The CFCM is working on the training of imams

The rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, at the Elysee Palace on October 19, 2020. -

Following the attacks, the French Council for Muslim Worship is working on preventing radicalization and training religious officials.

It must be said that Emmanuel Macron, at the beginning of October, had given the CFCM, the main interlocutor of the public authorities, six months to create a procedure for "labeling imam training".

The association therefore worked this weekend on the deconstruction of extremist discourse, theological work or even the "common course for the training of imams".

The role of the Internet

"Based on the observation that the radicalized, often at odds with religious institutions, mainly become radicalized through the Internet and social networks, Muslim leaders must adapt to this situation and make more use of communication techniques specific to young people", estimated the CFCM.

For this, several proposals were put forward during two meetings held by videoconference.

Among them, those of "carrying out theological work on the misguided concepts of the Muslim religion" or of "creating units responsible for deconstructing extremist discourse by associating imams, chaplains and educators".

Another track envisaged, "to do a collegial work on the Friday sermon in order to disseminate a strong word of the religious executives carried by the imams".

To evoke the caricatures of the prophet of Islam to justify the assassination of a Man, is a profanation and a betrayal of the message of the prophet.

He himself has always ignored insults aimed at him and has never yielded to provocation or accepted acts of revenge.

- CFCM (@CfcmOfficiel) October 27, 2020

On the thorny subject of the training of imams, very unstructured in France, the CFCM considered that there is "the will and the real possibility of reaching an agreement on a common training course".

"The purpose of this course will be to train religious executives in France in charge of promoting, with one voice, an Islam in France fully anchored in the Republic and the religious landscape of our country", assured the CFCM.

Ending the presence of 300 foreign imams

Finally, the question of the certification of imams, a project launched many times in recent years, but never succeeded, "was also discussed".

This should make it possible to verify that religious leaders recognize their religious knowledge or even "their capacity to accompany the faithful, especially the youngest".

The training of imams should make it possible to meet another objective of the executive: the end, within four years, of the presence in France of the 300 foreign imams "seconded" by Turkey, Morocco and Algeria.

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