Source: BBC
French mosques have invited non-Muslims in to try to create greater understanding of Islam in France.
Visitors are being offered hot drinks, pastries, calligraphy demonstrations and discussion during the “open-house” weekend.
The country’s leading Muslim body, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), seeks to distance mainstream Islam from recent jihadist attacks.
The initiative comes a year after the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris.
Jihadist gunmen killed 17 people at different Paris sites, including the offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket.
Categories: Europe, France, Islamophobia