Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano announced yesterday that the Italian government will close down all clandestine mosques in the country as part of the fight against terrorism, the Times of Israel website reports today (November 28, 2015).
"In Italy, we have four mosques and over 800 places of Muslim worship," said Alfano.
"We are going to close the clandestine and unregulated places, not to hamper the religion but so that it can be practiced in places which are in order," he added. Some radical Muslims -- not only in Italy but also in several other countries -- have used mosques to "put up a front" in which they plan terrorist attacks.
The interior minister was speaking at a meeting in the southern town of Lecce on the subject of terrorist risks and the influence of so-called "garage Islam" -- the non-registered places of worship where many of the estimated one million Muslims living in Italy go to pray.
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