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| Saudi Funded Mosque Opened in Nice Two Weeks Before Attack |
| 2016-07-15 |
| [Breitbart] An Islamic Mosque, funded and owned by a hardline, "fundamentalist" Saudi Arabian cleric, opened in the Nice just two weeks before the Southern French city was struck by a deadly terror attack. Town Mayor Christian Estrosi had fought a bitter legal battle with the French state in an attempt to stop it opening, claiming the owner, Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs Sheikh Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh (pictured left) "advocates Sharia law and destroyed all the churches on the Arabian Peninsula." "Our intelligence agencies are worried about this place of worship," the mayor said, before warned about "unregulated foreign funding," according to French news site RTL. Mr. Estrosi, mayor since 2008, argued that the project, which was initiated under his predecessor in 2002, was unauthorised. He took central government representative Prefect Adolphe Colrat to court but did not succeed. Mr. Colrat accused Mr. Estrosi, who is a member of France's centre-right The Republicans Party, of "feeding populism" and scapegoating the entire Muslim community to gain votes, AFP reported. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Mr. Colrat not available for comment on the recent massacre? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-07-15 12:05 |