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Italian draft law to block mosque building
By: Anjum Kermani
ROME, Italy: A far-right Italian party is planning to table a draft
law that would effectively block the construction of mosques in the
southern European country, according to a report on Thursday.
The Northern League will present the parliament next week with a bill
that requires regional approval and a local referendum for building
mosques.
It would also mandate that mosques should have no minaret or
loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer.
The motion demands that mosques will have to be at least one kilometer
away from any nearby church and that sermons be delivered in Italian,
not Arabic.
The Northern League has four ministers in the government of Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi, including the interior ministry.
The motion is only supported by the small, ultra-Catholic UDC party
with no immediate support from Berlusconi's Forza Italia party or from
the ex-Fascist National Alliance.
Milan Friday Prayer Dilemma Italy has a Muslim population of some 1.2
million, including 20,000 reverts, according to unofficial estimates.
Muslims are already having hard time getting approval for mosque
building before the new bill.
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