On its X account, La Derecha Diario spread the news of the inauguration of a mosque in the Buenos Aires district of Olavarría. In a biased manner and with a certain bias, the portal run by Fernando Cerimedo and Javier Negre published: “ALERT: Muslims opened a new Islamic mosque in Argentina, the first in the municipality of Olavarría.”
The message from the libertarian media was accompanied with an image of the Muslim temple along with an epigraph that described: “Alert for the expansion of Islamism: new mosque in Olavarría.” Among the comments that followed the tweet, attention was drawn to Marcos Galperin. Given the news, the founder of Mercado Libre said: “We are screwed!”
As if that were not enough, the same journalistic medium insisted, once again, on communicating the opening of the religious site in the municipality governed by the Peronist. Maximilian Wesner. “TERM NEWS: Muslims opened the first Islamic mosque in the Buenos Aires municipality of Olavarría, raising alarms among well-to-do Argentines,” he headlined on this second opportunity.
Although several users identified with mileism began to join, giving their opinion along the same lines as the Argentine billionaire, the truth is that the neighborhood community of the municipality received the news very well. “The building has its interior finished with the beautiful austerity that identifies Muslim constructions and the decoration of the front is found in the final sections,” they described from a local television channel.
“The idea of building a mosque in Olavarría is old. We Muslims have been here for sixteen years, I am a native of here and we brought Islam in March 2010,” he explained. Shaykh Yusuf a reference for the project, and added: “In Olavarría there are native surnames from Arab countries that are called Catholic because they are Catholic, but when their ancestors emigrated they were Muslims who had to convert to Catholicism so that they are not so different and so that they are not despised in society.”
According to historical records, in 1914, Lebanese Syrian families began to settle in this Buenos Aires town. Even in 1920 they created the “Lebanon-Arab Mutual Aid Society” which in 1929 was renamed “Lebanon-Syrian Mutual Aid Society”. Similar entities created all migrant communities throughout Argentina.
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