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: The Church may not have applied but it's not
: clear whether the oral information Father
: Fogelqvist received was being declined to
: ring the bells or that an application had
: been made.
:
: If the 'oral information' was a 'decline to
: ring the bells', why would Father Fogelqvist
: state that he should have 'looked more
: closely' and that he 'regrets' it?
Meaning he should have "looked more closely" that an application had been made and "regrets" that, in the event that an application wasn't made, the impression was given otherwise.
: The latter translation makes more sense in
: context, that is, he had received word that
: application(s) had been made. When he
: 'looked more closely' he found that wasn't
: the case. That's why he 'regrets' it.
:
There was still oral information which led to Church deciding not to pursue the bell ringing permission on the basis it would be declined...
"There was verbal discouragement from one of the municipality's representatives in 1993. So the story hasn't changed in that regard: we got negative communication from the municipality to not continue with the application. So we let the whole thing go, and as a result there has been the view in the parish that the municipality gave a negative to bell-ringing,"
: For further verification see:
: https://www.thelocal.se/20180522/swedish-town-that-approved-a-mosques-calls-to-prayer-did-not-reject-church-bells-permit
: .
:
: Father Fogelqvist goes to the nub of the
: matter: Asked if he regrets how the saga has
: played out, Fogelqvist pointed out that he
: had not made a link between his original
: understanding of the situation and the
: granting of a permit to the mosque , but
: rather that media outlets were responsible
: for making that leap. Again, this has all
: the hallmarks of a political beat up in the
: context of a national election. Poor Father
: Fogelqvist was caught in the middle!
:
: Father Fogelqvist goes on: "We've even
: been in contact with Muslim groups here and
: explained we weren't interested in making
: this something negative about Muslims ...
Not entirely sure it's a political beat up. The mosque had already been the centre of considerable controversy before the bells issue with claims they had posted extremist messages to social media.
: Again, please let us know if the Catholic
: News Agency publishes a clarification.
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