DW: Mosque construction continues with community support: Ahmadi Muslim leader
Mosque construction projects in two eastern German cities have broad community support despite far-right hostility, according to Ahmadi Muslims. Their German chairman describes radical Islam as a “common enemy.”
The chairman of 45,000 Ahmadi Muslims in Germany, Abdullah Uwe Wagishauser, told “Die Welt” newspaper Wednesday that “all democratic parties are on our side – except the AfD.”
His remarks followed a verbal clash in the media on Monday between leaders of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has an anti-Islam manifesto, and Germany’s Central Council of Muslims.
Wagishauser, 66, who was born into a Christian family in Germany but converted to Islam in his youth, and has headed Germany’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat community for 32 years, said a mosque that opened in Berlin’s eastern Pankow district in 2008 – despite neo-Nazi protests – had become a “successful integration project.”
“Today the opposite has occurred to what our opponents once prophesied. The building looks attractive; there is a greened area, a playground that’s keenly used by the neighbors, the property prices in the vicinity have risen; there is no traffic chaos,” he said.
The building application for the planned Leipzig mosque would be submitted in the coming days, added Wagishauser, whose remarks coincided with a large Catholic gathering in Leipzig this week.
Lots of support
“We’ve received a lot of support from the population,” he added, citing the open society stance of Mayor Burkhard Jung of the center-left Social Democrats and a student campaign using cloth carry bags printed with an image of the mosque.
Categories: Germany, Intra-Religious Tolerance, ISLAM, The Muslim Times
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