H/T Magic Martin
Athens Mosque Will Cost Greece $1.1M
Muslims in Athens in an basement praying room
It will cost the cash-strapped Greek government, which is cutting pay, raising taxes and slashed pensions for workers, pensioners and the poor, some 846,000 euros, about $1.1 million, to build an official mosque in Athens for the city’s Muslim population.
The design, however, is slated to have a modern look and not that of Ottoman mosques with minarets, the newspaper Ta Nea reported, adding that all that’s needed for the project to begin for the Transportation Ministry to begin the bidding procedures for construction.
The government agreed in September of 2012 to go ahead with the plans after an offer from the Turkish government to pay for it was rejected by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and opposed by the Muslim community which wanted the Greek state to undertake it.
Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus said he was vehemently opposed to having Greece build a mosque who said it should be declared unconstitutional and anti-Greek. The idea of a mosque is still touchy in Greece, which suffered under 400 years of Ottoman occupation when churches were prohibited and as the Turkish government has refused to re-open the closed Halki Seminary.
Correction: it’ll cost the autochthon European taxpayer, the very one who built the continent that is now being looted by these hordes of utterly useless parasites, 1.1 million $.
This will cause a massive increase in the membership of Golden Dawn.
If I was a member of Golden Dawn or supported them, I would make sure everyone knew about this grotesque abuse of government funds. The US also spends billions world-wide on building and restoring mosques. A program George Bush started actually and one which has to violate the first amendment.
Greece which had suffered through many centuries of barbaric Ottoman occupation should say ‘hell no’!
The Greek people probably are saying no, but as in the rest of Europe and the US the self proclaimed elite think they know best and ignore what we say.