French Council of the Muslim Faith

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Conseil Français du Culte Musulman (French: French Council of the Muslim Faith), usually abbreviated to CFCM, a group that is made up of 25 CRCMs (Conseil Regional du Culte Musulman or Regional Councils of the Muslim Faith). The current president of the CFCM is the mufti of the Paris Mosque, Dalil Boubakeur.

The group, a private nonprofit association, was created on May 28, 2003. While the group has no special legal standing, it is the de facto representative of the French Muslims before the national government and is now dominated by radicals, in particular the UOIF, close to the Muslim Brotherhood. Its creation was actually supported by then Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, who desired to have some "official" representative of the Muslim community, in the same manner as there exist "official" representatives of the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths. Critics allege that, in virtue of laïcité, there was no need to give official representation to a religious group, which lead to communautarisme. They note that most of the Muslim population of France is not well represented by such religious institutions. Furthermore, newspapers like Le Canard enchaîné or Charlie Hebdo underlined how Sarkozy favoured the radical UOIF.