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| Danish far-right launches anti-mosque campaign |
| 2009-09-10 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The extreme-right Danish People's Party, a key government ally, launched a media campaign Wednesday against the building of mosques, after Copenhagen city council approved the country's first. Full page advertisements published in several daily papers claimed that part of the funds for the new mosque would come from "the terror regime in Iran", while a second mosque planned for the capital would be financed by Saudi Arabia. The ads also contained a picture of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul with a photo montage of two swords on the dome. The party, whose votes in parliament are essential for the survival of the center-right government, linked its campaign to the municipal elections on November 17. The new Copenhagen mosque, approved by the city council late last month, will be built by the city's Shiite Muslim community on the site of a former factory. A 24-metre high blue dome will cover the 2,000-square-metre place of worship flanked by two 32-metre-high minarets in northwest Copenhagen. But no calls to prayer will blare from the towers in order not to disturb the surrounding working-class neighborhood. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Why not negotiate some reciprocity? If Saudi Arabia wants to finance a mosque in Copenhagen they should in turn allow a church to be built in their country. (Fat chance of that though.) |
| Posted by: Don Vito Crolutle2068 2009-09-10 16:06 |