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“Mosque today, jihad tomorrow”. The slogan could be heard in the Warsaw district of Ochota on 27 March, as 200 protested against the construction of a mosque, Gazeta Wyborczareports. Organised by Europa Przyszłości (Europe of the Future), the demonstrators accuse the mosque’s sponsor, Muslim League in Poland, of having links to the transnational Muslim Brotherhood movement, widely believed to be responsible for terrorist attacks in Egypt. The League strongly denies any hidden agenda, claiming that it is constructing the new mosque because the prayer room currently used by the 10,000-strong Warsaw Muslim community is too small. According to a new poll, Poles are divided. 48% say they would accept a mosque in their neighbourhood, while 42% are against. Gazeta notes that the Warsaw mosque would be only the fifth in Poland with a Muslim population estimated at no more than 30,000.
