From this side of the pond, where the government is ... in practice secular.

Um. So religion isn't an issue in public life at all in the US?

Second, the potential conflict is that if Turkey is pressured to reduce her support for Is

Who's asking Turkey to?

My view is that adding such a huge new member to the EU will cause big changes on both sides--and Europe is not officially admitting it.

Oh no, not change. How will we survive? Of course, adding 12 new members hasn't changed a thing.

Will the EU church-supporting fund

What are you talking about? Is it raining strawmen where you are or something? If there are mosques of architectural merit that need help then they'll fall under that sort of scheme.