Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed [SEP] country of citizenship
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (born 1977) is a French-Algerian imam. An openly gay Muslim, Zahed is the founder of the first European inclusive mosque, in Paris, France, with the goal of accommodating the LGBT and feminist Muslim communities. Zahed has been reported to be the first French Muslim man to be civilly married with another man, in South Africa.
Biography.
Born Mohamed Lotfi Zahed in Algiers, Algeria, in 1977, he arrived in France a year later with
' Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed. The opening has been condemned by the Grand Mosque of Paris.
In December 2013, the group "Les Femmes dans la Mosquée" (Women in the Mosque) demanded from the administration the right to pray in the same room as men, having been excluded from it and relegated to the entrance foyer. For the spokesperson of the movement Hanane Karimi, “The previous policy reflects the organization of the Muslim community along certain conventions today, that women have no place there; they have become