CALEM    Refuge

This year for Pride (July 3, 2021), our slogan “Always Too Much” was intended to denounce the standards which lock us into models and which leave behind prejudices and insults. Can our community question these social injunctions? How can we make them evolve?                        

We are convinced that to change these standards we must first understand where they come from and then question their legitimacy and their power in our life trajectories, while ensuring that the most marginalized are included in our networks, in order to make visible this formidable identity diversity present at the Pride this year in Marseille!

Thus, LGBT + migrants and members of our local network have prepared a colorful parade, thanks to the dance performance developed in collaboration with the artist Liam Warren, departing from the Palais Longchamp in Marseille:

 

 

CALEM    Institute

For our 2021 inclusive weekend (last weekend of August), this year again we propose inclusive activities opened to all, spiritual and convivial meetings in Marseille* :

This year again (September 2020 to May 2021) the CALEM Institute has made its training courses available, based on renowned scientific research, in particular for progressive imams in France,
Europe and beyond:

Now in France, after having been the founder of the first inclusive mosque in Europe, we have two progressive and inclusive Islamic structures (in Paris and Marseille), members of our international movement.

All our publications online here

The depth, social and cultural diversity of the Islamic message and community are a source of pride for Muslims. In this wealth, violence must not have space, because it damages individuals and blurs
the integrity of its community.

Individual experiences, poor links with local community, low level of knowledge about Islam and religious politization generate social grievances.

The main victims of this phenomenon and its consequences are young people, especially second generations. They often experience identity problems because find it difficult to make their European origins and Islamic belief coop.

However, being a European Muslim is possible and is today one of the numerous ways to belong to one of the widest and most fascinating communities of the world.

Online activism, institutional engagement and the commitment of non-profit organizations can do a lot in this framework. We invite all Muslims to participate in the positive destiny for our community, sharing and spreading its good values and stories.

Our community seeks action and this action is to stay on the right side. Stay with us, to demonstrate to the world, but above all to ourselves, the positive values of the Muslim community and to condemn violence.

The problem of Islamic radicalization of society is shared among all EU Member States and is mining both security, democratic values, and human rights. In this framework, OPEN intends to counter this phenomenon in a strategic bottom-up integrated approach by weakening the foundations of the enrolment process, i.e. Increasing resiliency of those at risk of radicalization and questioning certainties among radicalized youth.

The project aims to fight against the online radicalization process in the cities of Rome, Nice, Strasbourg, Berlin, and Elche (and related regions), through an online communication campaign that leverages the root and credibility of CSOs and the know-how of an institutional communication agency

Learn more about our campaign here

CALEM    Cabinet

We have been honored again this year, most often online, to facilitate the blessing of couples, in France and elsewhere. Learn more here

Roundtable (5 July 2021), facilitated byLudovic Thomas, with the participation of Olivier Maurel (Histoire de la lutte contre le sida – 2021), Mounir Baatour (founder of Shams – LGBT+ Tunisia) & Moussa Foune Fofana (president of RML – LGBT+ migrant-es of Marseille), Erika Nomeni & Paulo Hggns (Baham Arts).