France moves to ban the burqua while allowing a super mosque to be built

If there is any example of Europe under seige from Islam and Muslim immigration, then this mega-mosque story is it. France has taken steps to ban the burqua while allowing a gigantic mosque to be built. This is the absolute cave in that Islam seeks to obtain. They will gladly excahnge a ban on the burqua for allowance of this mosque to be built. The Muslims may riot, complain they are the victims of horrible discrimination and persecution as they always do but a mosque such as this one is a victory for Islam. Europe can brag about how tolerate it is by allowing such a wide diversity of cultures, religions, being open to diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness. Native Europeans are in danger of being overrun by Islam. In fact, it may already be too late. The highest birth rate in many European countries is Muslims at a ratio of 8-1. Native European birth rates are well below the rate necessary to sustain the population they have today. As more mosques conaminate Europe, and more Muslims flood the continent, problems with Islam will continue to escalate. Either Europe will fall to Islam or
leaders like the heroic Geert Wilders, Anders Gravers and others will lead Europe back from the brink of returning to the stone age of the 7th century of Islam.

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France makes way for Grand Mosque

AFP: MARSEILLE, France — French Muslims celebrated Thursday when work began to build the country's biggest mosque in the southern port city of Marseille, a potent symbol of Islam's place in modern France.

Moves by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government to ban the full-face veil have raised tensions between France's political class and its five million strong Islamic minority, with many Muslims feeling stigmatised.

But Muslim and government leaders alike hope that work on the Grande Mosque will serve to bind the city together and serve as a community anchor.

Marseille is France's second city and home to 250,000 Muslims, many of whom are currently obliged to perform their rites in makeshift prayer houses in basements, rented rooms and dingy garages to worship.

With a minaret soaring 25 metres (82 feet) high, the Grand Mosque will hold up to 7,000 people in its prayer room and the complex will also boast a Koranic school, library, restaurant and tea room when it opens in 2012.

Muslims in Marseille have long campaigned for a mega-mosque as a prominent gathering place that would bring Islam out of the basements and allow it to thrive under the Mediterranean sun.

The turning point came in 2001 when Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin, a member of Sarkozy's right-wing party, threw his weight behind the project, overriding objections from the far-right.

Like Sarkozy, Gaudin sees the new mosque as a way to help French Muslims integrate into the mainstream and foster a form of moderate, modern Islam that shuns symbols of exclusion like the full-face burqa and niqab veils.

"The construction of this Grand Mosque will serve as a showcase for Marseille's Muslims to promote the true face of Islam, an enlightened Islam," said Mohamed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim faith.

After years of delays, the project still faces hurdles to raise the full 22 million euros (27 million dollars) needed to finance it.

Nourredine Cheikh, an Algerian-born businessman and president of the association leading the campaign for the mosque, said his group is hoping for big donations from north African countries, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.

Among the dozen diplomats who attended the ceremony, Algerian Ambassador Missoum Sbih said Muslims in Marseille "could not do without a dignified place of worship" in France, "Europe's number one Muslim country."

Algeria will sit with other donor countries to work out financing, he said.

The grand mosque will be built in the Saint-Louis area of Marseille, an ethnically mixed neighbourhood that suffers high unemployment and poverty.

Home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, France has for years been debating how far it is willing to go to accommodate the practice of Islam, now the country's second religion, into every day secular life.

Soon after Switzerland voted to ban minaret construction last year, Sarkozy warned French Muslims to "avoid ostentation" in the practice of their religion and he has declared the face-covering veil "not welcome" in France.

With parliament now set to debate a bill that would bar women from wearing the full Islamic veil, Muslim leaders worry about a surge of Islamophobia.

Last month, gunmen sprayed bullets across the facade of the Arrahma mosque in Istres, a town a few dozen kilometres from Marseille, raising alarm among Muslims.

Nadia Houte, a 31-year-old teacher, said the mosque would bring Muslims together and promote a positive image of Islam.

"We are Muslims, not fundamentalists," she said. "The burqa doesn't interest me. This has nothing to do with me."

