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France's first female imam Kahina Bahloul leads a friday prayer in a rented venue of the 11th arrondissement of Paris on February 21, 2020.

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Video. Meet France's first female imam who is on a mission to modernise Islam

Updated: 22/04/2021 - 21:26 GMT+2

"The legal schools of Islam today, or the whole normative part of the Muslim religion, emanates from medieval thought," Kahina Bahloul told Euronews. "That is no longer possible."

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