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BELGIUM: Giving up control of Brussels mosque, Saudi Arabia sends a signal
By admin_HRWF
On February 15, 2018
By Alissa de Carbonnel, Stephen Kalin
Reuters (12.02.2018) – http://reut.rs/2o8O0hJ (http://reut.rs/2o8O0hJ) – Saudi Arabia has agreed to give up control of Belgium’s largest mosque in a sign that it is trying to shed its reputation as a global exporter of an ultra-conservative brand of Islam.
Belgium leased the Grand Mosque to Riyadh in 1969, giving Saudi-backed imams access to a growing Muslim immigrant community in return for cheaper oil for its industry.
But it now wants to cut Riyadh’s links with the mosque, near the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels, over concerns that what it preaches breeds radicalism.
The mosque’s leaders deny it espouses violence, but European governments have grown more wary since Islamist attacks that were planned in Brussels killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 and 32 in the Belgian capital in 2016.
Continued at: http://hrwf.eu/belgium-giving-up-control-of-brussels-mosque-saudi-arabia-sends-a-signal/ (http://hrwf.eu/belgium-giving-up-control-of-brussels-mosque-saudi-arabia-sends-a-signal/)
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honest, they are gonna stop trying to establish the Caliphate.
Really