French Muslim Council Under Fire Over Teen’s Anti-Islam Video Controversy

Mila is the name of this young girl targeted by death threats for having broadcast a video in which she insults Islam and Muslims. The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has already given its opinion on this case which continues to be controversial. The latest reaction, that of the Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlène Schiappa, is not there to appease.

Indeed, she took the floor in turn this Tuesday morning to denounce the "criminal remarks" of a member of the CFCM. "I find that these are criminal remarks, these are guilty remarks, and I fight against this idea that a woman, a young girl in this case, but whoever it is, who would be a victim of violence, of cyber-harassment, it would be because this person would have looked for it," she declared on the radio France Inter, before adding that these words are "unworthy of a leader", who is moreover "an opinion leader".

Faced with this controversy, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) published a clarification which notably takes up its official reaction already expressed in its press release of January 23, deploring in passing its total occlusion by the media.

"The CFCM recalls that it officially expressed itself, on January 23, through the voice of its president Mohammed Moussaoui, to reaffirm that ’nothing can justify death threats against a person, regardless of the seriousness of the remarks she may have made’," specifies the president of the CFCM, Mr. Mohammed Moussaoui, in his clarification of January 28.