To foster a “French Islam”, Imams in France take pictures with Netanyahu and don’t prohibit liquor trading

Two weeks after the “Charlie Hebdo” events, which were utterly rejected by all Muslims, certain imams in France began before the various French media channels to offer their services in order to satisfy France, by overtly expressing their disapproval of the deadly attack targeting the satirical French magazine, while repeating at length the refrain of peace and tolerance without issuing any clear condemnation of the continued blasphemous cartoons published by the blameworthy French magazine that made fun of the Grand Imam of the Muslims, noble Prophet Mohamed, God’s peace and blessings be upon him.

Unfortunately, these increased concessions made by these imams, with on focus one named Hassan Al Chalghoumi, who is the President of the Forum of Imams of France and President of the Union of peoples for peace, and who shamelessly backed the magazine’s lame argument related to the so-called “freedom of expression” to publish such despicable cartoons offending the lofty Prophet of Islam, without pulling the rug out from underneath it or criticizing the French famous equation that silence about any issue by someone is a sign of consent.

As a matter of fact, the “Imamate” or the job of religious preaching, has become a career for some unemployed youth in France, contrary to the practice in Algeria at an earlier time when the young graduated Imams volunteered to seek the only consent from God Almighty, and not to yearn, as it’s the common practice nowadays, for salaries, perks and other privileges.

The number of mosques and places of worship places is estimated at around between 1,500 and 2,000, according to French statistics, and by the same token the number of imams and muftis now reaches about 5,000 across France.

Most of them hail from Algeria and Morocco but they are currently locked into a bitter rivalry for control and predominance over certain mosques and places of worship in many parts of France including the Grand mosque of the capital Paris.

Since the events of 11 September 2001, France has decided to focus its shady deleterious influence on mosques; the French Interior Minister then said explicitly that France “would not accept foreign tutelage regarding the practice of Islam on its soil”.

This stern warning was primarily intended to Algeria, and this is why the majority of Imams, notably those who were sent now and then by Algeria or Morocco to France or those who were trained in France itself, are used to ask shamelessly for the consent of France more than that of God Almighty in blatant defiance of all the lofty precepts and incommensurable values enshrined in the holy Koran and the Prophet’s noble Sunnah.