In addition, the Muslim council rejected "incompetent" imams as "failed leaders" who "should leave their positions to others who would be more competent and more open because they have not been able to reassure Muslims or the French."
The council questioned why terrorists' parents and families had not countered extremism.
"What kind of things have they taught them? Have they been supplanted by the Internet and social media?"
The council said condemnation of the attacks has not been enough and warned Muslims against behaving like ostriches.
"We can't hide our heads under the sand repeating that malevolent phrase, 'it's not us, it's them!'"
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"Every imam, every religious leader, and every Muslim has to take their part in responsibility because these criminal attacks have been committed in the name of our religion," the council continued.
The council also said that Christians, Jews and atheists have "a hard time living in the Muslim world."
"Building a church or synagogue is an impossible dream to realize in those countries that even needs the intervention of the president of the republic!"
