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(06-08-2018, 01:24 PM)hollodero Wrote: I figured... I still wanted to point out that we're still a democratic nation of laws :)
Over the last few years there have been multiple cases of lawsuits, threats, and vandalism being used in attempts to close mosques or prevent new ones from being built in the United States. I am most familiar with the one here in Mufreesboro Tennessee, but there have been others across the country.
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A very interesting development. I'd be very interested to see what our resident apologist has to say about it.
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I don't know if anyone's interested, but some new details have emerged during the weekend. It obviously was a guy who's official title I cannot translate, but who casually spoken is the boss of Austria's islamic community, that filed the charge against six of the seven mosques and the organization that run it. More or less in a solo effort, of course citing reasons that are not that easy to proof.
He's Turkish and close to Erdogan's people, while the six mosques/the organization behind it were Arabic. So obvioulsy we have an innerislamic conflict at our hands, with the government willingly take up any (again, possibly questionable) complaints to close down mosques. While unwittingly (which is the best word to describe our government to begin with) helping Erdogan's fraction gaining way more influence over the islamic community, which I feel very uneasy about.
Same guy that filed charges of course publicly cried false tears and attacked the decision. What a weasel.
So, if you want to celebrate the decision because of terror prevention or some similar reason, you might reconsider a bit. It's intrigue. And some very one-dimensional government officials willingly jumping at the opportunity. I don't think that's too good.