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class="story-body">Le prsident de la Fdration nationale des musulmans de France (FNMF), M. Mohamed Bchari, a plaid pour la mise en place d'un nouvel institut de formation des imams, en association notamment avec le ministre franais de l'Education suprieure et des universits islamiques, notamment celles du Maghreb.</p> <p class="story-body">Selon M. Bchari, franais d'origine marocaine, les trois instituts existants ont t un "chec". "Un chec d  des programmes disparates ou purement engags", a affirm M. Bchari dans un entretien accord jeudi  la MAP.</p>  <p class="story-body">La FNMF est sortie grande gagnante du scrutin, des 6 et 13 avril, pour dsigner les futurs membres du Conseil franais du culte musulman (CFCM), avec 18 siges sur 41 au Conseil d'administration.</p> <p class="story-body">Cette question de la formation des imams est effectivement l'un des thmes importants qui seront voqus au sein de ce futur Conseil franais du culte musulman. "Je souhaite qu'il y ait en France un institut de formation des imams de France, qui parlent franais, qui connaissent notre culture et qui respectent nos coutumes", avait dclar le ministre franais de l'Intrieur, Nicolas Sarkozy.</p> <p class="story-body">Pour M. Bchari, vice-prsident du futur CFCM, la cration d'un nouvel institut, en partenariat notamment avec des universits islamiques "reconnues pour leur ouverture", telles que Karaouyine au Maroc, l'Emir Abdel Kader en Algrie et la Zaitouna en Tunisie", est "plus que souhaitable".</p> <p class="story-body">Le prsident de la FNMF a galement appel  la rgularisation des imams prsents sur le sol franais car, selon lui, "pour sortir l'Islam des caves, il faut rgulariser les imams clandestins".</p> <p class="story-body">"La plupart des imams en France n'ont pas de statut juridique lgal ni de salaire rgulier. Ils vivent souvent de l'aumne des fidles. Leur situation est vraiment prcaire", s'est indign M. Bchari en prcisant que Nicolas Sarkozy a promis que ce dossier sera parmi ses "priorits".</p> <p class="story-body">D'autres chantiers aussi importants attendent ce conseil et figurent dj dans la plate-forme de la Fdration, a observ le prsident de la FNMF.</p> <p class="story-body">La FNMF a en effet labor des propositions, lesquelles seront soumises au CFCM. Elles concernent notamment le problme des carrs musulmans dans les cimetires, le plerinage, l'aumnerie, et l'image de l'Islam dans les mdias et les manuels scolaires franais.</p> <p class="story-body">"Rare sont les cimetires qui disposent d'un carr musulman en France. L'intgration de l'Islam en France commence aussi par les cimetires", a-t-il dplor.</p> <p class="story-body">Les conseils rgionaux du culte musulman seront d'ailleurs les interlocuteurs directs auprs des mairies franaises pour traiter cette question. "Nous souhaitons des carrs mais aussi des cimetires dans des rgions  forte population musulmane comme Marseille, Lyon, la Lorraine et l'Ile-de-France", a-t-il ajout.</p> <p class="story-body">Le problme du plerinage sera pos tout comme celui des aumniers dans les hpitaux et les prisons, a encore expliqu M. Bchari. "24.000 musulmans partent chaque anne  la Mecque dans des conditions dplorables. Ils constituent une bonne proie pour des agences de voyages sans scrupule", s'est-il mu.</p> <p class="story-body">L'image de l'Islam dans les mdias et dans les manuels scolaires franais constitue un autre sujet de proccupation pour le prsident de la FNFM qui compte bien demander la mise en place d'un comit mixte regroupant des reprsentants du ministre de l'Education et des maisons d'dition afin de "travailler ensemble et essayer de rectifier l'image fausse qu'on donne de l'Islam et des musulmans".</p> <p class="story-body">Se rjouissant du taux de participation aux scrutins des 6 et 13 avril (88 %), M. Bchari a par ailleurs soulign la "forte adhsion" de la communaut musulmane  un processus "long et difficile".</p> <p class="story-body">"Pour la Fdration, c'est l'aboutissement d'un travail responsable et de proximit", a-t-il not, tout en rendant hommage aux "efforts" et  l'"engagement" du ministre de l'Intrieur Nicolas sarkozy.</p> <p class="story-body">Cette lection du CFCM avait pour objectif "d'achever l'intgration" de l'Islam en France. "C'est la seule religion qui n'est pas gre par la loi 1905. Ce traitement  part de l'Islam en France a fait perdurer une gestion policire et scuritaire", a-t-il relev.</p> <p class="story-body">Concernant la question des financements des lieux de culte, M. Bchari a estim que pour barrer la route  des financements occultes, il est "primordial" de mettre  profit la manne de la viande halal. "Le march de la viande "dite halal" est norme. Il y a un prlvement de 1 FF par kilo de viande vendu. 500.000 tonnes de viande "halal" sont consommes sans compter l'exportation", a-t-il constat.</p> <p class="story-body">"Ces prlvements qui se font au nom de la dfense des intrts de la communaut musulmane doivent tre strictement contrls", a-t-il plaid en prconisant la cration d'une "commission de la viande halal" pour permettre que l'argent gnr par cette activit, finance la construction des lieux de culte ou le paiement des salaires des imams.</p> <p class="story-body">M. Bchari est  la tte de la FNMF depuis dix ans. 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