Strasbourg
The financing of places of worship in Strasbourg remains controversial. And in particular the subsidy of 2.5 million euros, which was voted by the majority of environmentalists in March 2021, to allow the construction of the Turkish Islamic Union Milli Gorus Mosque. On November 10, the administrative court, which had confiscated the prefect Josian Chevalier, annulled this subsidy. But at the same time, on behalf of Mayor Zhanna Barseghyan (EELV) at the meeting of the City Council of Elders on September 26 “equality between religions” was photographed “clear, transparent, common framework” for the financing of places of worship. His opponents LREM, LR and PS abstained from voting.
The mayor’s aim was to equate Islam and other religions, such as Buddhism, with statutory cults under local Alsace-Moselle law, particularly Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed and Jewish cults, which can benefit from investment grants. However, since 1999 and without any…
Source: Le Figaro
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