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Originally Posted by gualbert
The issue is not about building mosques.
It's about minarets, which are 30m towers, where some dude sings very loud so that everyone knows it's time to go to the mosque and praise Allah.
These things are not welcome in atheist/christian Europe.
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i live next to a cathedral. it rings bells every fifteen minutes. after two days you just don't notie it anymore.
there are a lot of mosques in my city, but they are not built like the ones in islamic countries, they are housed in regular buildings on regular streets. no minarets.
some time ago there were some cries from an extreme right party about the plan to assign churches that were out of use (meaning rather modern chruches with no significant historic value) to muslim communities who could turn them into mosques. these politicians started sprading poorly photoshopped pictures of the antwerp cathedral (a famous monument) with a pinaret on it. ridiculous of course, these plans were for churches built in the seventies, churches that weren't used at all anymore since church visits have dropped so much over the years. if people go to church, they will go to a nice old one.