One of France’s top Muslim leaders calls for the number of mosques to double over the next two years to remedy a shortage of places of worship for the country’s millions of faithful.
Speaking at a weekend gathering of French Islamic organizations, where participants ask for respect in the face of a rise in anti-Muslim attacks, Dalil Boubakeur says the 2,200 mosques in the country do not adequately represent Europe’s largest Muslim community.
“We need double (that number) within two years,” the head of the French Muslim Council and rector of the Paris mosque says in the town of Le Bourget near the capital.
“There are a lot of prayer rooms, of unfinished mosques, and there are a lot of mosques that are not being built,” he adds at the Muslim gathering, billed as the largest in the Western world.
— AFP
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