The individual who had stabbed a muezzin in a mosque in central London at the beginning of the year has been sentenced to 7 years and three months in prison. He will also have to serve four years of probation after his release, for grievous bodily harm and possession of a sharp object.
The Averroès mosque in Montpellier will not come under the authority of Morocco. This is the decision of the religious association in charge of the place of worship, whose transfer for a symbolic euro had not received the approval of the mayor.
The restrictive measures that were imposed on places of worship, in order to fight against the spread of the coronavirus in Belgium, have been slightly relaxed. The decision was made last Friday by the government.
The imam of Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi, says he has been the target of thousands of death threats since the assassination of Samuel Paty. He is accused of "having apologized in front of the Conflans college" and calling on Muslims to ’wake up’.
The Averroès mosque in Montpellier will not become the property of Morocco. This is what the association that owns the place of worship has just decided in an attempt to put an end to several weeks of controversy.
This Wednesday, December 9, the law against separatism, renamed the law strengthening the values of the Republic, was presented in the Council of Ministers. Kamel Kabtane, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, reacts on the issue.
Sam Brownback, the U.S. envoy for religious freedom, says he is "concerned about what is happening in France".
The Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB), the Association for the Management of the Grand Mosque of Brussels and the Coordination Council of Islamic Institutions of Belgium contest the allegations of the presence of Moroccan spies at the Grand Mosque of the Cinquantenaire.
The French State has decided to close the MHS Paris college-high school, the only Muslim secondary school in the city, for security reasons. 110 students are thus left out of school in the middle of the year and 18 workers are left without a job.
The rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, also vice-president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), says that secularism is an extraordinary opportunity for Muslims in France.
Faced with "creeping Islamism", Valérie Pécresse, President of the Île-de-France region, calls for "breaking up urban ghettos".
Montpellier mayor Michaël Delafosse expresses his opposition to the transfer for 1 symbolic euro of the grand mosque of La Paillade to Morocco .