Over 180 Mosques planned: “Not in My Backyard, Say an Increasing Number of Germans”
Jochen Bölsche has this lengthy article in Spiegel Online. It reports:
The planned construction of over 180 mosques in Germany is mobilizing right-wing xenophobes but also an increasing number of leftist critics. They fear the Muslim places of worship will facilitate the establishment of a completely parallel society . . .
Ill will over mosques like the one being built in Cologne is spreading rapidly throughout Germany, often to the surprise of local politicians. For a long time the establishment of Muslim prayer rooms provoked little protest, housed as they were mostly in residential buildings, shops and back courtyards. Recently, though, there has been an increasing number of acts of protest, some violent. Molotov cocktails were thrown through mosque windows in the Bavarian town of Lauingen; Christians set protest crosses inscribed with “Terra christiana est,” or this is Christian land, on the grounds of a mosque in Hanover; and construction trailers went up in flames in the Berlin district of Pankow.
The anti-Islam protest movement has also begun to spill over into city politics . . . He says there is an “obviously large-scale initiative” on the part of Islamic organizations to show their presence in as high-profile a way as possible and in as many places as possible . . .
He says there is an “obviously large-scale initiative” on the part of Islamic organizations to show their presence in as high-profile a way as possible and in as many places as possible. No fewer than 184 new mosques, some with domes and minarets, are currently being built or planned throughout Germany. That’s considerably more than the 163 existing traditional mosques (along with around 2,600 prayer rooms mostly hidden within secular buildings).
And that appears to be only the start of an expected wider European mosque-building boom . . .
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The news is troubling indeed but the One True God in Christ has promised that He will build His church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Regardless of how it all appears from our perspective, I trust Him, unto whom someday every knee shall bow. It is a lamentable fact that Europe has forsaken its Judeo-Christian roots and has become totally secular. As a consequence, a spiritual vacuum has been created which the evil, idolatrous religion of Islam has been filling up. Europe as well as any nation who forsakes the One True God in Christ will suffer judgment, not only in this life but, far worse, in the life to come. The U.S. is headed that way as well thanks to groups like the ACLU and Citizens United for Separation of Church and State and other secular progressives. What must be done to reclaim the nations for Christ? Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.