Criminal in Greece: Muslim with the Quran

Source: Proto Thema

 A member of a gang of burglars and stolen goods receiver was finally proven to be a young Syrian that had accused a police officer to rip his Quran an step on it last May. There were serious incidents as a result of this accusation in the center of Athens by Muslims and a serious turbulence from the police.  

The 27year old Hasan Ramsy was convicted a few days ago to 10 months imprisonment because he was selling stolen goods. The Quran that he was holding however orders clearly, “Do not steal”…

 

After serious information, there was a police swoop in the underground apartment that Hamzy was living with another Syrian and they bumped into a …treasure. Jewels, watches, mobile phones, electronic devices and other valuable objects were found, that were stolen by a gang of burglars from houses and apartments in the north suburbs of Athens.

During the examination, the 27 Syrian denied that he was in the gang but he claimed that he bought the goods by an unknown man without knowing they were stolen.

His allegation did not convince the court that gave him 10 months imprisonment with a three year parole period, for “accepting and supplying products of crime” while the investigations of the police are continuing to track the gang of burglars.

 

He left at night…

After the end of the trial, Hamzy was left free and he returned to his country as they stated at “Thema” his co-patriots from the Aghios Panteleimonas area, but also the president of the Muslim Association of Greece, Mr. Naim Elghandour, has no better opinion for the 27year old man. “I know that he wanted to leave from Greece. He contacted me and said that he wants to return back to Syria. Generally he was weird. He was hanging around in strange neighborhoods and he was arrested for forged papers. I told him to be careful. He asked me for money to leave Greece but I found out later that he wanted to take advantage of me,” Mr. Elghandour stated.

 

He attempted to legalize himself with forged documents

Hasan Hamzy abandoned Greece just as he came. Illegally. He had stated on a TV show that he came illegally to Samos from Turkey in 2002 and after that he came to Athens. In 2003 he applied for his documents to become legal, when government Simitis had those measures, but stating that he was Iraqi by the name Mohammed Attiq and not Syrian. Last May, a policeman that was participating at an operation-broom at Aghios Panteleimonas at the center of Athens stopped Hamzy to check his papers. According to what the young man stated, the policeman ripped pages from the Quran that he had on him and then he stepped on it swearing.

As a result, there was a reaction by a large Muslim immigrant population that lives in Athens and for two days of serious incidents that were provoked from fanatics who damaged vehicles and stores, and there were also injuries. The Muslim Association of Greece and their president Naim Elghandour condemned those incidents then while they applied a law suit against the policeman who offended the holy book of millions of people worldwide.

Mr. Elghandour underlines that some people deliberately attempted to make Hamzy a hero. “Then at the incidents they attempted to make him a hero but the Muslim Association did not allow that to happen. The incidents were incited and we did not allow Athens to burn once again. What we did and proved that we care for this country, is take a law suit against any responsible person, to put responsibility –if there are to the policeman who ripped the Quran. We are waiting the case to go to trial,” he states.

 

Group urges Muslims to avoid body scans

Source:  CBC.ca

 

An Islamic group is urging Muslim travellers to choose to be patted down by airport security rather than go through airport body scanners, a practice that it says violate religious and privacy rights.

The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) said the scanners, which produce a three-dimensional outline of a person’s naked body, are “against the teachings of Islam, natural law and all religions and cultures that stand for decency and modesty.”

“It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,” the group said in a statement last week.

“The Qur’an has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts. Human beings are urged to be modest in their dress,” the group said.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations also issued a statement of support of the FCNA’s recommendation.

The United States began using the scanners capable of detecting items hidden underneath clothing at airports as part of new security protocols put in place in the wake of the failed bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day.

 

Canada installing scanners

Halifax imam Dr. Jamal Badawi, one of 10 Muslim scholars on the council who made the religious ruling, said the only exception to the rules of modesty are medical necessity or another emergency.

“It has to be a clear and compelling case and only to the extent that it is absolutely needed,” said Badawi. “And that doesn’t seem to apply to these scanning machines.”

Canada is also in the process of installing 44 scanners to be used on U.S.-bound passengers selected for secondary screening at Canadian airports.

The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority has said the scanners would protect the privacy of the passenger, and that the officer viewing the image would do so in a separate room and never see the actual traveller.

