Sweden Democrats Build EU Coalition Against New Mosques
4th March 2026
MEP Charlie Weimers has long worked towards limiting what he describes as Europe’s (especially Iranian) Islamist threat. Now he is going further, demanding that lawmakers across the continent clamp down on the construction of new mosques.
The Sweden Democrats (SD) MEP has submitted a “mosque ban” motion to the European Parliament after last month saying that “the expansion of mosques and other radicalisation centres must be actively countered at national, local and EU level.”
Weimers has pointed to examples of mosque officials in Sweden preaching about “how men should beat their wives” and mosques in Brussels functioning as “recruitment centre[s] for Islamic State fighters.” He also last month wrote to the European Commission, highlighting that “several European countries have closed mosques and Islamic centres after it came to light that they were being used as instruments of radicalisation, recruitment and terrorist financing.”