This instance, long interlocutor of the public authorities, knows a stirred end, with eager exchanges between federations which compose it.
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In a sour climate, the French Council of the Muslim worship (CFCM) probably saw its last days. An extraordinary general meeting could be organized on February 19, in Paris, with a view to dissolving it. This is at least the intention expressed by the members of the office of this organization, which represents the second religion of France among the public authorities, gathered by videoconference, Sunday, January 16th. An extraordinary office was to take place Tuesday, January 18 to formally adopt this calendar. This decision could give the free way to a possible new structure, if so that the actors derived from the Forum for the Islam of France (Forif), organized by the State, experience the necessity.
The existence of the CFCM ends in a battle of communiqués where the names of birds fly. It opposes, on the one hand, the four federations leaving the office in March 2021 (the Great Mosque of Paris, the French Federation of Islamic Associations of Africa, Comoros and the West Indies, Muslims of France and the gathering of the Muslims of France) and, on the other, the four federations remained there (the union of the mosques of France, the coordination committee of the Turkish Muslims of France, the Islamic Confederation Milli Gorus France and Faith and Practice).
Querelle for the Presidency
Under the leadership of the Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris (GMP), ChemS-Eddine Hafiz, the resuncings formed a “coordination” when three federations refused a year ago to sign a charter of principles For the Islam of France. Last week, they tried to organize a grouping of two antagonistic clans. According to them, it had become possible since December 2021 the three federations in question finally took the party to sign this charter supposed to constitute the base of a regulatory organization of imams and chaplains. Although they have left the office, they claimed on Friday, the rotating presidency of the CFCM. After Mohammed Moussaoui (UMF), whose mandate ends on January 19 at midnight, it was Chems-Eddine Hafiz who was to succeed him for two years, under the agreement in the 2020 election.
Opposite this claim, the four federations remained at the CFCC office have chosen another way. They announced that as from January 20 the CFCM would be led by a collegial presidency formed by the two non-resigned vice-presidents of the Bureau. “Only an extraordinary general meeting is entitled, in accordance with the statutes of the CFCM, to reintegrate the resigning in the office and to make the necessary decisions for [his] become”, they declared on Sunday. As of 19 February, they set the date of this General Assembly which will have the only agenda the vote of the following resolution: “Dissolution of the CFCM to enable the actors of the Muslim worship at the local level to set up a new form of democratic representation. Muslim worship. “Monday, the GMP has” confirmed its total and final withdrawal of all the CFCM bodies “, not without denouncing what it calls” the manigans “of the current presidency. Sad epitaph for a burial.