Only people singled out for extra screening would be scanned, and they would have the option of getting a physical search instead, according to authorities on both sides of the border.

The Fiqh council, which in 2005 issued an Islamic legal ruling, or fatwa, against terrorism and religious extremism, said it appreciated the pat-down search option and recommended Muslims choose this option.

 

U.S. puts countries on watch list

Canada has not adopted the U.S. approach of requiring additional screening for anyone flying into the U.S. who is a citizen of or is travelling from any of the 14 countries deemed to be state supporters of terrorism or “of interest” to the U.S.

Most of the countries listed are predominantly Muslim, and civil liberties groups say the policy of targeting travellers from specific countries opens the door to discriminatory racial profiling.

Transport Minister John Baird has said that “100 per cent” of Canadian travellers bound for the United States could be subjected to secondary screening.

The focus on security measures stems from the failed attempt by a Nigerian man to set off a bomb on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, is accused of trying to ignite the bomb on the Northwest Airlines flight. Officials said he has told U.S. investigators he received training and instructions from al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen.

Elena, the Muslim, the mosque and cemetery

Source:  Protagon.gr

© Translation: Muslim Association of Greece

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I have never met Elena in person. We have been talking on the phone for the past two months. She has a bright smile, nice voice and is very polite. She is 23 years old studying Business in England. The only thing I knew about her is that she was wearing hijab. She started learning about Islam from stubbornness. She wanted to prove to her colleagues at university that they were wrong.  She studied the Quran quickly to gain more arguments against it, but that made her change her own beliefs and religion.

The last emails we exchanged were regarding the French ban of religion symbols. Elena wanted to point out two things regarding that, the cemeteries and the worship places. I am copying what she wrote to me.

“Greece is the only European country that does not have a cemetery and a mosque.  I am a Greek citizen and I pay tax as every other citizen in the country, I obey its laws, I defend its rights when they are correct. What hurts me is the behaviour of the reliable people regarding that matter. What we are asking for is to praise God in its place, to marry and die next to our families as every other human being on that planet.”

 ”The Muslims in Greece are a minority but not only in Thrace, the northern part of Greece, but also in Athens where they are almost 700.000 Muslims working and living. But except the everyday problems they have to deal with, they also have to consider what will happen with their bodies when they will die. And this is because in the European Athens today there is no cemetery, a basic need for a human being and especially a Muslim. And this is because in the Islamic tradition the body must be buried no more than 24 hours after death and under some conditions. Something that Muslims in Athens today cannot even think or dream of. Nowadays the bodies are sent to Thrace or to the country of origin, if that is possible.  What happens though with the many Greek Muslims or with the second generation children that do not know any other country except Greece? Don’t they have that ‘luxury’ or they are excluded from the life circle.”

Revealing the real purpose of fasting

I used to find it odd – if not heretic – to starve yourself from sunrise to sunset.  Anything that went against fasting in the Greek Orthodox way was indeed heretic, or so I thought. 

The first time I heard Muslims fast in a different way, my stomach churned and I thought, man you guys are completely off the mark.  You need to be saved!

At that point, I’d never researched the proofs for fasting in the Bible or the Quran, but it was my pride that would never let a thought into my brain that said that they might have proof for what they were saying while I have absolutely none – or at least knew of none. 

And frankly, I didn’t care.  Fasting was one of the zillion rituals of the Greek Orthodox faith that you ‘just believed in’  and didn’t question.

The weirdest thing to me was that Muslims would not only fast from food but actually from ‘bad’ things like drinking, going to bars or dating.  Now, that for me was completely illogical !  What does food have to do with having fun?

It was normal for all of us Greek Orthodox to fast before Easter and go out and have fun at the exact same time – without feeling an inch of guilt.

Once you find out why you are supposed to fast in the first place (which, as a Christian I never really did), then you’ll understand that it’s not about the food.

Muslims believe that God revealed to mankind to fast because through self-restraint, you can become pious.

“O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious).  (Quran 2:183)

You might be asking, What does piety have anything to do with it?  I was confused at the beginning too but when I started fasting – starving myself from dawn to dusk actually – I realized that it was a true sacrifice.  

