SAUDI Arabian authorities have come under fire after it said it would build 200 mosques to give Syrian refugees in Germany a place to pray but would not give them a place to stay.
Saudi King Salman, who came to the throne of the oil-rich nation earlier this year, is planningto fund places of worship despite not giving refugees asylum in his country because it is feared they could upset his absolute rule.
Centre-right politicians in Germany have lined up to attack the king, who came to the throne in January this year.
Andreas Scheuer, general secretary of the CSU party in Bavaria which is Chancellor Angela Merkel's ally in the state, called the offer 'cynical' given that the Kingdom is making thousands of refugees of its own in its military campaign in Yemen.
He said: "No, it is more than cynical. This is no Muslim Brotherhood. Where is the solidarity in the Arab world?"
Stephan Mayer, the domestic policy spokesman of both the CSU and Merkel's CDU in parliament in Berlin, also criticised the plans, adding: "Germany does not need a cash donation to build 200 mosques but solidarity with the refugees."
Germany is expected to take in more people from the Syrian refugee crisis than any other European nation, with 800,000 expected to arrive there this year.
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