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Message: <blockquote data-quote="niroshf" data-source="post: 21023301" data-attributes="member: 48134"><a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/slovakia-wont-recognize-islam" target="_blank">http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/slovakia-wont-recognize-islam</a>by Stefan Farrar  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  December 12, 2016    BRATISLAVA (ChurchMilitant.com) - Slovakia is barring Islam from gaining recognition as an official religion. The Slovakian parliament passed a bill requiring a religion to have a minimum of 50,000 adherents in order to qualify for government funding and to have its own schools.The piece of legislation will increase the difficulty for Islam to register as an official state religion in Slovakia, as Islam has only 2,000 members, according to the census. There are no officially recognized mosques, which the Slovakian government has confirmed.Ivan Netik, the Interior Ministry spokesman, remarked, "In Slovakia we have really tiny community of Muslims. We even don't have mosques."Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico commented, "Since Slovakia is a Christian country, we cannot tolerate an influx of 300,000-400,000 Muslim immigrants who would like to start building mosques all over our land and trying to change the nature, culture and values of the state."</blockquote>

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