It’s like having a close friend that you love more than you love yourself.  You give up something that you love the most to make her happy.  It’s not like you are forced to do this.  You choose this because you love her.  That’s when your relationship has gone to a new level – because she’s seen the proof that you put her before yourself. 

That’s in a way, the purpose of fasting.  When you choose to give up something that is permissible, like food, you realize that you want to because you love God more than yourself.  And you want to show Him that love.  That’s the journey of piety.

So, really, for anyone who is fasting, whether Muslim, Christian or other, fasting was prescribed for all of us as the verse says.  Only when you know what the purpose of fasting is can you really taste the journey of love for God.

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  photo credit: opusbloo

Οι Μιναρέδες και ένας Ελβετός πολιτικός που ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ

Διαχωρίζοντας το μύθο από την πραγματικότητα

Source:  Tikkun Daily

© Translation Muslim Association of Greece

Read in English

[Το άρθρο αναδημοσιεύεται στο Αμερικανικό Μουσουλμανικό Ειδησεογραφικό ισότοπο Illume Magazine]

 

Το πρόσφατο ζήτημα της απαγόρευσης της ανέγερσης μιναρέδων στην Ελβετία περιέχει μία πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα παράπλευρη πτυχή. Ένα μέλος του πολιτικού κόμματος που πίεζε για την απαγόρευση των μιναρέδων ανακοίνωσε ότι ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ. Έξω από την Ελβετία τα κυρίαρχα ΜΜΕ το αγνόησαν.

Οι Μουσουλμάνοι σε όλο τον κόσμο ωστόσο άρπαξαν την είδηση, την κυκλοφόρησαν σε μπλόγκς και στο Facebook. Κατά τη διάρκεια όμως η είδηση διαστρεβλώθηκε με περίεργο τρόπο και έτσι προκάλεσε σύγχυση. Στο μεταξύ τουλάχιστο ένα Αντι-Μουσουλμανικό ιστολόγιο ανέβασε την είδηση. Κοιτώντας τα σχόλια φαίνεται ότι κάποιοι ενάντιοι της Μουσουλμανικής μετανάστευσης θέλουν να αντικρούσουν το γεγονός της αλλαγής θρησκεύματος του. Παρόλα αυτά είναι εξακριβωμένο γεγονός ότι ένας Ελβετός βουλευτής του Ελβετικού Λαϊκού κόμματος- του βασικού υποστηρικτή της απαγόρευσης των μιναρέδων – ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ

Ο Daniel Streich, Ο οποίος κατέχει εκλεγμένη επίσημη θέση ήταν για πολλά χρόνια μέλος του Ελβετικού Λαϊκού Κόμματος, ανακοίνωσε την παραίτηση του από το κόμμα. Υπήρξε αφοσιωμένος θρησκευόμενος Χριστιανός. Ωστόσο εδώ και δύο χρόνια ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ. Κράτησε την αλλαγή του μυστική. Η πρόσφατη καμπάνια του Ελβετικού Λαϊκού κόμματος ενάντια στους μιναρέδες όμως ήταν πέρα από τις δυνάμεις του Streich. Δημοσιοποίησε το θρήσκευμά του και αποκήρυξε την καμπάνια αποκαλώντας την «κυνήγι μαγισσών».

Η είδηση βασισμένη σε μία αναφορά των Ελβετικών μέσων πρωτοεμφανίστηκε στην Αγγλική γλώσσα στο Tikkun Daily στις 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2009 με άμεση αναμετάδοση στο Op-Ed News. Αφού η ιστορία βγήκε κυκλοφόρησε σε μπλόγκς και ειδησεογραφικές σελίδες. Στις 30 Ιανουαρίου 2010 η Πακιστανική εφημερίδα The Nation τη δημοσίευσε στη σελίδα του διανθισμένο. Απεικόνιζε τον Streich ως πολύ μεγάλο, σπουδαίο Ελβετό πολιτικό που εξειδικευόταν στις εκστρατείες εναντίον των Μουσουλμάνων και των μιναρέδων! Αφού επιδόθηκε σε ακούραστη αντι-ισλαμική προπαγάνδα ξαφνικά ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ και τώρα αποκηρύσσει τις κακές του πρακτικές.

