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Macron wants to end the presence of 300 foreign imams in France (AFP)
The Elysee Palace announced that President Emmanuel Macron received, on Wednesday evening, officials of the Islamic religion in France, who, at his request, presented him with guidelines for the formation of a national council of imams charged with issuing credits. Muslim clerics in France and withdraw them when necessary.
The French presidency said that Macron also asked his interlocutors to draft a “charter of republican values” within 15 days that the French Council of the Islamic Faith and the nine federations that comprise it must abide by.
The presidency stressed that Macron gave Parliament officials a period of two weeks to prepare this letter for him, confirming the information published by the newspapers “Le Figaro” and “Le Parisien”.
The president asked his interlocutors to include a statement in the letter of recognition of the values of the republic, specifying that Islam in France is a religion and not a political movement, and stipulating the end of interference or affiliation with countries foreign.
The meeting was attended by the president of the French Council of the Islamic Faith, Mohamed Moussaoui, the dean of the Paris Mosque, Shams al-Din Hafez, as well as representatives of the nine federations that make up the French Council of the Islamic Religion.
Since his speech in early October against separatism and extremist Islam and after the two terrorist attacks in which teacher Samuel Bate was assassinated near Paris and three people died in a cathedral in Nice (southeast), Macron has increased his pressure on the leaders of the Islamic religion in France to purify it of foreign influence and extremism. And political trends.
Macron hopes, behind the formation of the National Council of Magnets, to end in four years with the presence of 300 foreign imams in France “with scholarships” from Turkey, Morocco and Algeria.
In his meeting with the leaders of the Islamic religion, Macron told representatives of the nine federations affiliated to the French Council of Islamic Religion that he knows that several of them have ambiguous positions on these issues, stressing that it is necessary “to get out of this confusion. “.
Of these nine unions, which represent a large part of Muslims in France, there are three that do not adopt a “republican vision”, according to the Elysee.
Macron warned his interlocutors that “in the event that some do not sign this letter, we will draw conclusions,” noting that he “took note of their proposals.”
The Council of Magnets will not only be authorized to grant permits to magnets and give them an official card, but will also be able to withdraw these cards if they violate the “Charter of Values of the Republic” and a moral code to be agreed, and depending on the role. of each one of them: a prayer imam, a mosque preacher and a preacher, will have Each imam has knowledge of a different level of the French language and the possession of educational certificates can reach the university level.
(Brush from France)
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