Italy: One Million Muslim, Only One Mosque (Masjid).
Muslim in Italy struggle to find place to pray with lack of mosques.
Rome is spiritual hart of Roman Catholic faith, inhere to by 90% of Italian, the dominance for centuries, but so too is Islam. Islam existed since 9 century with million faithfull. Islam is country second largest religion in Italy. But unlike other religions there still not recognized by the State and Muslim in Italy has only just one official mosque, that is at Rome.
"People have the right to express their faith and to have the place for pray, said David Markay a local resident.
Number of Muslim in Italy is rising, but somehow the prejudice of Islam that related to violance, terorisme, etc may mislead the natural openmindness of Islam itself. In this case Government understanding to religion leaders said, need to be addressed.
June 3, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Muslims should be allowed to have a place to pray and practice their freedom of worship. If Italy calls it self a democratic country and is part of the european union it should give muslims their rights, just like other european countries do.