A brand new mosque not yet inaugurated was blown up early Monday morning in the small French city of Romans-Sur-Isere in the Alps. The mosque was the first to be built outside the main urban areas and was to serve the tens of thousands of migrant workers in the area. There were no casualties but close to $100,000 of damage. Police say a powerful bomb exploded close to the basement. It is generally believed that local inhabitants who had opposed the construction of the mosque had blown it up to prevent the city from becoming “an Arab center.” There are over three million Moslems, mainly of North African origin, in France.
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