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Created in 2003 under the leadership of Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior, the French Council for the Muslim Faith, controlled by a few large federations, died mainly of its own divisions.
Late the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM)! From this Thursday, January 20, the representative body of Islam in France no longer has a president. The mandate of Mohammed Moussaoui came to an end the day before. Before his departure, however, the manager convened an extraordinary general meeting to record the self-dissolution of the CFCM. But also to try to develop new statutes. Created in 2003 under the leadership of Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior, the CFCM, controlled by a few large Muslim federations, died mainly of its own divisions. “Its structuring put the worm in the fruit, analyzes sociologist Franck Frégosi, a specialist in Islam. The CFCM has been the site of a tireless war of egos. But above all, it failed on most of the major issues, such as funding, training and the status of imams, the management of chaplaincies.
According to the statutes of the CFCM, its presidency was to fall on January 20 to the media rector of the Great Mosque of Paris (GMP), under Algerian obedience, the lawyer Chems-Eddine Hafiz. But who has, in fact, resigned from the body since March 2021. This grotesque situation is the latest episode in the war being waged, through a handful of major federations, …