But this is the problem I see. Why shut the whole mosque down? Can't they hire a few other locations at the same time as the mosque is open, in which the Muslims could help pay (the rent) together, instead of taking a ticket for every single Muslim wanting to go to pray and at the same time for only a limited amount of time? Take a rent for the time given to pray from the Muslim community, instead of each individual?

I know the money given would be almost the same in all those cases, but the situation is seen through a whole different light when it's many people paying together one thing (rent) instead of every man for himself, making it seem as if they are wanted to stop to pray altogether.

I hope I make sense.

Yes, you make perfect sense, I think we can all agree that the league aren't exactly road safety activists as Fishman put it.
But I guess there are reasons why shut the whole mosque down, if it remains open, people will still prefer to pray there than in a stadium which might result in people praying in the street and this is what the league says they are trying to prevent.
Yeah, I said before leasing the stadium would be a much better solution. So far nothing is definite, there's only suggestions and political talk, the end agreement will probably be much different.

In current Der Spiegel (german magazine) there is very good article about building new mosques in Europe.
The article points out that there is a difference between a mosque and a mega mosque.
A mega mosque has islamic kindergarten, islamic school, islamic restaurant, small islamic hospital, islamic bank,an islamic field for playing games, an islamic cinema.
All things made so that Arabs, Pakistanis or Turks remain isolated from the european societies. With all these things they wouldnt even have to try to learn the language.
And since we all agree that islam is not just a religion but also a political system and law, so allowing to build such mega mosques is simply creating islamic enclaves in the middle of Europe.
On the other hand muslims know that such behaviour is dangerous. They are wise indeed. Only Indonesia has closed few dozens churches in last year.

Nope, a 'Mega-Mosque' is just something tabloids invent when they want to scare people. It's taken from the word 'mega church', used to refer to massive and (often politicised) churches that are found in America.

Of the things on your list:

• most Mosques (mega or otherwise) include some kind of Islamic school or 'kindergarten', but this does not usually replace secular education.
• Some large Mosques have fields or places to play sports in, which is meant to be a good thing as it discourages obesity.
• Some Mosques have a kitchen, which is used to keep or prepare food to be eaten on special occasions. These are from my experience messy places containing packets of old biscuits and flat coke.
• Given that worldly talk is forbidden in Mosques, Islamic banks are not often found there, I think putting banks in a Mosque is like how the Jews put a marketplace in the Temple of Jerusalem before Jesus (pbuh) smashed it.
• There are no such things as Islamic hospitals and Islamic cinemas, and if they do exist it is probably just a marketing ploy. They certainly don't exist in Mosques.

It really breaks my heart to see such controversy over a worship place. I hope there will be a way to solve this without creating even a bigger gap between the western society and ways and muslim ways
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As someone said before, maybe it would be possible to rent some place so that people dont pray on the streets.

It would be also good for the worshippers since Italy is not a warm climate( weather wise) all along the year and maybe it would be quite uncomfortable for people to pray in the rain/mud etc or simply in the cold.