A mosque in the Mont Lavelle region, north of the French capital, Paris, has won a case after long legal confrontations with the extremist National Front party.
Abdul Aziz Al-Jawahiri, the supervisor of the mosque, said that the idea of building a mosque for worship and humanitarian work in the region took five years of hard work, confrontations and conflict in the courtrooms.
Al-Jawahiri added, “Fate drove us to purchase the land for building the mosque in 2014, the same year in which the extreme National Front party won the local elections in this city.”
He explained, “We went through long legal confrontations with the National Front Party, which prevented us from building the mosque without clear legal justifications.”
He continued, “We entered more than 20 cases in civil and administrative courts, and in 2019 we were able to win all legal cases against the extremist Front Party.”
Al-Jawahiri stated that the mosque, in addition to embracing the worshipers during prayer periods, performs many other humanitarian events.
He explained, “We are sheltering the homeless and distributing meals to the needy in the Mont Laville area, while all the people who work in the mosque, Muslims and non-Muslims, do their work in a voluntary manner.”
He added, “The number of volunteers during the past year reached more than 300 volunteers, who were supervising the reception of emergency humanitarian cases and providing meals to the needy, in addition to monitoring the interests of the mosque around the clock.”
