In this mailing: - Soeren Kern: Denmark Bans Foreign Funding of Mosques
- Majid Rafizadeh: Biden Can Trigger a Regional War by Reviving the Nuclear Deal
by Soeren Kern • March 15, 2021 at 5:00 am "The mosque is a gift from Qatar but it's not free. I have always said that they will expect something in return, and this shows that they are making some claims for their money." — Lars Aslan Rasmussen, Copenhagen city councilman. Officials from nearly all of Denmark's main political parties have expressed their support for the bill to ban foreign funding of mosques. "It is a real problem if donations are made from organizations that want to undermine fundamental democratic values." — Foreign Affairs Minister Mattias Tesfaye.
 Denmark's first purpose-built mosque — the Grand Mosque of Copenhagen, officially known as the Hamad Bin Khalifa Civilization Center — opened in June 2014 after receiving a donation of 227 million Danish kroner (€30 million; $36 million) from Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, the former emir of Qatar. Pictured: Qatar's Minister of Religious Affairs Ghaith bin Mubarak Ali Omran Al-Kuwari (second from left) takes part in the official opening ceremony of the Grand Mosque of Copenhagen, on June 19, 2014. (Photo by Thomas Lekfeldt/AFP via Getty Images) The Danish Parliament has approved a new law that bans foreign governments from financing mosques in Denmark. The measure is aimed at preventing Muslim countries, particularly Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, from promoting Islamic extremism in Danish mosques and prayer facilities. Denmark joins a growing list of European countries — including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland — which have taken varying degrees of action to prevent foreign governments from financing the construction and upkeep of mosques on their territories. In recent years, Algeria, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, among others, have distributed hundreds of millions of euros to finance the spread of Islam in Europe. Continue Reading Article by Majid Rafizadeh • March 15, 2021 at 4:00 am Governments in the Middle East have a valid reason to be concerned about the nuclear deal. They have already witnessed its negative consequences. [T]his would have not been the outcome if Israel and other regional powers had been part of the negotiations. The composition of the current negotiating team, similar to the previous one, completely excludes those on Iran's doorstep. In an approach reminiscent of the bygone colonial era, it remains a policy set by governments thousands of miles away. Arab nations have already seen the consequences of the previous attempt at striking a nuclear deal. The Iranian-armed Houthis simply ratcheted up efforts to cause death and destruction in Yemen, and Hezbollah escalated its involvement and control of large swathes of Syrian territory. By returning to a deal which brought nothing but heightened destruction and instability to the region, the Biden administration would be abandoning old allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia – which at least has begun instituting reforms -- and instead empowering a regime that remains an existential threat to the entire Middle East.
 By returning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- also known as Iran nuclear deal -- which brought nothing but heightened destruction and instability to the Middle East, the Biden administration would be abandoning old allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, and instead empowering a regime that remains an existential threat to the entire Middle East. Pictured: Then Vice President Joe Biden meets with then Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the Riyadh airbase in Saudi Arabia on October 27, 2011. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) The Biden administration, deep down, unfortunately seems to wish to forge ahead with its agenda to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- also known as the Iran nuclear deal, which, incidentally, Iran never signed -- and subsequently to lift sanctions against Tehran. Continue Reading Article |
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