elpais.com 16/04/1911 French Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, met yesterday with representatives of France's major religions (Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox) and explained some of measures that will implement the Government to ensure secularism. These include the ban on prayer in the streets in the cities of Paris and Marseille. Also create an inter-ministerial working group to clarify, before the summer, conditions that the principle of neutrality in public services and to propose, for its effect, the appropriate legal measures. This working group, for example, address the prohibition to refuse a doctor in a hospital or clinic because of their sex or religion.
Mohammed Moussaoui, President of the French Muslim Council, a participant in the meeting, praised the "conciliatory nature" of the interview and agreed that the street is not the natural place to practice the prayer of the Muslims. " In Paris, this occurs in three areas by the lack of space in the mosques.
The measure was examined last week in a controversial debate entitled For secularism, organized by the Union for a Popular Majority, the party of Nicolas Sarkozy.
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