Prominent French Imam Resigns Over National Council Controversy

For more than 20 years, Mohamed Bajrafil has been an imam in France. The religious leader of Comorian origin who mainly worked at the mosque in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, has just renounced his position.
His decision was made on Friday, November 20, due to the recent announcement of the creation of a National Council of Imams (CNI) by the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), reports Saphirnews. "It will be without me!" rejected, bitterly, the Muslim theologian who sees it as a great "contempt" for all the imams evolving outside the member federations of the representative body of the Muslim faith.
"Who is going to label me? Puppets? It’s no!" [...] But who is entrusted with the reins of an imams council? Representatives of consular Islam!" continues, very upset, the forty-year-old who has been trained in Islamic sciences since the age of six, and who says he wants to focus on activities other than the imamate from which he did not draw any salary anyway.
Mohamed Bajrafil says he has had enough of being "insulted, mocked" both by "the Salafists" and by "Islamophobes" and identitarians. After Daesh, "the far right has put a target on my back." "I learned a month ago from my sister that every Friday, my family (in the Comoros) cries and prays for me for fear that something might happen to me. That’s where we are!" laments Mohamed Bajrafil, author of the book "Islam de France, l’an I". "Some still think it’s a joke. I say here that no," he concludes.
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