(Morocco World News) The French government intends to replace the country’s largest Muslim-rights organization with one free from “foreign influence” amid a crackdown on Islamic organizations in France.
French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin announced on January 20 that the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) would be replaced by a new religious representation organization.
“This is the end of foreign influence by Islam in France,” Darmanin claimed.
In an interview with Franceinfo, the minister noted that the CFCM was established “to structure France’s Islam,” but that it would have revealed its limitations.
Darmanin believes that France is being subjected to “very significant foreign state intervention, which we cannot accept.” The Islamic body, he claimed, was organized around “national federations: Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Comorians, and Turks.”
