But note that even as Marie Arena acknowledges that radicals use mosques to recruit and plan activities, she has to assure us that this has nothing to do with genuine Islam. When, just by way of comparison, did you ever hear the media or a governing official assure the public that a case of sexual abuse by a priest had nothing to do with genuine Christianity?
Yet even that comparison is inexact, because Christianity doesn’t teach sexual abuse, but there is abundant evidence that anti-Semitism (Qur’an 2:62-65, 5:59-60, 7:166, 9:30 etc.) and violence (Qur’an 9:5, 9:29, etc.) are not abuses of Islam at all. From Expatica, :
BRUSSELS – Belgian intelligence services are to investigate mosques suspected of promoting anti-Semitic and xenophobic messages, it has been revealed.
The move was announced by Equal Opportunities Minister Marie Arena … Arena played down the significance of the proposal on mosques in the action plan, arguing that it was no secret that mosques were often the target of fundamentalists….
The minister stressed that Islam as a religion had to be seen independently from Islamic extremism.