«Ο διάσημος Ελβετός πολιτικός Daniel Streich, γνωστός για την εκστρατεία του κατά των μιναρέδων στα τζαμιά, ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ. Μέλος του Ελβετικού Λαϊκού κόμματος και πασίγνωστος πολιτικός ο Daniel Streich ήταν ο πρώτος άνδρας που ξεκίνησε τη δράση για την απαγόρευση των μιναρέδων των τζαμιών της Ελβετίας. Η αποκάλυψη για το πέρασμα του στο Ισλάμ δημιούργησε θύελλα στην πολιτική ζωή της Ελβετίας επιπλέον προκάλεσε ρίγη σε όσους υποστήριξαν την απαγόρευση ανέγερσης μιναρέδων. Ο Streich προπαγάνδισε την αντι-Ισλαμική του δράση σε όλη τη χώρα σπέρνοντας μίσος και αγανάκτηση για το Ισλάμ στο λαό και άνοιξε δρόμο για δημοψήφισμα ενάντια στους μιναρέδες των τζαμιών. Όμως τώρα ο Streich έγινε στρατιώτης του Ισλάμ. Οι αντι-Ισλαμικές του θέσεις τον έφεραν τελικά τόσο κοντά στη θρησκεία ώστε την ασπάστηκε. Ντρέπεται για τις πράξεις του και επιθυμεί να οικοδομήσει το ωραιότερο τέμενος της Ευρώπης στην Ελβετία. (πλήρες κείμενο στα αγγλικά).»

Αυτό είναι εντελώς ανυπόστατο. Ο Streich τύγχανε νε ανήκει σε ένα πολιτικό κόμμα που είχε ευρεία πολιτική πλατφόρμα, και διαπραγματευόταν πολύ περισσότερα από «τους μιναρέδες των τζαμιών». Ο Streich δεν απέκτησε τη φήμη του βασιζόμενος στην Ισλαμοφοβία. Και δεν υπάρχει απόδειξη ότι σχεδιάζει να κατασκευάσει ένα τζαμί, ωραίο ή άσχημο.

Ξεκαθαρίζοντας τις στρεβλώσεις αυτό που απομένει είναι τρία σημαντικά γεγονότα. Πρώτον, παρόλο που τα αντι-Ισλαμικα αισθήματα είναι ισχυρότερα στη Δεξιά, οι συντηρητικοί μπορεί να γίνουν ενάντιοι της Ισλαμοφοβίας. Δεύτερον, οι Δυτικοί νέοι Μουσουλμάνοι προέρχονται από όλο το πολιτικό φάσμα όχι μόνο την Αριστερά. Τρίτον, ένας πολιτικός είχε την τόλμη να αφήσει το πολιτικό του κόμμα, βάζοντας σε μεγάλο κίνδυνο την πολιτική και κοινωνική του υποστήριξη, χάριν της συνειδήσεώς του.

Η Εντύπωση ότι ένας συντηρητικός Χριστιανός πολιτικός θα μπορούσε να γίνει Μουσουλμάνος και να αποκηρύξει αντι-Ισλαμικές εκστρατείες δημιουργεί ενοχλήσεις στους Ισλαμοφοβικούς. Για παράδειγμα ένα φόρουμ στην αντι-Ισλαμική σελίδα FaithFreedom.com ξεκίνησε να συζητά το ζήτημα. Κάποιοι από τους σχολιαστές το απέρριψαν καθώς η ιδέα ότι ήταν ένας σταυροφόρος κατά των μιναρέδων δεν ευσταθούσε αφού ασπάστηκε το Ισλάμ πριν από δύο χρόνια.

ΑΝ κανείς έχει αμφιβολία μπορεί να ανατρέξει στις πηγές από τα Ελβετικά ΜΜΕ:

http://www.20min.ch/news/schweiz/story/27286120

http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/sicherheits-risiko-fuer-unsere-armee-134102

Greece: the Church, the Mosque and the lost vote

Source:  Enet.gr

By Thomas Tsatsis

© Translated by the Muslim Association of Greece

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Ten years ago, when the issue of the identity cards and the indication of the religion was hot, the former bishop of Alexandroupolis – Anthimos was supporting the position of the official Church in an…unorthodox way.

