According to UK site ‘express.co.uk’, a Greek government official from the Education Ministry, who wanted to remain anonymous told newspaper ‘Kathimerini’ that authorities fear that Muslims in Greece could be radicalised, if a mosque was not built for their religious needs soon. ‘Every day we do not have an official mosque and imam in Athens, we pay the increased risk of the radicalisation of Muslims’, he said. Greece passed a law in 2006 to build a mosque, but the project has been mired in legal appeals preventing it from taking off the ground. The Muslim community in Greece, which was estimated to be around 300,000 have been using makeshift praying areas in basements across Athens, most of which do not comply with state building safety regulations. If the mosque is built the state will have the right to appoint the imam and have some oversight over the kind of religious ideas preached. ‘The state has to have an official interlocutor who represents the various branches of Islam. When you do not have official places of worship, who can you speak with?’, the official said. Greece is feeling the full brunt of the refugee influx, the vast majority of whom are Muslims. Of course, the building of mosques in Brussels or Paris did nothing to prevent the radicalisation of young 2nd and 3rd generation Muslims raised in European culture.