Muslims aggrieved in Greece

[AlphaCentauri]

Thousands of Muslims from Arab nations, Africa and the Indian subcontinent now live and work in Athens, often scraping by with meager wages and in squalid accommodations.

A long-standing grievance is that despite years of promises, the Greek state has provided Muslims no official prayer sites, forcing the faithful to set up makeshift mosques in rented apartments and unused warehouses.

The Muslim Union of Greece says there are more than 100 unlicensed prayer sites in Athens and hundreds of thousands of Muslims, not counting Albanians and illegal immigrants.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/muslims-aggrieved-in-greece/

Why the state has to provide praying sites, are these guys trying to brake the separation of the church and state?

[moggie]

1. Er, what?

You are aware that Greece is not part of the USA, right? As in, not subject to the first amendment? Isn't it obvious that a country which has the concept of "unlicensed prayer sites" already lacks full separation of church and state? After all, the Greek Orthodox church has special status in the Greek constitution, so you can hardly blame modern Muslims trying to intertwine church and state.

[AlphaCentauri]

3. I can see churches in the US are license as non-profits

that is there is no separation of state and church either

[UndertheOcean]

2. Greece is a third world country , not the USA

It will take them a few hundred years to get first amendment rights.

[maxsolomon]

4. perhaps these muslim immigrants are unaware of the history of Greece?

and it historic domination by the Ottoman empire, it's war of independence, and the resulting relocation of greeks and muslims to their respective sides of the agean sea? see cyprus if you need a more contemporary example.

that don't make it right, it just puts it in context. a mosque in greece is going to be as popular as a synagoge in mecca.