Soheib Bencheikh
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Soheib Bencheikh (born 20 December 1961, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)[1] is an Islamic religious leader and author and would-be French politician.
Bencheikh graduated in
Conseil français du culte musulman
(Council of French Muslims) since its creation in 2003.
Bencheikh is an anti-
secular democracy
.
Among other "modernist" points of view, he stated that education is the best protection of women's honor and well-being (and not the headscarf, which he says is not mandatory).
Bencheikh attempted to run for president in the 2007 French presidential election but failed to get the 500 endorsements needed in order to become an official candidate. He created the movement “Elan Républicain” specifically for this purpose.[4]
See also
- Islamic Modernism
References
- ^ Profile of Soheib Bencheikh
- ^ http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/22213_751311283_713658837.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Pipes, Daniel (1994-09-01). "Review of L'Islam et la Republique: Des musulmans de France contre l'integrisme". Middle East Quarterly.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Soheib Bencheikh, Marianne et le Prophète: L'Islam dans la France laïque, Paris, Grasset, 1998 (ISBN 2-246-53871-8).
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