Slovakia has adopted a law which effectively prevents Islam from becoming an official state religion.
The legislation, which was proposed by the far-right Slovak National Party (SNS), says that a religion needs to have at least 50,000 members so it could be registered as official.
The bill earned support from two-thirds of the parliament.
The party’s Chairman Andrej Danko said: “Islamisation starts with a kebab and it’s already under way in Bratislava, let’s realise what we can face in five to 10 years… We must do everything we can so that no mosque is built in the future.”
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has said “Islam has no place” in the country.
The change will make it much harder to register Islam, which has just 2,000 adherents in Slovakia according to the last census and no recognised mosques. The Islamic Foundation in Slovakia estimates the number at around 5,000.
The small central European country’s population is 5.4 million; 62 percent of it is declared Roman Catholic.
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