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May 17, 2012
Published: 7 Nov 09 13:56 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091107-23099.html
The symbolic first stone was laid for one of Europe’s largest mosques at ceremony in Cologne on Saturday after years of controversy dividing the city’s residents.
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being built. Piper1's list is not exactly of free societies and even if the "Christian Church" says that it just want's to help the poor they don't want to know.
Cologne is not the Vatican (wrt building a church in Mekkah for example), and the oldest church in the history is built in Syria. There are famous churches spreading all around the Arabic world (where Christianity came from).
I am all in all against building public and collective worship monuments anyhow, which are nothing but brain washing centers and out-of-community gangs (specially mosques).
But one should be careful in remembering that in a free democratic society one should allow for personal freedom while keeping respect with the constitution and law.
@LAURA EX-MUS, building a mosque will still not allow muslim men to break the law (beating their wives, raping them, inheritance laws...) except unfortunately if the women themselves accept this. So as long as Muslim women don't rise up and fight for their rights and independence, they will always be suppressed. They should take advantage of being in a free strong society where they can get help if they ask for it.
I think that it looks cool and refreshing but that's just my personal opinion and others may disagree.If anyone objects to what is done or preached in the mosque, then they should be campaigning against that activity and not against the building.
LAURA EX-MUS, there are aspects of almost every religion that are hostile to women. For example women are far less free to divorce in Judaism than in Islam, and what are the odds of the next Pope being a woman? That does not excuse everything that is preached in Islam, just that every other religion should face the same scrutiny.
Anyway, I think it looks cool!
Just for your information, I have grown up even listening to the bells of churches ringing right in the cities of Pakistan. Its not forbidden there for churches to keep the sound of bells inside as its here for mosques.... :) Even being muslim nobody from my surroundings objected that.
@Laura-Exmus: I simply would like to say you also might be a bit less informed about the topic. Did you read Quran complete and urself? Did you ever read how Prophet Mohammed lived and acted?.
This is about "PC"-induced grandiosity. There are plenty of mosques around Germany, but the point here is that this is going to be "one of Europe?s largest mosques"...
So, the question is: why here? who's idea was this, and what are they trying to prove? long-term political consequences?