France prohibits the entry of Islamic clerics from abroad

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The publication “De Site”, from January of next year, the French government will no longer allow any more clerics to be sent to this country. “Emmanuel Macron”, the French president, already started this process in 2020.

Now, Gerald Daronin, the French interior minister, has written to the countries concerned about this has informed his country’s decision and announced that this law will be enforced from the beginning of 2024.

According to Daronin, Islamic clerics from countries such as Morocco, Tunisia or Algiers have been sent and are currently active in French communities, they should have a new status from April and be paid directly by their association of mosques in France. The purpose of this work is that the clergy and missionaries working in France are not employees of foreign countries. This is why the training of clergy in French universities should be expanded. Zem himself started “Islamic separatism”. This means that French mosques are no longer financed from abroad. In response to the terrorist attacks in Nice and Paris, the French cabinet launched a legal package against self-described radical Islamism. In December 2020, this plan was approved by the Council of Ministers.

The German government also recently stopped the entry of religious missionaries from this country in order to reduce the influence of the Turkish government in its mosques. And he wants to replace them in mosques and Islamic associations in Germany with imams and clerics trained in the country. sends to Germany and now, according to the decisions made by the German government, this process should change in the future. The German federal government wants to train more clergy and preachers in the country and prevent them from being accepted from Turkey.

This issue has been controversial in Germany for years, because The religious commissioners, who are usually appointed for four years, are Turkish government officials, follow instructions from Ankara and, according to the German government, usually have only incomplete information about the reality of life in German society.

Germany is skeptical about Ankara’s covert role in managing the activities of these imams, especially after the failed 2016 coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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