SPIEGEL ONLINE
- October 19, 2010
The leaders of Moscow's 1.5 million strong Muslim community say they desperately need more places of worship. But a plan to build a new mosque has run into local opposition which is being fuelled by nationalists calling for a "clean Moscow" without Muslims and foreigners. By Maxim Kireev in Moscow more...
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- September 17, 2010
What to do if you're too busy to make it to Friday prayers? An imam in France has come up with just the thing: a portable mosque. There are models for all price ranges, from basic to deluxe. more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- July 14, 2010
Reinhard Werner doesn't trust Islam. The 70-year-old German is part of a group which keeps tabs on mosques across Germany, monitoring them for what he calls an "intolerant Islam of terror." Over the years, he has gained a certain amount of notoriety. By Hauke Goos more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- March 26, 2010
Delegates from right-wing populist parties from across Europe are descending on Germany this weekend for a conference looking into the possibility of an EU-wide minaret ban. The hosts, an anti-Muslim German group, hope to use the gathering as a springboard to success in local elections. By Charles Hawley in Berlin more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- February 05, 2010
A small Muslim community in a western German town would like to build a minaret on its mosque. But the plan has triggered passionate opposition from locals, many of whom rely on rhetoric from the extreme right in railing against the "symbol of Islam's quest for power." more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- December 17, 2009
Ground Zero is just down the road, a global symbol of Islamist violence. But in a half-destroyed building in Lower Manhattan, a new Muslim place of worship has opened. The founders hope it can help heal the wound opened by Sept. 11 -- around the corner from where the attacks took place. By Marc Pitzke in New York more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- December 15, 2009
Just weeks after Swiss voters banned minarets in the country, a German right-wing group is hoping to use a new European Union law to hold a minaret referendum across the 27 member bloc. more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- December 03, 2009
Us against them. That is how Europe's right wing sees the Swiss ban on minarets. After all, so goes the logic, Christians in the Muslim world aren't doing any better. But the argument is the height of intellectual laziness. The two groups simply cannot be compared. By Yassin Musharbash more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- October 27, 2008
The biggest mosque in Germany opened in the city of Duisburg on Sunday and has already become a symbol of successful integration. Unlike other mosque projects in Germany, there was virtually no protest from the local community. By Carolin Jenkner in Duisburg more...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
- October 17, 2008
After two years of construction and recurrent protest from locals, Eastern Germany's first mosque celebrated its official opening in Berlin. Crowds of some 150 people turned up to protest -- fewer than expected. By Ferda Ataman and Katharina Peters in Berlin more...
