Mosques
U.S GROUND ZERO MOSQUE ROW
USA plunged recently into an emotional-constitutional row over a permit, given by the authorities in New York, to build an Islamic cultural center, which includes also a swimming pool and an internal Mosque. Continue reading
TAIBA MOSQUE IN HAMBURG, LINKED TO 9/11, CLOSED
German police, on Monday 08/09/2010, closed the Taiba Mosque that had been a meeting place for Hamburg Cell and The 9/11 conspirators in 2001. Continue reading
QUEENS’S MASJID [MOSQUE] AL-FATIMA
In the early 90s' Aqeel Khan, a member of the relative moderate Hizb-ut-Tahrir, was one of the founders of the Islamic Center of Queens, New York, also known as Masjid al-Fatima. Continue reading
LAL-MOSQUE CRISiS
The (red) Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, is a very large compound. The compound contains the Mosque, two madrassas (Islamic schools), dormitories and offices. About 5,000 persons are working, praying and learning in the Lal Mosque. Continue reading
FINSBURY PARK MOSQUE
Finsbury Park Mosque is located in Northern London, UK. It was built in 1990 but changed radically at the early 2000 when Abu Hamza al-Masri was appointed the Imam of the Mosque. He was considered a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Abu Hamza al-Masri preached a very radical interpretation of Islam and gathered around him a group of local young frustrated Muslims. Continue reading
AL-FAROOK MOSQUE
Al Farook Mosque in Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York was a center to Global Jihad cell from 1987. Continue reading