There will be no blaring call to prayer from the Grand Mosque's minaret to disturb non-Muslim neighbours, but simply a blue light that will flash five times a day to summon the Marseille faithful to prayer.

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Islam is spreading throughout Europe and Germany is no exception.

Here is a post that I found at DownEast Blog. I have posted a couple of items from him in the past. I like DE because this site gives great examples of how Islam is spreading all across Europe. Islam does this in a dominate fashion, made to intimidate the local population and to make them feel inferior. This is precisely how Islam operates. To dominate the people and strip them of their individuality and thoughts. Coming to America soon, with the Blessing of Imam Obama and his mullahs from the Swamp.
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GERMANY: MUEZZIN CALL TO PRAYER FROM MINARET BECOMING MORE AND MORE COMMON.

Downeastblog

The German town of Rendsburg [in northern Schleswig-Holstein, on the Kiel Canal - MFBB] has authorised the call to prayer via loudspeaker of a muezzin from a minaret of Rendsburgs mosque, despite the protests of a part of the population, thus announced on Tuesday Rendsburgs Social Democrat mayor, Andreas Breitner.

The project, defended by the Islamic Centre, which is running the mosque, had provoked lively protests from part of the population, which focused on the nuisance caused by the call to prayer, launched five times a day to invite the faithful to prayer. A petition of the group "No Public Call to Prayer" had gathered 800 signatures.

However, according to the mayor, a study on the limits beyond which noise levels would become troublesome had shown that the public calls to prayer would not exceed 40 decibels, which corresponds with a radio or bird cries [said the mayor].

"Skin color, one's origin, gender or different religions do not play a role (in this kind of decisions). And it's good like that", explained the mayor.

The mosque of this town of more than 28,000 inhabitants, situated 100 kilometers from Hamburg, is the biggest one in Schleswig-Holstein, with two 26m high minarets. It was inuagurated in the fall of 2009."

The mosque at Rendsburg

More here.

And here's a short video:



One party which absolutely welcomed the decision to allow the muezzin's call were the Rendsburger Gruene, the Greens. While it is certainly true that all over Europe, the greatest facilitators of islamization are socialists, the greens show barely less enthusiasm - perhaps they are so enamored with islam because they share with it the same color. It is no coincidence that the National Chairman of the German Greens is... a Turk and self-described "secular muslim", Cem Ozdemir. But perhaps the most striking case in point of the affiliation between greens and muslims remains a 2008 incident involving a Green Party spokesperson in Hause, a district of Frankfurt, central Germany. The district there was already home to two mosques, and yet another muslim association wanted to erect a third one, including a muslim community center... this within a 400-meter radius of the other two. Estimated cost: €3 million. When indigenous Germans protested at a meeting concerning the building plans that "It wouldn't feel like home anymore if more come here", the Green Party spokeswoman AND Frankurts Integration Official (!!!), Nargess Eskandari-Gruenberg, blasted back that:

"40 percent of the city's population are immigrants. "If that doesn't suit you," she said, "then you need to move somewhere else."


Oh yeah, never mind her liberal western looks. It's all taqiyyah you know.


Sadly, these are no isolated cases. Currently, 184 new mosques are being built and/or planned throughout Germany. That's basically, all of a sudden, a 115% increase over the existing 163 mosques [apart from that, there are also an estimated 2,600 prayer rooms - MFBB].

Powerful organizations behind this sudden building frenzy are DITIB and Ahmadiyya. DITIB is actually a branch of the Turkish Ministry of Religious Affairs, and is on its maps already dividing up Germany in religious entities not unlike Christian dioceses. Ahmadiyya is an organization totally apart from DITIB, but no less ambitious, since it has introduced a "100 Mosque Plan" - of which 25% has already been completed!

