More Debate About Cologne’s New Central Mosque

27.07.2011 A few months before completion of Cologne’s new central mosque early 2012, the public debate about the building continues, now focusing more on its architecture and location rather than political or social issues. In previous years, critics of the mosque, such as the right-wing group Pro Köln (Pro Cologne), had campaigned to stop the…

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Mosques are ‘land grab, not a place of prayer’, says German intellectual Ralph Giordano

The building of huge mosques throughout Germany is nothing short of a “a bid for power and influence, a land grab”, according to Ralph Giordano, 85, the German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, in an interview with The Times that is likely to stir Muslim anger. The comments from Mr Giordano came as the Muslim…

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