German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday said Saudi Arabia must stop financing fundamentalist mosques abroad which are accused of breeding extremism.
“From Saudi Arabia, Wahhabi mosques are financed throughout the world,” said Gabriel.
“In Germany many extremists considered dangerous persons emerge from these communities,” he told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
Gabriel, who is Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deputy in a left-right coalition, warned against alienating Saudi Arabia, a crucial player in the bid to end the Syrian war, with too much criticism. [AFP] Read more
