A press release issued Wednesday by the Muslim mufti of Romania and countersigned by the leaders of both the Turkish and Tatar ethnic organizations in Romania require the support of Romanian authorities to rein in possible slippages' preaching Islam in certain places of worship.
In the document signed by Mufti Muurat Yusuf, Gelil Eserghep - President of the Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tartars in Romania (UDTTMR) and Fedbi Osman - President of the Turkish Democratic Union of Romania (UDTR) requires that the Romanian authorities in this tense period internationally to pay greater attention to issues facing the Muslim community in Romania, confessional specific issues that could have repercussions on the society, once out of control.
"It's about living, Romania, Muslim places of worship that propagate religious ideas in unfamiliar places that have notified the Muslim Mufti Office in Romania. Their existence and the danger they pose, we, the representatives of the three institutions, I drew attention to a meeting that I had at the beginning of parliamentarians Constanta. For a more efficient management of this issue we believe that we must follow the UK model, where the spreads fundamentalism places are closed. We also call again public legislative regulation of the establishment and operation of churches especially those of Islam. We believe that any place of worship, regardless of denomination, must be approved by the cult to which it belongs and other state institutions. Equally, the officiating staff jobs should be approved so that the cult and the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research of the Romanian Government. Thus, we avoid situations where some foreigners or Romanian assumes the status of representatives of the Muslim community and speak on its behalf officiating jobs, ignoring Romanian state institutions, "reads the press release, quoted by Agerpres.
