By Cuneyt Karadag</p> <p>BERLIN (AA) – Germany wants to regulate foreign donations to the country’s mosques to prevent the spread of fundamentalist ideologies, a local daily said Thursday.</p> <p>The federal government has asked Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries to notify the Foreign Office prior to making any donations or government grants, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported.</p> <p>The newspaper said German intelligence agencies will scrutinize the senders and recipients of the funds.</p> <p>It said Germany is also concerned about the radicalization of refugees who receive financial aid from Saudi Arabia in particular.</p> <p>Germany cited a confidential report by a working group at the Terrorism Defense Center in Berlin for the move.</p> <p>In 2015, the group decided to more closely monitor the "missionary activities" of the Gulf states in response to the refugee crisis.

