Amsterdam: City Council Rejects Mayor Cohen's Plea for Mosque Subsidies

AMSTERDAM, 30/08/08 - A majority on Amsterdam city council is distancing itself from Mayor Job Cohen's idea of subsidising mosques. Cohen wants the local authority to help religious groups build a house of prayer, as has already happened with the infamous Westermoskee mosque. It is not according to him a matter of subsidising a faith but of fostering integration. Labour (PvdA), conservatives (VVD) and Christian democrats (CDA) rejected Cohen's proposals in a council meeting. The leftwing Greens (GroenLinks), Socialist Party (SP) and centre-left D66 did support the Islam subsidies, proposed recently by Cohen in a report on the separation of...

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