EU proposes monitoring radical mosques

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

EU proposes monitoring radical mosques

By COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 40 minutes ago

VENICE, Italy - Security officials from Europe's largest countries
backed a plan Saturday to profile mosques on the continent and
identify radical Islamic clerics who raise the threat of homegrown
terrorism.

The project, to be finished by the fall, will focus on the roles of
imams, their training, their ability to speak in the local language and
their sources of funding, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner
Franco Frattini told a news conference after a meeting on terrorism.

Italian Interior Minister Guiliano Amato said Europe had extensive
experience with the "misuse of mosques, which instead of being
places of worship are used for other ends.

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Adel Smith, a well-known Muslim activist in Italy, said mosques in
Italy are already extensively monitored and called the EU plan
discriminatory.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070512/ap_on_re_eu/eu_mosques

[DumpDavisHogg]

1. Another reason the EU isn't worth a damn

They profile Muslims (allegedly to find extremists), yet they won't profile extremists of other religions?

The person who said the EU plan is discriminatory is right.

[Odin2005]

2. I don't think there are that many Christian extremists in Europe resorting to terrorism.