Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has declared that he will not allow any new mosques to be built in Russia's capital, the Europe News website reports today (March 17, 2013).
Moscow only has four mosques, but that's plenty, according to the mayor, who believes new ones won't be needed once Moscow's estimated two million unregistered foreigners are "dealt with."
Mayor Sobyanin said: "It has turned out that the praying Muslims are not at all Russian citizens and they are not Moscow residents. They are labor migrants. There are only 10 percent of Moscow residents among them and building mosques for everyone who wants them -- I think this will be over the top."
Moscow's Muslims are not happy with the ban. The Russian Mufti Council has promised to fight it, saying it's sending a request to build a new mosque to President Vladimir Putin himself.
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