Rector Chems-eddine Hafiz calls on public authorities to combat this phenomenon “which dangerously aggravates tensions in our country”.
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The Grand Mosque of Paris is concerned, Friday, November 3, about the “gradual release” with a word “racist and hateful against the Muslims of France”. She calls on public authorities to combat this phenomenon. “which dangerously aggravates tensions in our country”, in the middle of the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
“The Great Mosque of Paris is extremely concerned by the sharp rise in acts and speeches harming groups, people and property because of their religious affiliations, whatever they may be, in France,” says rector Chems-eddine Hafiz in this press release.
The rector speaks of “scandalous and reprehensible comments” in the media
This resurgence “undermines religious coexistence and dangerously aggravates tensions in our country, at a time of the unbearable drama unfolding in the Middle East”, adds the manager, who asks the public authorities to “make all arrangements” to combat this phenomenon. The Great Mosque is particularly alarmed “scandalous and reprehensible comments” held “by certain political and media figures”, “in order to” according to her “to cast shame on our Muslim fellow citizens and exclude them from the national community.”
On Wednesday, the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) denounced comments by lawyer Arno Klarsfeld, who had mentioned a “Muslim minority which is active” according to him in matters of anti-Semitism. The Audiovisual and Digital Regulatory Authority (Arcom) has been informed in recent days of the declarations of Arno Klarsfeld as well as those of the editorialist Pascal Perri; who mentioned on LCI a “couscous anti-Semitism”which he apologized for on X.