FRANCE: LEADERS OF FRANCE'S FIVE MILLION MOSLEMS ANNOUNCE CREATION OF REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL OF MOSLEMS IN FRANCE (CRMF) TO LIASE BETWEEN THE MOSLEM COMMUNITY AND FRENCH OFFICIALDOM

Record ID: 646119

  • Title: FRANCE: LEADERS OF FRANCE'S FIVE MILLION MOSLEMS ANNOUNCE CREATION OF REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL OF MOSLEMS IN FRANCE (CRMF) TO LIASE BETWEEN THE MOSLEM COMMUNITY AND FRENCH OFFICIALDOM
  • Date: 10th January 1995
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JANUARY 10, 1995) REUTERS TELEVISION (RTV) - ACCESS ALL 1. GV PAN INTERIOR OF THE MINISTRY, FRENCH IMAMS (MOSLEM RELIGIOUS LEADERS) AND MOSLEM REPRESENTITIVES AWAITING START OF NEWS CONFERNCE 0.06 2. CU FRENCH INTERIOR MINISTER CHARLES PASQUA ADDRESSING NEWS CONFERENCE CALLS THE CREATION OF THE NEW ORGANISATION A GREAT DAY FOR THE COUNTRY (FRENCH) 0.42 3. CU RECTOR OF PARIS MOSQUE DALIL BOUBAKEUR SAYS WE WISH TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY AND THE FRENCH SOCIETY SINCE ISLAM IS NOW THE SECOND LARGEST RELIGION IN FRANCE. WITH THIS NEW ORGANISATION WE WILL NOW HAVE THE SAME STATUS AS OTHER RELIGIONS IN THE COUNTRY. (FRENCH) 1.48 4. GV NEWS CONFERENCE 1.51 5. SV PASQUA AND DALIL BOUBAKEUR STAND HOLDING COPY OF CHARTER AND SHAKE HANDS. 2.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 25th January 1995 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVACU2UEBFGC2ZIO2TNJIK8SU35L
  • Story Text: Leaders of France's five million Moslems, acting with government encouragement, on Tuesday (January 10) announced the creation of a body to handle the delicate relationship between their community and French officialdom.

    Dalil Boubakeur, a religious leader of the main Paris mosque (Imam) will head the group called the Representative Council of Moslems in France (CRMF).

    Boubakeur and other traditionalist Moslem leaders spoke at a news conference in Paris presided over by Interior Minister Charles Pasqua who has long pressed France's Moslems to create such a group as a barrier to Islamic fundamentalism.

    Pasqua, who has carried out crackdowns in the past year against suspected fundamentists linked to Islamic underground groups in Algeria, said France would speak only with the CRMF from now on when dealing with Moslem issues.

    He hinted at government financial backing for the group since most Moslems in France are poor immigrants from North or West Africa.

    Recent opinion polls have showed between five and 10 percent of Moslems in France sympathise with fundamentalist aims while the vast majority seek integration into society at large and are sometimes only nominally religious.


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