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France Shuts Down Mosques, Bans Foreign Funders
Jewish Press ^ | August 16th, 2016 | Hana Levi Julian

Posted on 08/17/2016 4:55:23 AM PDT by SJackson

France has shut down at least 20 mosques and now has banned foreign funding of the Islamic houses of worship as well.

At least 20 of the 120 Salafi mosques in the country have been shut down in France since December 2015.

But in the wake of a third radical Islamist terror attack, last month Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for a ban on foreign funding on Islamic mosques altogether. Nor would Valls say how long that ban would last.

A few days later, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve met with Muslim leaders about the ban, and explained it was time to put an end to incitement once and for all.

Speaking with reporters after the meeting, Cazeneuve was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “There is no place in France for those who call for and incite hatred in prayer halls or in mosques.”

French Muslims are deeply concerned that government officials will tag their community as being friendly to terrorists. Marwan Muhammad, the director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, told The Post, “It gives the idea that mosques have something to do with terrorism.”

All told, at present there are more than two thousand mosques in France.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foreignfundedmosques; france; francemosques; frenchmuslims; mosques
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1 posted on 08/17/2016 4:55:23 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 08/17/2016 4:55:47 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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It’s a start.


3 posted on 08/17/2016 4:57:29 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SJackson

Yet wants citizens to take in migrants into their homes.


4 posted on 08/17/2016 4:58:09 AM PDT by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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-—Marwan Muhammad, the director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, told The Post, “It gives the idea that mosques have something to do with terrorism.”-—

Gee...why would anyone think that?


5 posted on 08/17/2016 4:59:18 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Marwan Muhammad, the director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, told The Post, “It gives the idea that mosques have something to do with terrorism.”


6 posted on 08/17/2016 5:03:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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In 2002 a book on "the American Mosque" appeared.[5]

The overall number of mosques in the United States quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, an increase of 74% ( well before Obama started importing them in droves).

The 9/11-triumphant "Ground Zero mosque", a planned mosque in lower Manhattan, was the subject of controversy from 2010 on. In September 2011, a temporary 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) Islamic center opened in renovated space at the site,[7] and current plans are for a museum to be built, instead of a mosque.

A 2011 study, The American Mosque 2011, sponsored by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research (Hartford Seminary), the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, as well as the nation's largest Islamic civic and religious groups, including the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, found that the U.S. States with the most mosques were New York (257), California (246) and Texas (166).[6]

Through 2014, a building boom for mosques has been going on.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_the_United_States

7 posted on 08/17/2016 5:05:53 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

France is going after the imams and the financing. This is when thing get really dicey. They are the root cause of the violence. The imams will lose money and power. This mafia like religion will fight back. Because Imams Money Matters. France is fighting a crime family that they invited in and promoted.


8 posted on 08/17/2016 5:08:29 AM PDT by magua
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It gives the idea that mosques have something to do with terrorism.

That very idea is self evident in the very words and deeds of your followers.

9 posted on 08/17/2016 5:35:18 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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French Muslims are deeply concerned that government officials will tag their community as being friendly to terrorists. Marwan Muhammad, the director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, told The Post, “It gives the idea that mosques have something to do with terrorism.”

Gee, I wonder why?

10 posted on 08/17/2016 5:36:40 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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It has to be 20 a day until they are all gone.


11 posted on 08/17/2016 5:54:23 AM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: SJackson

The Marine Le Pen Effect.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 5:57:16 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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“Marwan Muhammad, the director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, told The Post, ‘It gives the idea that mosques have something to do with terrorism.’”

Marwan, stop it, you’re killing me, you jokester.


13 posted on 08/17/2016 6:01:27 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SJackson

That’s racist. Islam is our friend and Sharia law is better than the constitution.


14 posted on 08/17/2016 6:19:16 AM PDT by cp124 (Trade, Immigration, Intervention)
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To: SJackson

I suspect that this is just a shakedown.

The foreign money will continue as long as the state gets a piece.


15 posted on 08/17/2016 6:35:47 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: SJackson

Salafists are, by definition, violent and virulent.


16 posted on 08/17/2016 6:39:55 AM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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We should do the same here. Any money supporting mosques in America comes from the Saudi Wahhabi pigs and their dependent oil states in the gulf. Now that they can’t shovel that money to France, they will have more to pour into America and poison our society.


17 posted on 08/17/2016 6:40:40 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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France has shut down at least 20 mosques and now has banned foreign funding of the Islamic houses of worship as well.

It may be decades before we in the US show even as much realism about Islamic radicalism as France is now forced to show.
18 posted on 08/17/2016 7:14:18 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SJackson

Ask any moslem, and they will tell you: “Islam isn’t merely another “religion”. It is a way of life, a political system, a holistic gestalt and world view that covers lifestyle, politics, clothing, family life, marriage, even personal hygiene. There is NO “separation of church and state”, no “freedom of religion” and no “choice”. In the moslem worldview, Islamic countries are called “Dar al Islam’ (House of Peace) and non-islamic countries are called “Dar al Hab” (House of War). They consider ALL moslems to be part of the “Ummah” (The Moslem World), and thus NOT part of the country in which they live. This is not bigoted talk...this is their belief system. Moslems who DON’T believe these things are considered apostate or backslidden.

Therefore, governments should NOT use the measuring rod of “Religion” in governing those among them who are moslem. It is not a racial thing, nor a religious thing. It is a POLITICAL thing, much like nazism and communism, both of which demand complete allegiance to the group, at the expense of all other loyalties.

Islam’s leaders have been quite clear about the “disconnect” between their system and ours, between the koran and the Constitution, between the Western Worldview and the ummah. They have come right out and stated their goals, and they are NOT ours.

Why don’t we BELIEVE them????

(All spelling and capitalization “errors” are intentional)


19 posted on 08/17/2016 7:35:17 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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You Tube, Israeli Airstrike,Mosque, Secondary Explosions
20 posted on 08/17/2016 7:35:57 AM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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