“Islamophobic”: The ban on the Spanish city of religious gatherings raises criticism Islam News

The ban, which was originally proposed by the Fox party, affects Muslims who celebrate religious holidays in the sports centers in Gomilla.

A ban imposed by the city of Southeast, Spain on religious gatherings in public sports centers, which will mainly affect the members of the local Islamic community, has caused criticism from the left government and the United Nations official.

The Spanish Minister of Immigration, Ela -Sais, said on Friday that the ban, which was approved by the conservative local government in Gomilla last week, was “shameful”, and urged local leaders to “retreat” and apologize to the residents.

The ban, which is approved by the famous party in the center in the center, will be enacted in the sports centers used by local Muslims in recent years to celebrate religious holidays such as EID Al-Fitr and Eid al-Edha.

It was originally suggested by the right -wing Vox party, while passing the adjustments before approval. Earlier this week, the Vox branch in the MURCIA region celebrated this procedure, saying X that “Spain will be and will always remain a land of Christian roots!”

The mayor of the city, Saif Gonzalez, told Spain newspaper El Pais that this measure was not released from any one group and that its government wanted to “strengthen the cultural campaigns that defend our identity.”

But Muhammad Al -Jaidouni, Minister of the Federation of Islamic Communities in Spain, said that it was a “terrorist phobia”, with the local government asserting that the Muslim festivals that he celebrated in the centers were “strange to the identity of the city.”

He said that the embargo “clashes with the Spanish state institutions” that protect religious freedom.

Sis Hedry told Spain that policies such as the ban on Gomilla, “citizens who have lived for decades in our cities, in our cities, in our country, contribute and completely integrated without any coexistence problems.”

Miguel Moratinos, the United Nations Special Envoy to Combat Islam, said he was “shocked” from the decision of the Jomilla City Council and expressed “deep concern about the rise in the discourse of foreigners and Islamic feelings in some areas in Spain.”

It was shocked by the decision of the Jumila City Council to ban religious rituals and/or celebrations in municipal facilities in the municipality of Jumila, Murcia, Spain.

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“The decision undermines the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion,” he said in a statement on Friday.

He added: “Policies that uniquely or affect one society in one society constitute a threat to social cohesion and the erosion of the principle of living together in peace.”

The extreme right clashes with the local population

For several centuries, Spanish Muslims ruled, where there is an influence in the Spanish language and in many of the most famous landmarks in the country, including the famous Hamra Palace in Granada.

Islamic rule ended in 1492 when the recent Kingdom of Spain fell on Catholics.

The ban states that municipal sports facilities can only be used for sports activities or events organized by the local authorities. He said that under any circumstances, the center can be used in “external cultural, social or religious activities to the city council.”

Their introduction follows the clashes between extremist right -wing groups, residents and migrants who erupted last month in the southern Murcia region after one of the elderly residing in the town of Tori Pashiko was beaten by the attackers who are believed to be of Moroccan origin.

The right -wing governments in other parts of Europe acknowledged similar measures to the ban on Gomilla, and were struck at the heart of continuous discussions throughout the continent on nationalism, religious and cultural pluralism.

Last year in Mondfalcon, a large industrial port city in northeastern Italy with a large number of immigrants in Bangladesh, the mayor of the right -wing, Anna Maria, has banned prayers in a cultural center.

This step led to protests on about 8,000 people, and the Islamic community in the city appeals in a regional court.