Construction of Europe’s Biggest Mosque Highlights Turkey’s Expansionist Aims

National Catholic Register ^ | May 25, 2021 | Solène Tadié

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Construction of Europe’s Biggest Mosque (in France) Highlights Turkey’s Expansionist Aims

The project, undertaken by the radical Muslim organization Millî Gorüs in the French city of Strasbourg, headquarters of the Council of Europe, has generated concern up to the highest spheres of French politics.

Political and Symbolic Stakes

PARIS — A national scandal erupted in France after the municipal council of Strasbourg (located in the northeastern region of Alsace) voted March 22 to grant 2.5-million euros in funding to the construction of a mosque led by Islamist movement Millî Görüş.

By virtue of the 1918 Concordat, the Alsace-Moselle region is not subjected to the French law on the separation of churches and the state and therefore can help finance the construction of up to 10% of the total cost of places of worship. In 1999, the city of Strasbourg extended this legal provision to mosques (prior to this, the Concordat used to apply only to Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches, as well as the Jewish religion).   

It is on that basis that funding was requested by the Turkish political-religious organization for its Mosque Eyyub Sultan, a construction project initiated in 2017 that aims to become the largest mosque of Europe — its total area would be over 75,000 square feet, with minarets 118 feet high — at a total projected cost of 32 million euros (around $38 million). 

This decision of Strasbourg Mayor Jeanne Barseghian, a member of the left-wing party Europe Ecology-The Greens, triggered strong reactions among the political class up to the highest echelons of French government.

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The controversy was all the more divisive because the mosque’s location and size has a strong symbolic dimension. Indeed, the city of Strasbourg, headquarters of the Council of Europe and one of the three “capitals of Europe” with Brussels and Luxembourg, also houses the emblematic medieval Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg, one of the world’s tallest churches. The Ottoman architecture of the mosque, with its imposing minarets, would leave a lasting mark on the landscape of this high place of Christian Western culture.

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Target-rich environment...

Spring the reapers...

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FTA: A national scandal erupted in France after the municipal council of Strasbourg (located in the northeastern region of Alsace) voted March 22 to grant 2.5-million euros in funding to the construction of a mosque led by Islamist movement Millî Görüş.

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Horrible.

Prayers up.

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Pope John Paul II started this crap with allowing huge mosques to be built in Europe.

It’s something of a miracle that the mosque, the largest in Europe, stands in Rome at all. It took the blessing of Pope John Paul II for it to be built.

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Big-city France are dumps anyway, thanks to the scumuzzies!

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The CoE — The Clueless of EUrope

I’m sure the armories&ammo bunkers will meet all their construction standards.

There is dumb and then there is Stupid Dumb.

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The CoE — The Clueless of EUrope

I’m sure the armories&ammo bunkers will meet all their construction standards.

There is dumb and then there is Stupid Dumb.

[SunkenCiv]

...the municipal council of Strasbourg... voted March 22 to grant 2.5-million euros in funding to the construction of a mosque led by Islamist movement Millî Görüş. By virtue of the 1918 Concordat, the Alsace-Moselle region is not subjected to the French law on the separation of churches and the state and therefore can help finance the construction of up to 10% of the total cost of places of worship. In 1999, the city of Strasbourg extended this legal provision to mosques (prior to this, the Concordat used to apply only to Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches, as well as the Jewish religion)... This decision of Strasbourg Mayor Jeanne Barseghian, a member of the left-wing party Europe Ecology-The Greens, triggered strong reactions among the political class up to the highest echelons of French government.

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It would be so unfortunate if a fire somehow erupted, like the fires that mysteriously destroy churches all over France.