Saudi promises on building at least 200 mosques in Germany
After the Syrian Civil War, the number of citizens fleeing the country and leaving to other countries has been on the rise.
Some of the countries providing shelters to the Internally Displaced People (IDPs, acronym set by the aid community for internal refugees) are Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
Germany has been one of these countries and is said to be housing about 20,000 refugees who have travelled by train, bus and on foot.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has offered to build at least 200 mosques in Germany for the sake of accommodating the refugees coming in large numbers.
The Kingdom has also assisted financially by contributing to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Syria fund.
What do you think about this pledge made by Saudi?
They r trouble creators this is peanut .
Why do not they take Muslims into saudia
They r trouble creators this is peanut .
Why do not they take Muslims into saudia
Saudi Arabia denies not giving Syrians sanctuary
Saudi Arabia has defended its efforts to aid Syrians fleeing the conflict in their country, following criticism that Gulf countries have not been taking in enough refugees since the crisis broke out there more than four years ago.
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The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Friday cited an official source in the foreign ministry as saying the kingdom wanted to make clear its role in helping refugee in light of charges it was doing nothing.
The official said it was "important to clarify these efforts with facts and numbers in response to media reports, which included false and misleading accusations about the kingdom".
None of the six states that form the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, has signed the UN convention on refugees, which has governed international law on asylum since World War Two.
But Gulf states say they have taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrians since the civil war there began in 2011, just not as refugees.
The source said Saudi Arabia had received nearly 2.5 million Syrians since the conflict erupted.
"[Saudi Arabia] was keen to not deal with them as refugees, or to put them in refugee camps, to preserve their dignity and safety, and gave them complete freedom of movement."
"[Saudi Arabia] gave whoever chose to stay in the kingdom, which are in the hundreds of thousands, proper residency ... with all the rights that are included like free health care and engaging in the workforce and education."
The kingdom has also provided about $700m in humanitarian aid to Syrians and had set up clinics in various refugee camps, the statement by the SPA said.
The official source said more than 100,000 Syrian students were receiving free education in the kingdom.
The country has also provided humanitarian aid to countries hosting Syrian refugees and through international relief organisations
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/saudi-arabia-denies-giving-syrians-sanctuary-150912050746572.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/09/12/Saudi-official-we-received-2-5-mln-Syrians-since-conflict.html
slipperychimp: Yes, this is Hijra! Spread islam by whatever means are available even using immigrants. IS wants to infiltrate Europe with terror, Saudis want to infiltrate Europe with more islam.
This news is fake from where QL is collecting the news,?? Any newspaper from Saudi reported this ??
Give that money to Germany ..
Bad ideas in wrong directions.
feeling pity..
The money would be better spent addressing the problem at source. Seems to be more about encouraging the spread of Islam than actually reducing the suffering of refugees. Anyway, good luck getting 200 new mosques through German Planning Law.
Better to provide funds to build housing and schools at present.
Because Saudi's are hypocrites - There, I said it because nobody else has the balls to do so! Yes, in one hand, they say we will help refugees so on and so forth, but in the other hand they don't want them in their own country! typical Saudi's ..... I have nothing against them but really, come on! Saudi has a big patch of land mass, and can easily construct a city for the refugees if they REALLY want to, instead what they want is build on another countries soil and let them handle the problem. Talk about brotherly loved!
Why cant they accommodate the refugees in Saudi considering its near and they have the resources to do so............because lets just be honest not all make it alive to those European countries .
Awesome Job saudi ....
Instead ..Use this money for betterment of refugees from a war torn nation ..