In a bid to curb a potentially radicalizing foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering a new “mosque tax,” intended to make Muslim communities self-reliant and under more control. Many German mosques are sponsored and are de-facto controlled from abroad, leaving local authorities in the dark about what happens inside.

Implementing a tax is no real solution to counter the foreign funding problem. Such influence will continue to expand despite such a tax, because of the determination of foreign states to spread dawah in order to Islamize the West the West and promote Islam globally.

Turkey is one of the largest sources of foreign funding for mosques in Germany, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan officially opening a “mega-mosque” in Cologne at the end of September which was largely funded by the Turkish government.

What’s needed is a ban on foreign-funded mosques and mosques that preach jihad. Last year, Switzerland banned foreign-funded mosques. Mosques should also be required to use local languages instead of Arabic. Above all, however, sermons must be monitored to ensure that there is no preaching of sedition or subversion.

“Germany mulls ‘Mosque tax’ to help distract Muslims from ‘foreign influence,’” RT, December 26, 2018: