“Qatar is today a leading funder of Islam in Europe,” Malbrunot said in an interview with Swiss television RTS in 2019. He said Qatar was doing this through a network of connections close to the Muslim Brotherhood. At home, however, Qatar has a completely different policy towards Christians. Islam is Qatar’s state religion, with the country’s policy and culture dictated by Sharia. The Qatari government considers Christianity a foreign influence. In Qatar, leaving Islam (apostasy) is legally considered a crime punishable by death.

Europe’s largest mosque is under construction in Strasbourg, France.

The €25 million project is mostly funded by the “Islamic Community National View” (IGMG), a Turkish Islamic organization that manages 518 mosques and 2330 branches across Europe as well as in Australia and Canada.

In 2025, French MEP Marion Maréchal said that the organization was accused of “promoting a separatist, Muslim Brotherhood-style Islam”: 

This radical organization is being used by [Turkish President] Erdoğan’s regime to maintain control over Turkish immigrant communities here in our country.

Maréchal added that French and European politicians, on both the Left and Right, 

have rolled out the red carpet for Islamic communities with subsidies, building permits, loans, and land—all to buy their votes in elections. This compromise, openly embraced on the left, sometimes concealed on the right, comes at the cost of our security, and our identity, secularism, national cohesion, and, of course, the fight against Islamism.

This major mosque project in Strasbourg is the Eyyub Sultan Mosque (also referred to as the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg). Work on the project began in 2017. It is being constructed by the Germany-based “Islamic Community National View” or “Islamische Gemeinschaft Mili Görüş” (IGMG), which is reportedly supported through funding from Turkey and Qatar.

The Eyyub Sultan Mosque is not the only one built and managed in the West with foreign funding. The government of Turkey—as well as Qatar and Iran—are on a mission to build mosques across the West to spread Islam. Meanwhile, they severely persecute their own Christian citizens. 

Turkey, whose current government supports the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), actively engages in mosque-building in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and other regions. The Turkish government spends hundreds of millions of dollars building mosques as part of a long-term effort to globally promote Islam. 

Turkey’s state-run Presidency of Religious Affairs, known as the Diyanet, has joined with the Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation (TDV) to construct mosques, as well as Islamic educational and cultural centers, across the world—in places such as the US, Russia, Germany, Sweden, England, Venezuela, and Japan. 

In 2016, for instance, a gigantic Ottoman-style mosque was opened in Maryland, U.S., by Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In 2018, Erdoğan inaugurated another mosque, the ‘Cologne Central Mosque,’ in Germany. The mosque was built by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) after eight years of construction work.

DITIB runs approximately 900 to 1,000 mosques in Germany alone, making it the largest umbrella organization for mosques in the country. These mosques are linked to the Diyanet, which provides imams to DITIB mosques.

At home, however, Turkey is busy desecrating or abusing historical churches. Turkey has even turned the world’s greatest cathedral into a mosque. In 2020, President Erdoğan ordered the conversion of the nearly 1,500-year-old Byzantine-era Greek Orthodox Church, Hagia Sophia, back into a mosque after a court annulled a 1934 presidential decree that had made it a museum.

Two green Ottoman flags are placed inside the Hagia Sophia. The flag represents Ottoman military conquests, and the three white crescents on it symbolize the Ottoman occupation of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 

Turkey formally converted another Byzantine-era Greek church, the Church of St. Savior in Chora (known as Kariye in Turkish), into a mosque in 2020. This occurred soon after it had turned Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer.

Numerous historical churches in Turkey have been turned into stables, warehouses, or barns; used for other sacrilegious purposes; or left in ruins.

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