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Mohammed Moussaoui

French Islamic leader

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ1942769 ↗
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Mohammed Moussaoui (born 1 April 1964 in Figuig, Morocco) is the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith.

As of 2008, he is naturalizing as a citizen of France.

On August 2, 2011, he gave an interview with French radio station RTL, where he stated that there are nearly 150 new mosques under construction in France, and that there are more practicing Muslims than Roman Catholics in the country. France, home to an estimated six million Muslims, has the largest Muslim population in the European Union.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohammed Moussaoui” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.