Muslim Countries Build Mosques in the West While Persecuting Christians at Home
22nd May 2026
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] Erdo?an’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 Görü?” (IGMG), which is reportedly supported through funding from Turkey and Qatar.