(AFP) The head of France’s main Muslim organisation on Thursday slammed a “unilateral” move by three Islamic groups not to sign up to an anti-extremism charter championed by President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron wants French Muslim groups to sign up to the charter as he seeks to secure France’s secular system in the wake of a spate of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals in 2020.
But the Committee for Coordination of Turkish Muslims in France (CCMTF) and the Milli Gorus Islamic Confederation (CMIG) — both catering to citizens of Turkish origin — as well as the Faith and Practice movement, announced late Wednesday that they would not be signing up to the charter.
