is one of them.
Condition imposed by the executive, it provokes a controversy within the CFCM, because three organizations which compose it refused ...
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