Swiss lawmakers have expressed their growing concerns over the spread of Wahhabi and Salafist radical views among European Muslims and a lack of transparency of the country’s funding of mosques and Muslim organizations. Sputnik reports: Swiss parliamentarians have raised the alarm over possible foreign influence on the country’s mosques and called attention to lack of transparency over their funding. Speaking to swissinfo.ch, Doris Fiala, member of the National Council and Vice-Chairperson of the Swiss delegation to the PACE, pointed out that it would be “naïve to say there is no problem with the financing of Swiss mosques.” “We have no clue who is financing what. We don’t know what money is coming in. There is no transparency,” she underscored. For her part, Saida Keller-Messahli, the president of the Forum for a Progressive Islam, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that “huge sums of money” flow to Switzerland from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey. Keller-Messahli claimed that one of those sponsors, the Saudi-based Muslim World League is spreading Wahhabi or Salafist views among European Muslims. According to swissinfo.ch, the concerns were prompted by incidents in Winterthur and Geneva mosques. The media outlet noted that in early November [...]
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