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http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-1.735578 depends on who you read According to the Catholic Church, more than 1,000 churches are to be sold or demolished throughout France. The 45,000 new churches built since the passage of the 1905 law separating church and state now belong to their owners — that is, private associations or the Catholic Church, not the local authorities, as had been the previous custom. While some houses of worship are to be demolished, others are slated to become recording studios, fashion house showrooms, hotels, coffee shops, bookstores or private homes. But there is one repurposing that the authorities refuse to sanction: turning a church into a mosque. Since 1905, this changeover has only happened five times. That is five times too many, according to Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right National Front party. “And what if we built parking lots on top of Salafist mosques, instead of our churches?” Le Pen tweeted. The reaction of the Socialist government headed by Manuel Valls was not far off. After a dramatic government statement early last week banning the construction of mosques with foreign funds, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that closure orders had been issued for 20 Salafist mosques. The orders were issued in keeping with the law against incitement, which states that when incitement is present in a sermon, the authorities close the mosque where it was delivered. There are 2,449 registered Muslim prayer rooms in France, only a small number of which are officially defined as mosques. Prayer rooms can exist in any form but a mosque is a free-standing structure that costs millions of euros to build. The mosque in Strasbourg was funded by Saudi Arabia; the one in Provence was built with Moroccan money; in Roncey, funding came from Oman. Until the ban on foreign funds takes effect, there is only one country in the world whose government is prohibited from paying for the construction of a mosque in France: France itself. read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-1.735578
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