In a bid to curb a potentially radicalizing foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering a new “mosque tax,” intended to make Muslim communities self-reliant and under more control. Many German mosques are sponsored and are de-facto controlled from abroad, leaving local authorities in the dark about what happens inside.
Implementing a tax is no real solution to counter the foreign funding problem. Such influence will continue to expand despite such a tax, because of the determination of foreign states to spread dawah in order to Islamize the West the West and promote Islam globally.
Turkey is one of the largest sources of foreign funding for mosques in Germany, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan officially opening a “mega-mosque” in Cologne at the end of September which was largely funded by the Turkish government.
What’s needed is a ban on foreign-funded mosques and mosques that preach jihad. Last year, Switzerland banned foreign-funded mosques. Mosques should also be required to use local languages instead of Arabic. Above all, however, sermons must be monitored to ensure that there is no preaching of sedition or subversion.
“Germany mulls ‘Mosque tax’ to help distract Muslims from ‘foreign influence,’” RT, December 26, 2018:
In a bid to curb a potentially radicalizing foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering a new “mosque tax,” intended to make Muslim communities self-reliant and under more control.
Many German mosques are sponsored and are de-facto controlled from abroad, leaving local authorities in the dark about what happens inside. Now, several MPs have come up with an idea that they call a “solution” for a problem that has become increasingly unnerving for Berlin in recent years.
The MPs’ proposal involves the introduction of a special tax to be paid by all practicing Muslims in Germany, which would then be redistributed by the state among all officially registered Islamic religious institutions. A similar tax already exists in Germany and some other European countries for Catholic and Evangelical Christians.
The initiative is aimed at helping “Islam in Germany free itself from the influence of foreign states and get a stronger domestic orientation,” Thorsten Frei, the deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) faction in the German Parliament, said, calling the proposed tax “an important step in that direction.”
Frei’s idea immediately received support from other members of the ruling Grand Coalition. “Independent financing” would make the communities congregating in mosques in Germany more “transparent,”….