We should be terrified by the enormous mosque that Qatar and Turkey are erecting in Strasbourg. Just a few kilometres from the European Parliament, this wrecking ball of democracy represents a symbolic and practical threat to the very values its sponsors claim to uphold.
Foreign Money Buys Influence
The Eyyûb Sultan mosque is funded primarily by Turkey’s Millî Görüş political movement and Qatar. It is a disgrace that either country is permitted to sponsor vast civic and cultural projects in European cities.
Turkey continues its military occupation of northern Cyprus, territory belonging to the Republic of Cyprus, an EU member state, while Qatar hosts Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders in five-star Doha hotels.
Put simply, these governments pursue policies and provide financing that are hostile to the West. Yet Western freedoms have allowed them to promote their political ideologies, in their own languages, among communities living in European capitals. Equivalent public expressions of Christianity would be heavily restricted in their lands.
The effect of this foreign sponsorship on Europe’s democratic stability has already been significant. The Eyyûb Sultan mosque is just one of 113 mosques, Islamic centres and Muslim-organisation projects across 14 European states funded by Qatar.
Yet as millions of migrants arrive from the Islamic world, socialist politicians openly celebrate the electoral effect of their alliance with these foreign sponsors. Non-European voters disproportionately support parties of the left, and the political influence that mosques can exercise over Muslim communities in Europe should not be underestimated.
How Mosques Shape Elections
In Bradford, a heavily Muslim city in northern England, the main parties contested a parliamentary by-election in 2012. Their posters appeared around the city as usual, while their representatives debated one another in public. The winner was George Galloway, whose campaign relied less on conventional visibility and more on a direct appeal to Muslim voters, particularly over matters of foreign policy.
Sweden has also received a particularly large number of migrants, while socialist authorities have enthusiastically inaugurated vast mosques in Malmö and Stockholm. In Sweden’s September 2026 national election, the Social Democrats and the Left Party received just over 80 per cent of the support of Muslim voters. It is probable that without migrant voters, the right would have won the election.
It is a tragic irony that the votes required for a national left-wing victory are increasingly counted in areas of cities that are no longer recognisably part of that nation.
Denmark’s socialist government has not stopped migration, contrary to its claims. In Copenhagen, the €20 million Hamad Bin Khalifa Civilisation Center - named after Qatar’s former emir - makes it more likely that Sweden’s political transformation could eventually be repeated here.
A free and democratic society cannot coexist with the patronage of radical Islamist states. Yet the left-wing parties that benefit from migrant votes are more concerned with the next election than with Europe’s demographic profile a decade from now.
The Red-Green Alliance Will Fail
The cynical red-green alliance is doomed to fail because Islamists abolish democracy once they have used it to take power, crushing their socialist partners in the process. Consider Iran, where high-minded socialists and progressives joined forces with the ayatollahs to overthrow the Shah.
European democracy is at risk unless we push back against the aggressive political lobbying of foreign governments that are actively occupying our territory and financing our terrorist enemies.
Kristoffer Storm
Danish MEP
