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After the failure of the CFCM, the State wants to reorganize Islam in France

2022-01-17T18:48:56.901Z


INQUIRY - The period is decisive for Islam in France. The French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) could disintegrate this week in favor of a new body, Forif, modeled on the German model, which will be announced next week by the government.


The French Council of the Muslim Worship (CFCM) saw a shipwreck.

This Thursday, January 20, a new captain was to take command of the ship: Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the current rector of the Mosque of Paris.

But he has been in rebellion for a year against the structure of which he was nevertheless the vice-president, because of a draft charter by the imam of the CFCM which he found too philo-Islamic and not sufficiently republican.

On March 20, 2021, Hafiz, a professional lawyer, even left

the CFCM ship

“definitively” with loss and a crash.

He took with him four founding federations of the CFCM including the former UOIF, the Muslim association of France.

He launched into the turbulent waters of Islam in France a new building, a frontally competing

"coordination"

which has since ceased to torpedo the CFCM in a merciless battle for influence.

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Last skirmish to date: last Friday, an internal email, signed by the dissidents of the CFCM and Chems-Eddine Hafiz in person.

He was announcing...

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Source: lefigaro

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