Germany debates mosque tax to curb foreign funding

Support is growing in Germany for a mosque tax to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or radical foreign funding sources, a media report said on Sunday.

Concern has grown in Germany about the influence of foreign funding sources on mosques for the country’s estimated 5-million Muslims, who hail mostly from Turkey and Arab countries. In other cases, some mosques have come under police scrutiny or been closed for preaching radical and militant Islamist ideas.

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