Referring to a fact that was never clarified if it had a real existence, the bishop was saying that about 70  Muslims that were living in the wider region of Alexandroupolis had asked a “voting paper” to sign their claim to mention religion on the ID cards.

This is the same bishop that gave a battle after – out of solidarity – against the Muslim mosque at Peania, as was ordered by the law that was voted by the parliament.

And now he starts a new battle against the law that gives Hellenic nationality to the immigrants who many of them are Muslims. With a simple argument: “The Church was not asked about that. You can’t bring 700 thousands Muslims in the country and make them Greeks without even asking the Church.”

The Thessaloniki bishop (Anthimos), whatever they charge on him, one must admit that he knows about politics. The governments many times are acting according to the perception of the “lost vote” from the “side-church” that prevails inside the hierarchy. That means that the bishop will shout from the pulpit, the Christian crowd will be terrified, the MPs will feel pressures and they will transfer this to their parties to convey the message.

Thus with the populism of the opposition party and with the fear of the vote that can be lost, the government goes backwards and turns 180 degrees. The issue of the identity cards confirms the above. There were only two or three MPs and ministers of PASOK during 2000-2004 that defended the omitting of the religion from the identity cards publically. The rest had disappeared in order not to be indicated as opponents of the Church.

Four years now the governments do not take over the political cost of the construction of the Mosque at Eleonas as mentions the law of New Democracy government of 2006. But they are also scared to proceed to the construction of the Muslim cemetery in a field that the Church has bestowed! Yes, of the Church!

The government has not many choices. Either they will proceed immediately and solve the problem of the thousands of immigrants – and not only – Muslims that live in Attica and will confront a part of hierarchy in front and behind stage, or they will confront issues that cannot solve.

The scattered mosques-warehouses that are more than 100 in Attica are not under any control. Whatever is heard by “imams” that are self-announced small “prophets” many times are dangerous and cannot be confronted by the police. The legitimacy, the operation of one or more mosques with rules and conditions, official, with moderate imams and not with competing “Mujahidins”, can be a start.

Unless the government is waiting to finish first with the law for the immigrants and after that to take counsel with the Church. And just the day before yesterday the Hoy Synod stated that they believe that the law for the nationalities does not coincide totally with the immigration problem and that the government should consider the opinions of the bishops.

Bishops that “on one hand they preserve the teachings of Christ for love to everyone, on the other hand they do not know the partial national and social sensitivities, thus their opinions should be co-calculated to face such crucial matters.” This is the Holy Synod whose president is Archbishop Ieronymos.

Skit video #2 from the eternal journey

Here’s another skit from the seminar.  Subhan Allah, it’s really moving.  It made me scared and almost sick to my stomach in worry.

Prayer with an innovated water-saving device

Source: Enet.gr

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A Malaysian company has invented a device that, as they claim, will help Muslims to make their cleansing before their prayers without spending too much water.

The “green” device is accompanied by automatic sensors and sinks that interrupt the water flow during  “wudu” – a word with Arabic origin that indicates the procedure that the face, hands and feet of the faithful are cleansed before the prayer.

The ritual of ablution is preceded by the five prayers that a Muslim is obliged to perform.

Today in the world there are 1.7 billion Muslims who mainly live in Africa and Middle East, which are areas with weak water resources.

The device has height of 1.65cm and it recites also Quranic verses. It uses only 1.3 liters of water and it is better than the old traditional methods where tabs are left to run during the entire ablution of the faithful that can last a few minutes.

“During Hajj (Mecca pilgrimage) two million people were spending 50 million liters of water for wudu. If they use this device they will save 40 million liters per day,” states the chairman of AACE Technologies Antony Gomez.

The investors of the company are very optimistic that the rich Muslim countries will obtain this machine that will be available in six months and costs 3-4000 dollars.

Dubai already has expressed interest to obtain this device for the airport, Gomez stated, adding that this machine needed two years to be completed and costs 2.5 million dollars.

Question to the parliament for mosque and cemetery by MP Gr.Psarianos

MP of SYRIZA party, Grigoris Psarianos applied yesterday a formal question to the Parliament about the construction of the official mosque and the Muslim cemetery, as this issue seems to be forgotten once again.

