Why is the whole of Europe 'up in arms' against the building of Mosques in their towns and cities?

Answer 1

Yahoo! News, 6/8/07...Violent clashes in Berlin over siting of proposed mosque, Court cases in Marseille, Switzerland about to ban minarets on meg-mosque, protests in Cologne, proposals to build mega mosque overshadowing 2012 London Olympic site. One of their mullah preachers,says 'We just want to feel at home'!!! We all know the answer to that, don't we?????????????

Answer 2

Can't speak for all of Europe but as a Welsh Brit I'd say that its partly to do with a fear of our own culture being eroded in the face of a large scale muslim population which isn't really happy to integrate, and partly to do with the fact that some of these mosques are being used as terrorist recruiting centres.

EDIT: "In France and Great Britain they are, for the most part, socially marginalized in ghetto-like public housing, with little chance for gainful employment or higher education. "

OMG what he hell are you on! You *never* find Pakistanis in Social Housing - they are too wealthy to need it (and they should be so bloody lucky - there are homeless British families who can't get Social Housng!). The "Ghetto like Social Housing" you talk about (Housing Estates) are populated by WHITE Britons (ie mostly "Chavs" or what you would call "Trailer Trash" in the States).

Pakistanis are some of the RICHEST people in the UK, they all own businesses, hold some of the highest paid jobs around, drive big expensive sports cars and own half the rental property! You seriously are smoking something to talk such crap - have you ever even been the UK? You are totally totally wrong!!! What utter crap! Oh and they ALL go to University - more so than the white Britons! I have never heard such inaccurate shite in my life!

Answer 3

In my view Islam as it stands is not compatible with western society, and I don't feel that it's appropriate for monolithic Islamic symbols such as the proposed Super Mosque in East London to be errected all the while Muslims living here harbour anti-western sentiments, and the same applies to the rest of Europe. I've no issues with the practice of Islam in my country, but it's becoming an imposition. Which ever Western land they choose to live, they should expect to live by that countries law, irrespective of it's non-compatibility with their faith.

Answer 4

What you on about here? As an Irish person there are no Mosques here in Ireland. You must be talking about the UK. So stop generalizing about Europe

Answer 5

I'm not up in arms about it - although I would like to see what would happen if we lived elsewhere and demanded a christian church and school be built.......not likely is it?

I think the money used to build these mosques would be better put to use in education or the nhs.

Answer 6

Well consider that there is/was a mosque in Birmingham named after Sadam Hussein. Can you imagine Iran allowing
the buliding of the George W Bush synagogue ???

Answer 7

Because Muslims in Europe are the "children of the colonies". Their native or ancestral lands were once colonies of those European powers. In France and Great Britain they are, for the most part, socially marginalized in ghetto-like public housing, with little chance for gainful employment or higher education. In Great Britain it has been going on for a longer time, dating back to the 1960s when the practice of "Paki bashing" (assaults on Pakistani Muslims) was a favored one with English street gangs.
It's something which has come about to bite Europe on its bottom. Loose asylum laws allowed hundreds of thousands to enter western Europe from the lands to the east and those in the Islamic Crescent, stretching from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. Now, the racial and ethnic face of Europe is turning brown. Even in Rotterdam, Muslims constitute almost a majority of the current population. In Belgium, immigrants from east of the German-Czech border are asked if they have ever dealt drugs or stolen a car. Two questions not asked of Christian or Jewish immigrants. It has also given rise to new political parties with a decidedly anti-immigrant platform. From Norway southward through France and eastward into Austria.
I find it to be quite ironic. NATO's first mission was to march into the Balkans and stop those nasty Serbs from killing all of those Muslims in the former parts of the Yugoslav Federation. Even though it was the Serbs who did battle against the invading Muslim army from Turkey at the Battle of Kosovo Polye outside of Pristina over five hundred years ago. Now the rest of Europe feels as beseiged as the modern-day Serbs felt in a sea of Muslim Albanians.

Answer 8

I don't know if that is true or not, may I ask however why in the Middle East especially in Palestine christian churches burned down, like I said more so Palestine but all over the Middle East and Pakistan

Answer 9

Because the 'indigenous' populations are sick of being 2nd class citizens to people who come to live in their countries and take the associated freedoms that are granted to them whilst insisting that they perpetuate their own culture in someone else's land! And this is often felt to be at the expense of what is thought as of the dominant national culture (hard to define, I know).
You can't get planning permission to build an extension on your house if it is 1mm out of place. Ask to build an ornate mosque with minarets and gold domes that wouldn't look out of place in downtown Islamabad but looks appalling in Bradford - no problem! In fact don't bother asking because nobody will stop you....

Answer 10

imho, people are "up in arms" against mosque building, because a mosque would mean that there was a sizable muslim population in the area. such a population could be problematic, especially to country with a liberal social structure, with civil rights built into their legal system, and with a sense of religious tolerance in place. look at the netherlands. look at scandinavia. look at germany, italy, france, and the united kingdom. look at australia.

all those places have had significant muslim immigration, and all of them have had major social problems attendant upon that muslim population.
there are 'honor killings' which have become more widespread in these areas. there have been disturbingly many cases of female genital mutilation occuring in the immigrant muslim population. there have been many rapes of non-muslim citizens, by muslim males, who claim they have the right to abuse women in this way, since the women aren't muslims and aren't dressed according to the standards the muslims impose upon themselves, and want to impose upon the rest of the world.

perhaps, if there weren't such a correlation between the mosque-goers (many of whom are the more radical islamists) and the sort of horrifying behavior mentioned, there would be less resistance to the building of more, and larger mosques, in general