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May 17, 2012
Published: 25 Oct 09 11:12 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091025-22801.html
Unknown vandals defaced a mosque with animal blood in the Bavarian town of Elsenfeld on Saturday. The blood was discovered by children on their way to Koran studies.
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Muslims, on the hand hand, must make sure that these places of worship are accessible to both women and men and any body interested to attend. Women should not be separated when in mosques. and no hate sermons are allowed.
Just an opinion.
As for the act of vandalism I totally condemn it. Attacking a "martyr" only helps him/her in his/her purpose.
@nooraza, your comment really cracked me up. Getting a wee bit gealous are we? The Jews are "the chosen" one right? Their holocaust is the most important in humankind's history right?
Present-day Muslims seem to be stubborn about their identity, but since they don't have all the advantages Jews have shown (and the Holocaust, right), so there is little sympathy and hence little respect to them. It would be very advantageous to the Muslim population in Europe if they just stepped out of their shell and opened to us, but that I think is too much to ask.
However the guy above is right.... unfortunately we Muslims are still in decadence. The great problem of Germany is that it imported only low-skilled labour from Turkey and other countries, which are uneducated, and in fact don't know enough about their own religion, other than tradition, let alone to explain it to someone. In Britain, from what I know, is a very different situation with Pakistanies, they all speak English and they are educated just the same as English.
Now this is one point where German and French as well could learn a lot. Instead of banning the teachers and/or pupils with headscarvs (in Germany and France), English found even the uniforms for police force with a headscarf and even a police bage without the cross.... Want the integration?! Then do something about it!
So mobiusro, you think the extremely brutal and tragic Jewish Holocaust, unprecedented and most important in history, is funny is it? By the way, I was a Muslim; thank Christ now for my enlightement , although I would struggle for a reformed Islam (not Dark Age Arabic-style/led one including the primitive Arabic-style veiling of women/girls) due to my family still being Muslims, for true justice and love sake! Yes, the Jews were chosen to be saved by God in earlier history due to them being continously oppressed and enslaved throughout centuries, whether by Arabs, including by the Pharaohs, or the Romans! God finally heard their prayer - just like God saved them from the evil Holocaust! And I agree with LMB222; stop victimizing yourself pathetically by balming everyone else except your Dark Age cultural tradition - a Reformed Islam in this century, finally, as in Christianity long ago in 1500s, would be the just solution!