Muslim workers, residing in the Italian town of Monfalcone, have been banned by far-right mayor from praying inside their two cultural centres since November, Free Malaysia Today reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the report, the Muslim residents assemble in a privately owned construction site to perform the Friday prayer as they await a court decision later this month to settle a zoning issue they say has barred their constitutional right to prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Immigrants make up a third of this city of 30,000 inhabitants outside Trieste, most of them Bangladeshi Muslims who began arriving in the late 1990s to build cruise-liners for ship builder Fincantieri, whose Monfalcone shipyard is Italy\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Mayor Anna Cisint, the restriction on prayer is about zoning, not discrimination.Urban planning regulations tightly limit the establishment of places of worship, and as a mayor in a secular state, she says it is not her job to provide them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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