An influential politician from Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party says all mosques in Germany should be subject to state supervision in light of what he sees as a threat from extreme Muslims. <br /><br /> Volker Kauder, who heads the conservative parliamentary grouping in Germany’s lower house, used his twitter account air his views on controlling mosques and radical imams. <br /><br /> “Wir leben in einem Staat, in dem die Religion nicht über dem Staat steht, sondern umgekehrt” – #Kauder im Interview https://t.co/rHb1eEe46i— CDU/CSU (@cducsubt) 29. April 2016<br /><br /> That drew an immediate response from some critics of the idea. <br />Unrealistic and useless was the view of the Die Welt newspaper.<br /><br /> Moscheen in Deutschland unter staatlicher Kontrolle? Unrealistisch und überflüssig. Kommentar: https://t.co/hifO0C5jah #Moscheenkontrolle— NDR Info (@NDRinfo) 29. April 2016<br /><br /> But Kauder says that Germany was constituted as a secular state and that sermons delivered in some mosques donot conform with that concept.<br /><br /> The
