(Middle East Eye) A coalition of civil society organisations on Monday urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to investigate France at the European Court of Justice over its controversial “imam charter,” saying that it violates Muslims’ right to free speech and religious freedoms.
Twenty-five NGO groups in 11 countries — including Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Switzerland — called on von der Leyen to take “immediate action against France for its state-sponsored Islamophobia, and for imposing the discriminatory and human rights-violating imam charter.”
In January, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) adopted the imam charter, which sets out a framework for Muslim faith leaders to be certified as compliant with an “Islam of France,” at the behest of France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
