Les tentatives d’organisation du culte musulman en France au prisme du principe de laïcité

• Main Author: Pierre-Henri Prélot
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg 2018-11-01
• Series: Revue du Droit des Religions
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rdr/324

For the past twenty years, the public authorities have sought to institutionally organize Islam in order to enable its peaceful practice and thereby promote the integration of Muslim citizens into the national community. This policy is not without evoking the regime of recognized religious bodies as it functioned in the nineteenth century, and which provided the State with social control over religious forces. However, efforts to organize the Muslim faith are now part of the legal framework of laïcité, which obliges the public authorities to be neutral and to respect the self-determination of religions. Our purpose is precisely to demonstrate that these efforts are consistent with the requirement of laïcité, which implies guaranteeing freedom of religion within the bounds of public order.