(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 29, 2020, Mohammed Moussaoui, President of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) gives a speech during a ceremony in honour of Muslim soldiers who took part in the first world war, at the WW1 memorial in Douaumont, northeastern France. - Muslims are "not persecuted" in France, the French Council of the Muslim Faith said on October 26, 2020, as a row over radical Islam and freedom of speech pits Muslim nations against Paris. "France is a big country, Muslim citizens are not persecuted, they freely construct their mosques and the freely practise their religion," said the council, which acts as an official go-between for the state and observant Muslims. (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP)