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Germany considering “mosque tax” to curb foreign influence among Muslims

Dec 28, 2018 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In a bid to curb a potentially radicalizing foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering a new “mosque tax,” intended to make Muslim communities self-reliant and under more control. Many German mosques are sponsored and are de-facto controlled from abroad, leaving local authorities in the dark about what happens inside.

Implementing a tax is no real solution to counter the foreign funding problem. Such influence will continue to expand despite such a tax, because of the determination of foreign states to spread dawah in order to Islamize the West the West and promote Islam globally.

Turkey is one of the largest sources of foreign funding for mosques in Germany, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan officially opening a “mega-mosque” in Cologne at the end of September which was largely funded by the Turkish government.

What’s needed is a ban on foreign-funded mosques and mosques that preach jihad. Last year, Switzerland banned foreign-funded mosques. Mosques should also be required to use local languages instead of Arabic. Above all, however, sermons must be monitored to ensure that there is no preaching of sedition or subversion.

“Germany mulls ‘Mosque tax’ to help distract Muslims from ‘foreign influence,’” RT, December 26, 2018:

In a bid to curb a potentially radicalizing foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering a new “mosque tax,” intended to make Muslim communities self-reliant and under more control.

Many German mosques are sponsored and are de-facto controlled from abroad, leaving local authorities in the dark about what happens inside. Now, several MPs have come up with an idea that they call a “solution” for a problem that has become increasingly unnerving for Berlin in recent years.

The MPs’ proposal involves the introduction of a special tax to be paid by all practicing Muslims in Germany, which would then be redistributed by the state among all officially registered Islamic religious institutions. A similar tax already exists in Germany and some other European countries for Catholic and Evangelical Christians.

The initiative is aimed at helping “Islam in Germany free itself from the influence of foreign states and get a stronger domestic orientation,” Thorsten Frei, the deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) faction in the German Parliament, said, calling the proposed tax “an important step in that direction.”

Frei’s idea immediately received support from other members of the ruling Grand Coalition. “Independent financing” would make the communities congregating in mosques in Germany more “transparent,”….

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  1. Halal Bacon says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 11:19 am

    how about turn the mosque into migrant housing? All mo all the time?

  2. nicu says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 11:20 am

    I agree with Halal Bacon ☺

    better would be NO mosques at all !

    • Ren Ostertag says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 4:02 am

      1000 + !!!

  3. James Lincoln says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 11:23 am

    Dominik Tarczynski is absolutely brilliant Polish MP for the Law and Justice Party, which is currently the country’s ruling party! I have watched all of his “English-speaking” YouTube videos from the past couple of years. He is absolutely “spot-on” in his analysis of the Muslim migrant crisis. Because of him, I cannot bring myself to tell another Polish joke.

    At 10:48 in this video with Katie Hopkins, watch how Dominik tackles the question of letting the Saudi’s finance a mosque in Warsaw.

    Fantastic!

  4. jayell says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 11:49 am

    ‘Curb foreign influence among muslims’? But muslims ARE a ‘foreign influence’. They all need curbing!

    • Ernie says

      Dec 28, 2018 at 3:01 pm

      Indeed Jayell !

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 28, 2018 at 10:16 pm

      Spot on, Jayell.

      • Rufolino says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 3:38 am

        We are told that “mosques should be monitored to make sure there is no preaching of sedition”.

        Are you serious ?

        HOW can “the preaching of sedition” be banned if Islamic scriptures are being taught ??

        It can’t ! Islamic scriptures are sedition against the kafir, sedition against women, sedition against gays…

  5. Michael Nollet says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    This is an extension to Islam of the Kirchensteuer, or the “Church Tax.” That was an innovation of Bismarck, who reasoned that if practitioners of Protestantism or Catholicism were to be taxed to support their churches, then the churches wouldn’t have to depend on the collection plate. In practice this means that the churches are now dependent on the government, and can be counted to toe the government line — which was possibly also what Bismarck intended.

  6. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 pm

    “The initiative is aimed at helping “Islam in Germany free itself from the influence of foreign states and get a stronger domestic orientation.”

    —

    One despairs! “helping” Islam in Germany free itself from the influence of foreign states? Is this what Islam in Germany has been trying to accomplish and need some help with? “oh, thank you,” says the imam, “we’ve been trying to free ourselves from the influence of foreign states for years!”

    More,

    “In a bid to curb …foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering…”

    —

    What is “foreign” to a Muslim? To a Muslim, “foreign” is *anything non-Muslim*. The German non-Muslim next door is *foreign*. The German non-Muslim employer is *foreign*. The German non-Muslim doctor, teacher, politician, values, culture. laws, police, courts, country are *all* foreign. The police presence in a Muslim ghetto is a *foreign occupation*. Nothing that is Muslim is foreign, whether it be from, in, or pertaining to Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mauritania, etc., etc.

    So, good luck to those silly Abgeordneten with their stubborn fantasy of “helping” Muslims in Germany achieve “a stronger domestic orientation.” They seem not to have noticed that from around 1955 to around 1975, when Muslims in Germany were “free from the influence of foreign states,” they came no closer to their presumed dream of “stronger domestic orientation.” But I suspect that for pathologically multikulti Germans to acknowledge this would mean it becomes harder to blame themselves for “not doing enough to help Muslims integrate.” Christ Almighty! What it is to labour under a guilt you can never shake off.

    But there is more:

    1. Will Muslims submit to reverse jizya? Instead of infidels paying Muslims, Muslims pay infidels? Qaradawi will have something to say about this? Yes, that’s whom they’ll consult, the ulama in a “foreign” land, not the German tax consultant across town.

    2. Will Muslims allow infidel tax officials to snoop around in their books? That comes perilously close to exposing their zakat throughputs and its compulsory terror funding.

    So, yeah. Toi toi toi!

    • Ren Ostertag says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 4:11 am

      Anjuli Pandavar – you hit it on the nail !!! The non-Muslims are their enemies to them and NOT the “foreign” influence from Saudi-Arabia, Turkey, etc. They, the Muslims consider all the Muslims from whatever country their “brothers”. The rest of humanity are their enemies to me and enemies must be treated accordingly (killing them, enslave them, subjugate them in any other form, etc.), but those who have never lived in a Muslim country amongst Muslims will never learn.
      Jetting in a government plane to Saudi-Arabia or wherever will not give you any insight into the everyday reality of life under sharia.

      • Ren Ostertag says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 4:13 am

        Meant to say “are their enemies to them, NOT “me” ! Sorry for the typo, am getting very tired, it is late in the night here.

  7. Karen says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    “Last year, Switzerland banned foreign-funded mosques.’

    A very smart, and reasonable move. Whoever pays the bills, calls the shots, so when Saudi Arabia builds mosques all over the world, it’s completely possible that at least some Wahhabism comes with the deal. The Turkish government’s religious mission sends prepared sermons to it’s affiliates all over the world, as another example.

    Communities that don’t want the deep, unregulated pockets of a foreign government/theocracy promoting it’s religious and political beliefs locally will rightly forbid this type of funding.

  8. gerald zavage says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    So the US has the same separation of mosque and state problem. The First Amendment applies to Congress and not foreign governments so the foreign government can establish all the mosques/churches/synagogues/etc. they please. And Islam, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia are first among them.
    Rep. Dave Brat introduced legislation, which was tabled, that would have required countries that build religious buildings in the U.S. to first demonstrate that they provide for religious freedom in their home country. This would rule out Saudi Arabia and very possibly Turkey too.

  9. August West says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 5:15 pm

    This tax is worse than it appears.

    If building mosques becomes a revenue source, then zoning restrictions and other barriers to mosque building will erode.

    This tax will make the government want more mosques.

    Also this tax will inculcate the notion that foreign mosque ownership/funding is ok… as long as they pay their taxes.

    I’d bet if you peel back the layers to see who supports this tax it’s either the MB, Saudi, or some other Islamic entity.

    It’s a bad tax – so you can rest assured it will be implemented.

    And I am sure somebody is saying the revenue will go to schools and/or roads.

  10. abad says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 7:48 pm

    There should not be any mosques at all in Germany.

    Islam can never be German. Period.

    • ronyvo says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 4:50 pm

      abad, I agree, but, it could happen. THE PEOPLE have to rise. The leaders are corrupt and ignorant beyond comprehension. History speaks. Most of the ME countries which are Islamic NOW have been pious Christians. For instance, Egypt, my birth country, was over 96% Christians. Now for over 1400 years is over 75% Muslims. Iraq, Syria, Jordan… are just examples of how Muslims operate. Those Sahara dwellers conquered those countries by the sword. Islam survived that long because the strong West had no idea how dangerous those people are.

      NOW, however, the Muslims realized that force is out of question for them against the powerful West. So, they are using all kind of sneaky tactics to invade the West. I think that THE PEOPLE are starting to understand Islam and slowly, sadly so, but surely they are going to realize that those Muslims are professional criminals.

      Islam is on life support.

  11. gravenimage says

    Dec 28, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    Germany considering “mosque tax” to curb foreign influence among Muslims
    ………………..

    Not sure how much this would help–after all, the problem is Islam itself; and having the German government heavily involved in Mosque-building is actually very disturbing.

    The only good thing here is that at least this means that German authorities realize that there is a problem with what is going on at Mosques.

  12. infidel says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 7:14 am

    Another Islamic TRUISM from the annals of the infidel:

    Infidels can buy permanent peace from Islam ONLY BY COMPLETE QUARANTINE… either Islam is quarantined or infidels quarantine themselves from Islam,

  13. ronyvo says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    When westerners will understand the diabolical Islam? When are they going to realize that Muslims are the most vicious enemy who have ONE thing in their extremely hateful minds, which is Islamize the globe. They found out that it is easier than they have imagined. One can just watch what happened to the beautiful Christian Swedish people and Germans are following fast.

    This tax on mosques would not change anything. Only one Western law will work NO Muslims in our countries NOT ONE.

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