Overview
- The Grande Mosquée de Paris released and presented “Musulmans en Occident, pratiques culturelles immuables, présence adaptée” on Tuesday after more than three years of work.
- Two commissions shaped the volume: a body of imams and a civil panel of about 80 figures, with interviews including Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and other public voices.
- The text rejects violence and extremism, affirms equal dignity, and distinguishes personal religious ethics from any claim to a law competing with French civil rules.
- Practical guidance includes urging acceptance of removing the headscarf in professional settings when required and calling for restraint and dignity in responses to perceived blasphemy.
- Critics questioned the feasibility of “adaptation” without doctrinal change and faulted the choice of publisher Éditions Albouraq for its catalog, while the rector defended the imprint.