(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned French President Emmanuel Macron’s “attempt to dictate the principles of the Islamic faith” to French Muslim leaders, and his demand they “falsely state that Islam is an ‘apolitical religion.'”
Macron on Wednesday gave the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) two weeks to draw up a charter of “republican values” with which its member organisations and affiliates would be expected to comply, amid a row over Islam’s place in the country.
Macron warned that “if some do not sign this charter, we will draw the consequences from that.”
CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States, slammed the ultimatum on Thursday, declaring that “the French government has no right to tell Muslims or any other religious minority how to interpret their own faith.”
