Grand Mosque of Paris and Lyon rectors call for ‘national unity’ against far right

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Published 2024-07-04
The rectors of the Grand Mosque of Paris and Grand Mosque of Lyon, alongside others, called for “national unity” against the far right in France on Wednesday. They urged voters to go to the ballot boxes on Saturday to prevent the far right winning the elections, after the National Rally (RN) party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella led with 33 percent of the vote in the first round of the elections on Sunday.

Chems-eddine Hafiz, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, also highlighted the ties between France’s Muslim and Jewish communities and said attempts to set the two against each other are “unacceptable”.

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All Comments (21)
  • @mjoy8580
    free free free France free free free europe ~!!!
  • The expression 'far right' is bandied around in a totally irresponsible way. In all western countries.
  • @user-wl4cl1ph3b
    The French are like the British foreigners in their own country!
  • @amenra7613
    National unity against people who want france to remain france 😂 yeah that makss sense.
  • @smeghead7698
    Nationalism for Palestine, but not for France... Strange hypocrisy 🤔
  • @onedayagogo
    be sure to remember Ashling Murphy, Brenda Blainey, and Lorraine Cox, whilst u are voting today.
  • @joblogs8886
    I can't even find a small violin for this crap.
  • @hackrabiyah
    Both sides need to talk to each other. The far right is rising because of large illegal unchecked immigration. There is rising crime, there were some violent protests and the French culture is changing.
  • @mukundhvm7875
    The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is a brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity, but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt and enmity,” Dr. BR Ambedkar
  • @SamSam20230
    The rise of evil is not a movie name it is a fact rising in europe tge hystory repeat itself
  • @touriel8943
    I understand there are as many sects in Islam as in Christianity, but to say ALL Muslims welcome Republics is fatuous... Saudi Arabia is an absolute Monarchy, Iran is an ISLAMIC Republic, with the nominees chosen by an elect committee. ''The United Arab Emirates is gearing up for the second elections in its 40-year history, but officials and candidates are finding it tough to answer a commonly asked question: why can't everyone vote? The UAE government in July hand-picked 129,000 voters to elect 20 of the 40 members of the Federal National Council (FNC), an advisory assembly with very limited parliamentary powers. The pool represents 12 per cent of Emirati nationals in the Arabian Peninsula nation who will vote on September 24 2011 The rest of the council will be directly appointed by the Gulf Arab state, which is governed by several ruling families that transfer power from father to son, or brother to brother.''
  • Why Christianophobia is tolerated and Islam upheld in western societies ? How Islam views western women freedoms, equality and LGBT+ position in societies .
  • @IbnBahtuta
    Rectors? What part of the Sunnah is rectors? rector /rĕk′tər/ noun A cleric in charge of a parish in the Episcopal Church. An Anglican parish priest in a parish where historically the priest was entitled to the tithes. A Roman Catholic priest appointed to be managerial as well as spiritual head of a church or other institution, such as a seminary or university.
  • @joseph-sj7do
    Voting is important, Gazans voted Hamas and then Hamas cancelled all further voting, that is the Muslim way . Gazans are paying for that today