Minister Gérald Darmanin welcomes the birth of this new “national dialogue body” representatives of Islam, who fail to agree on the financing of worship.
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Some eighty actors of the Muslim worship came from many departments gathered in Paris, Saturday, February 5, for the first plenary meeting of the Forum of France (Forif), supported by representatives of the central office. Cults of the Ministry of the Interior. Gérald Darmanin, who participated in the afternoon, saw in this event the birth of a new “national dialogue body” of the representatives of the second religion of France with the State. It is expected that it meet once a year.
This forum is not intended to be a permanent structure, but rather a framework intended to discuss and settle with the public authorities of the concrete difficulties faced by the actors of Muslim worship today. “Now, there will be no more for the unique representative of the Muslim worship” but “collectives organized by thematic for concrete results,” summed up the Minister of the Interior.
” Funding is the nerve of war “
The participants presented the first proposals to which they reached the four working groups devoted to the chaplainies, the status and the formation of the IMAMS, the application of the law comprising respect for the principles of the Republic (CPRP ) and to fight against anti-Muslim acts. Evacuated preparatory work because it immediately raises tensions and conflicts of interest, however, the issue of financing has not been slow to arise … and cause tensions.
Today, the circuits of financing often lack transparency, whether within the mosques, travel agencies that organize the pilgrimage or in the halal circuit. They are also insufficient to finance the training of cultural staff (imams and chaplains) and their remuneration. Hence, moreover, the presence for years of three hundred emaids by Turkey, Algeria and Morocco and detached by these states in French mosques, which obviously alleges the expenses of these places of prayers.
Saturday morning appeared the idea of a fifth working group devoted to this financial issue. The essayist Hakim El Karoui presented his Muslim Association Project for the Islam of France (Amif), which he has been offering for three years. Amif would be a certification business of travel agencies involved in the pilgrimage and whose ambition, eventually would be to be able to finance projects. An agreement between France and Saudi Arabia would be in the process of negotiating on the management of the 25,000 visas issued for Hajj.
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