Below you can read the entire question

 

 

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Question To Ministers

• National Defense  
• Education, Life Learning and Religions
• Internal Affairs, Decentralization and Electronic Governing
• Infrastructure Transportations and Networks

 

Subject: “Construction of Muslim mosque and construction of Muslim cemetery”

The Muslim immigrants that live in our country are estimated to be about 700-800 thousand and most of them live in Attica. According to their biggest organization, the Muslim Association of Greece, despite the fact that they do not face problems with the Greek citizens, the same does not happen with the Greek State, which seems to totally ignore their community.

The proof is in the long procrastination of the Hellenic state to fulfill two major issues of the Muslim community: the construction of an official mosque and of a Muslim cemetery in the Attica region.

Today in Athens there are only unofficial praying places, about 100, and the Arabs, Pakistanis, Bangladesh and Kurds that are the majority of the Muslim immigrants. The Muslims from other nationalities pray at the places of the Arab community.

The places are undergrounds, garages, stores, some are neat and others in a miserable situation, depending on the potential of every group. Also in Athens there is not a Muslim cemetery, nor a section for Muslim burial.

Some deceased are transferred to their countries of origin, if this is possible, as it is very costly. Others have no homeland to bury [their dead] as the Palestinians.

The construction of a mosque is described in two laws. The first was by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004 describing the construction of a worship place for the Muslims at Peania.

But this plan was abandoned after the reactions of the residents of the area and the Church as well. The second law was voted on in 2006 and described the construction of the mosque at Eleonas.

Also, according to a briefing to Muslim Association of Greece by the special Secretary of Religions Ministry when the minister was Evr.Stylianides, there was a disbursement of 15 million euro for the construction of the mosque taken by the State expenditure treasury, as the law of 2006 describes, and that the only delay was the relocation of the supermarket of the navy base from this area, something that was under the authority of the Ministry of National Defense.

With a relative question from Syriza PM Pericles Korovesis, on March 2009 to three ministries, the National Defense Minister replies that on August 2008 there had been sent to the Ministry of Education and Religions, “document that are mentioned the possible locations that the mosque can be constructed at the Navy Base of Votanikos, as well as the financial demands for relocation of the activities of the Navy to another area…”

The Ministry of National Defense and the navy headquarters are expecting the notification of the intentions from the Ministry of Religions. The Ministry of Environment and Zoning replied that “the issue of the Islamic mosque is being handled by the Ministry of Education and Religions.

And the Ministry of Education and Religions, refusing any responsibility, replies, “We are notifying you that the responsibility of the ministry lies only to the financial management of the Islamic mosque that starts after its construction.”

However, article 3 of Law 3512/2006 defines that, “the construction of the mosque will be done by the administration of Applying Educational Projects of the Ministry of Education and Religions and with expenses of the Program of State Investments.” Nevertheless the minister “washes its hands” while the first disbursement has been made.

A similar case stands with the construction of the Muslim cemetery. The Church has bestowed for this reason in 2005 a field of 30.000m² at the Shisto area. But according to the document of the ministry of internal affairs “after reservations that the Organization “Athena” expressed regarding the suitability of the place in question for the specific usage, from zoning and ground aspect, this case is reconsidered…”

After that on June of 2009 the Church states with a letter to the Minister of Environment and Zoning, Mr. Souflias, that this is a social necessity and moves to the next step. [It] bestows another field in the area and has already prepared and given the blueprint and asks the immediate response of the ministries. Until today the State has not responded.

 

Because of a multicultural Europe of today, Athens is the only European capital that has not taken care of a place of worship and burial of the Muslim population and because it is an issue of social acceptance and mutual respect  to the hundreds of thousands co-citizens, the ministers in charge are asked:

1. In which stage are the procedures for the construction of the mosque at Eleonas?
2. Which ministry is responsible for the funding of the relocation of the services of the navy that is operating in the area?
3. What happened to the 15 million euro that according to the Ministry of Education and Religions has been disbursed by the treasury for the expenses of the construction of the mosque?
4. Has a notary action been conducted between the Church and State, with which the specific field at Shisto is being bestowed for the construction of the Muslim cemetery? If not why is it delaying, while the church has all good intentions to proceed with this issue?
5. Which ministry coordinates the construction of the Muslim cemetery and when is it expected to conclude the works?

The parliamentarian that asks,

Grigoris Psarianos

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