Minister of
Security and Justice Van der Steur has written to parliament claiming that
there is little transparency on how Muslim institutions in the Netherlands are financed.
He added that many mosques work with “informal transactions” and cash
payments. Van der Steur says that while
religious communities have the right to raise money abroad, he is worried that
donors may influence the attitudes of mosques.
A study by the Ministry of Social Affairs has not been able to find out
much about the foreign financing of Dutch mosques. Yet it is known that countries
such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar finance foreign mosques in order to propagate
their version of Islam.
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