Benito Mussolini wanted to build a mosque in Italy

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After Italy invaded and occupied Albania, dictator Benito Mussolini proposed building a large mosque in Rome in order to win the sympathy of Albanian Islamists, although the Vatican was opposed and nothing came of it in the end. Mussolini argued that it was necessary to build a mosque in Rome to meet the spiritual needs of Italian Islamists. However, the Catholic Church was against Mussolini's idea, as we can see from the fact that the apostolic nuncio to Italy Francesco Borgongini rushed to protest against this with the chancellor Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law. Borgongini expressed to Ciano his firm opposition to the construction of a mosque in Rome, pointing out that in his opinion it would have represented “a wound to Christian and Catholic sentiment in us and throughout the world”.
REFERENCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Albania
https://www.ilgiornale.it/news..../cultura/cos-mussoli