Jean CASTEX had, in April 2021, addressed a “message of fraternity and desired a good Ramadan” to “our Muslim compatriots” at the beginning of the month of Islamic fasting. This year, silence is de rigueur, obviously because of the presidential campaign. It is far the time when, in 2001, Lionel Jospin invited Matignon the members of the French Council of the Muslim worship (CFCM) for a “Republican Iftar”.
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron had attended an Iftar organized by the CFCM, before choosing, the following years, to delegate his Prime Minister, then his Minister of the Interior, in charge of Cults. While the CFCM is in crisis and the Elysee intends to replace it with a forum of the Islam of France, the prudence of the French authorities in this month of Ramadan contrasts with the Iftars that have very officially organized this week the ambassadors to Paris of the United States and the United Arab Emirates.
At the US Ambassador
Denise Bauer, that Obama had already named Ambassador in Belgium, animated the Committee of “Women for Biden” during the Presidential Campaign of 2020. This Democratic activist has, because of the Republican blockage in the Senate, PU Take office in Paris only last February. And she wishes to remember, on her invitation card, that she is also ambassador to the Principality of Monaco.
Once an Imam has launched, in a lounge of his residence, the call to the prayer that marks the end of the daytime, the ambassador wishes his many guests “an excellent Ramadan, conducive to the renewal of the commitment of each other “. It evokes the memory of Thomas Jefferson, one of the first ambassadors of the United States in Paris, which regularly consulted a Qur’an today exposed to the Library of the Congress.
putting in parallel the declaration of independence of the United States of 1776 and the French declaration of the rights of man and the citizen of 1789, it judges “more urgent than ever to make these values sound”, to the hour when the resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine participates in a global defense of the rule of law. It finally emphasizes that in China the Ouity can not observe the fasting of Ramadan, in secret, while in Myanmar the Rohingya were the victim of a true “genocide” with the only fact of their Muslim faith.
at the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates
HEND AL-OTAIBA, Ambassador in France For less than a year, is the sister of the ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, the wife of the ambassador to UNESCO (United Nations Organization for the United Nations Education, science and culture) and the daughter of a former oil minister.
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