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During the 1980’s, Saudi Arabia spent $75 billion for the propagation of Wahhabism, funding schools, mosques, and charities throughout the Islamic world, from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Yemen, Algeria, and beyond.
According to one story, possibly apocryphal, in the 1970’s, the Islamic insurgency in Iran was initially planned using material delivered through porn-related channels because the mosques were so tightly controlled.
Angry Muslim and Christian mobs burned churches and mosques, killing dozens of people in a series of attacks and reprisals that have deepened the sectional divide between the Muslim north and the Christian south.
None seem to have an explanation for why God’s wrath was especially directed to mosques, madrassas, and schools – all of which collapsed in huge numbers.
The prevailing narrative often regards mosques and Islamic associations as spaces for radicalization, but I contend that some young people are actively turning away from these peaceful institutions.
This may be because mosques and Islamic associations find it difficult to compete with the promises of solace available through the Internet, where voices can address political issues, feed off injustices around the world, and launch calls to arms that can ultimately be murderous.
Muslims in The Netherlands are responding by opening up their mosques and reaching out to neighbors.
Churches and mosques were soon being burned in communal riots.
“There will soon be more mosques than churches,” he says, if true Europeans don’t have the guts to stand up and save Western civilization.
But Saudi Arabia – a bastion of conservatism – used its oil wealth to counter secular modernizers and any kind of reformed Islam, financing fundamentalist missionaries and conservative mosques throughout the Islamic world.
A soi disant “burkaphobe,” he has been a vocal critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy; and he has called for laws to regulate what can be preached in mosques, and to create a registry for Muslim clerics.
A new Salafi group called the Brigade of Swords of Righteousness has declared its obedience to the Warriors of God, and has warned Gazans to stay away from government buildings, security headquarters, mosques attended by Hamas leaders, and other official buildings.
In Sierra Leone, where we are part of the campaign against malaria, we mobilize churches and mosques to work in their local communities and help families use bed nets effectively to protect themselves against a disease that still kills 750,000 pregnant women and children each year in Africa.
To this end, he encourages Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, today the site of two of Islam’s most important mosques.
The idea of normalizing relations with Israel has incited fierce hostility among some imams in the mosques as well as on the Internet.
This preoccupation with the Middle East is at the heart of young Muslims’ politics in British universities, mosques, and websites.
Messianic waves from the Middle East, reaching both schools and mosques, help draw young Muslims into radicalism.
Britain’s government is beginning to recognize the danger, and is trying to clamp down on schools and mosques that spread hate.
According to the Turkish daily newspaper Taraf , to which the plot was leaked, a 5,000-page plan was drafted to create chaos in Turkey by burning mosques, downing Greek military aircraft, and carrying out mass arrests of those who opposed the military.
Why should the one region - and people - who run an orderly government, are not involved in murder, attacks on mosques, and suicide bombing of schoolchildren, be penalized?
Soroush's ideas are also spread by the informal talks he gives at Tehran mosques, gatherings that include young clerics, regime opponents, intellectuals, political independents and even government technocrats.
Shia and Sunni partisans have bombed each other’s mosques in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
Following the September 2001 attacks in New York, and again after the bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, law-enforcement authorities across Europe launched mass-arrest operations, undertook widespread surveillance of mosques, carried out stops and searches of people who appeared to be Muslim, and used other intrusive measures that disrupted the lives of – and in many cases humiliated – law-abiding European citizens.
Daesh propagandists are misusing social media in the way that their extremist predecessors and contemporaries have sometimes misused mosques – as a forum for radicalization.
Even if we accept that Israel has a legitimate reason to shut down tunnels that are used to infiltrate Palestinian commandos into Israel, this does not explain why it is necessary to bomb schools, power plants, hospitals, mosques, and densely packed civilian areas.
These aim at accommodating some specific difficulties, such as how to finance the building of Muslim mosques.
They could not build mosques; they could not perform their faith in public.
Mountains and MinaretsNew York – Switzerland has four mosques with minarets and a population of 350.000 nominal Muslims, mostly Europeans from Bosnia and Kosovo, of which about 13% regularly go to prayer.
At least 85 sharia courts are now operating in Britain’s parallel Muslim society, while the number of mosques (1,689) now almost equals the number of Anglican churches that have recently closed (1,700).
We know already about heavy attendance at the country’s mosques.
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