فرنسا: المجلس الإسلامي يستنكر استغلال قضايا المسلمين لتحقيق مكاسب انتخابية

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعرب المجلس الفرنسي للدين الإسلامي عن استنكاره لاستغلال قضايا المسلمين في حملات الانتخابات الفرنسية على إثر قيام رئيس الوزراء "فرانس فيلون" - المرشح الاشتراكي للرئاسة -بمطالبة المسلمين واليهود بالتخلي عن تعاليم التذكية الشرعية التي وصفها بأنها أصحبت "خارج إطار الزمن".

وقد أكد المجلس الإسلامي في بيانه رفضه التام أن يتم استغلال الإسلام والمسلمين ككبش فداء في الحملات الانتخابية، خاصةً في إطار سعي "ساركوزي" ووزرائه لكسب أصوات الناخبين المنتمين لليمين من مؤيدي حزب "الجبهة القومي" الفرنسي المناهض للإسلام والمسلمين. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslims used as 'scapegoats' in French vote: Muslim Council

The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) on Tuesday slammed the use of Muslims as "scapegoats" in the French election campaign in which halal slaughter has become a hot-button issue.

The statement came a day after Prime Minister Francois Fillon urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their "outdated" halal and kosher slaughter rules.

The CFCM, asked about Fillon's comment on halal, said it "does not accept that Islam and Muslims be used as scapegoats in this (election) campaign".

Richard Prasquier, head of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organisations, said Monday that he was "shocked" by Fillon's "stupefying" declaration.

The comments came as the right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ministers kept up their efforts to woo far-right voters from the anti-immigrant National Front led by Marine Le Pen.

Le Pen launched the halal debate last month when she claimed that all meat from abattoirs in the Paris region was prepared using Islamic halal traditions.

It later emerged that these abattoirs mostly supplied local Muslim butchers and that most meat sold in Paris came from outside the region.

France is home to western Europe's largest Jewish community, estimated at up to 700,000, and its largest Muslim minority, officially estimated at four million.

The country has for years been debating how far it is willing to go to accommodate Islam, now France's second religion.

Sarkozy's government has come under fire from Muslim groups for a series of measures implemented during his five-year rule that authorities say are aimed at protecting France's secular tradition.

These include a ban on wearing full-face veils such as the Islamic niqab and the burqa.

France will vote in the first round of a presidential election on April 22, followed by a second-round run-off on May 6.

The Socialist candidate Francois Hollande is well ahead of Sarkozy in the polls.