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The Elysee Palace announced that President Emmanuel Macron received yesterday evening, Wednesday, officials of the Islamic religion in France, who presented to him, at his request, the general lines of the formation of a national council of imams.
The council will be responsible for issuing credits to Muslim clerics in France and withdrawing 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 Council officials a period of two weeks to bring him this letter, 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, to specify that Islam in France is a religion and not a political movement, and to stipulate the end of interference or affiliation with countries foreign.
The head of the French Council of Islamic Religion, Mohamed Mousavi, the dean of the Paris Mosque, Shams El Din Hafez, as well as representatives of the nine federations that make up the French Council of Islamic Religion participated in the meeting.
Macron hopes, behind the formation of the National Council of Magnets, to end in 4 years the presence of 300 foreign imams in France “with scholarships” from Turkey, Morocco and Algeria.
In his meeting with leaders of the Islamic religion, Macron told representatives of the nine federations affiliated with the French Council of Islamic Religion that he knows that several of them have ambiguous positions on these issues, highlighting his audience that it is necessary to “leave of this confusion. “
Among these nine unions, which represent a large part of Muslims in France, there are three unions that do not adopt a “republican vision”, according to For the Elysee.
Many countries of the Islamic world witness demonstrations against Macron’s statements on Islam (Anatolia)Warning
Macron warned his interlocutors that “if some do not sign this letter, we will draw conclusions,” noting that he “took note of their proposals.”
The Council of Imams will not only be authorized to grant imams permits and give them official cards, but will also be able to withdraw these cards from them if they violate the “Charter of the Republic’s values” and a moral code to be agreed.
Each imam and preacher should be familiar with a different level of the French language and possess educational certificates that can reach the university level.
These developments coincide with widespread anger in several Islamic countries as a result of Macron’s defense of cartoons that insult the prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and considers them part of freedom of expression.
Macron’s defense of these cartoons came during his speech about a young Muslim of Chechen origin who killed a French history teacher who offered his students insulting cartoons of the Holy Prophet last October.
And the French president previously said that Islam is in crisis everywhere.
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