Mosques In Nation States
The point is that, being a nation state, a government does not need to pay for any places of worship. But they can’t favor one religion over another by paying for one religion’s places of worship and not the other. In western countries, governments do not pay for any religion’s places of worship. They do, however, provide tax benefits to such institutions, but they do it for all religions equally. Also western countries do not stop anyone from building mosques anywhere. It just so happens that wherever there’s a mosque, Muslim community moves in to those neighborhoods so that going to mosques is more convenient for them.