But back to our Rendsburger muezzin. If the gullible mayor thinks that the call to prayer won't exceed 40 decibels, I have another bridge across the Kiel Canal to sell him. The naivete of those people is really striking, especially in light of the undisputable fact that muslims don't give a jolt about kafir laws. Time and again, muslims do not honor their part of the bargain. Building perscriptions are violated, payment deadlines aren't met, and agreed on transparancy is not provided. Some examples:



"Under the pretext of religious privilege, the DITIB strategists in Cologne have in truth claimed the rights to a commercial center that also happens to include the opportunity to pray. A Muslim community in Berlin's Neukölln district also wanted to take its cue from Cologne and construct an immense commercial and cultural center. But at least the planners there, as the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recognized, only described the structure as being a "semi-mosque."


That plan, however, failed in the face of the strong opposition of Deputy Mayor and District Councilwoman Stefanie Vogelsang of the conservative Christian Democrats. Her awareness of the issue had been heightened by a conflict with DITIB a few years earlier, when the organization deliberately violated its building permits during the construction of a new mosque in the same neighborhood.


By the time construction had been completed, the mosque's two minarets rose 37 meters into the Berlin skyline rather than the approved 28 meters and the dome measured around 22 meters instead of the permitted 18. For Vogelsang that was cause enough to slap the Muslim congregation with the highest fine ever imposed in her district, €100,000. "Whoever lives here, whoever builds here, needs to follow our laws," she said"...."


And so on and so on and so on...

So, if you think this guy, Hasan Unsal, the muezzin of the Rendsburg mosque...

... will stick to the 40 decibel limit when trying to wake up his co-religionists at five in the morning... you're probably one of those people who are still convinced the Himalaya's glaciers will all be gone by 2035. Meanwhile...

Mosque in Duisburg, in the Ruhr area

The "Tabakmoschee" in Dresden

The planned Sendlinger mosque in Muenchen

"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our
bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...Reccep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish
Prime Minister.


And so in Germany an army of 4 million mainly Turkish muslims, up from a couple of tens of thousands one hundred years ago, is building their barracks, with domes like helmets and minarets like bayonets, although they rather strike me as somewhat more modern weaponry. Meanwhile, the pathetic remnant of 200,000 Christians in Turkey itself, down from several million one hundred years ago, is not allowed to build churches. A telling statistic is provided by the Churches of the Byzantine rite, of which there were twenty-nine. Their current state: 4 are in ruins, 3 have been converted into museums, 15 have been converted into a mosques, one has been completely demolished and a new mosque has been built on top. In six of them, Christian mass is still being held. But for how long?

One more thing.

The mayor of Rendsburg, Andreas Breitner, is a member of the SPD, the German socialists.

But. I suspect. That you suspected that already.

DownEastBlog

Islamic demographics and Europe. Mark Steyn's "America Alone" is unfolding before our eyes

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has written an excellent article on the
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership between the European Union and Islamic
states in the Middle East. Can one say R.I P. Europe? If you do not think
this can happen here in the States, you are badly mistaken. The resident
mullah in the White House has plans for this country that will try to
place a mosque on every corner and force every women to wear a body bag.

The Last Nail In Europe's Coffin
Pamela Geller


"Why would Europe get involved again with such evil and simultaneously take in such a diabolical and disastrous immigration bomb? And that's what this is. Geert Wilders said it in a speech at Columbia University in October 2009: "Make no mistake: Islam has always attempted to conquer Europe. Spain fell in the 8th century. Constantinople fell in the 15th century. Vienna and Poland were threatened, and now, in the 21st century, Islam is trying again. This time not with military armies, but through migration and demography."

In 1970 a memorial was erected just inside the main entrance with

 the names of all those who were forcibly taken from Sulzburg.

Yes, this is in memory to all those taken from Sulzburg by

 the Nazis. Is this the fate of Europe as we once knew it?

"Partnership? More like a suicide pact. Fifty million laborers with families. The effects on European civilization, and on Europe's relationship with the United States, are all too easy to imagine. And the U.S.-Muslim engagement document, the blueprint for the Obama administration's relationship with Muslim countries, parallels these plans. It contains the same "cross-culturalization" plans that are discussed and recommended in the Euro-Med partnership. In other words, it's a charter for our dhimmitude, our subservience to Islamic law."


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Hat tip: American Thinker