Rossignol wants a woman to head the Foundation for Islam in France – Boursorama

Laurence Rossignol, Minister of Women’s Rights, in Paris, July 16, 2016 (AFP / File / MATTHEW ALEXANDER)

Laurence Rossignol, Minister of women’s Rights, in Paris, July 16, 2016 (AFP / File / MATTHEW ALEXANDER)

Ms. Rossignol, interviewed by France Info, ” the right profile, is first someone to Muslim culture, which has a knowledge of human subtlety of Islam, secular someone, and perhaps the best profile, it would be also a woman ” .

“I think it would be good for a woman to confront the texts, culture, life, the lives of Muslim women can also wear this dimension of equality man-woman, which is a modern and republican dimension that must now concern all religions, “she continued, saying that there was” a subject in all religions on their relation to women. “

the Foundation works by Islam in France, created in 2005 but paralyzed by internal dissensions, will include control over the financing of the construction of Muslim places of worship. François Hollande spoke Tuesday evening informally called Chevènement to take the lead.

But the former interior minister “does not meet the third criterion I have just mentioned, the fact that is to say, being a woman, “noted Laurence Rossignol.

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