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September 30, 2006

Germany: Mobile Mosque Takes Off

Looking like a cross between a traditional Gypsy caravan and a whelk stall on the Blackpool sea-front, the Islamobil is a traveling mosque. Yesterday, the mosque was described in the UK Daily Mail, but detailed accounts of the mosque on wheels can be found on Deutsche Welle and der Spiegel.

Firstly, why should a mosque on wheels exist? It is not, it appears, like a mobile library, catering to isolated Muslims in outlying communities. It is used to promote Islam in non-Muslim communities in Germany, which may be why it has something of a fairground appearance. When the moving mosque comes to town, Islamic music blares from its loudspeakers, so that it never fails to get noticed.

It has two fake minarets which extend and retract like lipstick applicators, and a blue and white dome, surmounted by a golden crescent. The Islamobil has fake pillars and arches on its extrerior, and a stage extends from one side when it is stationary.

Once attracted, the infidels are lured inside, where computer monitors give promotional information about Islam, which is continued via panels on the walls. Ceiling-mounted lights are said to give the Islamobil's interior a "cool, comfortable atmosphere". The "information" is skewed with a strong bias - no mention of killing infidels, or references to Islam's permission for wife beating (Sura 4:34).

Instead, the panels spread disinformation. One states "The Koran says that men and women are equal before God. In some parts of the Muslim world, women aren't treated the way Muslim teachings demand. But that's a matter of culturally specific customs." No mention of a woman's testimony in a sharia court being worth half that of a man, of course.

Another panel reads: "What does Islam have to say about war? The expression 'jihad,' often misunderstood and overused, literally means 'total commitment,' not 'holy war'."

Jihad has often been said to mean "struggle", which conjures to mind that famous book by Hitler, Mein Kampf, which meant the same thing.

Der Spiegel stated: "There are no struggles, no problems, no September 11, 2001 attacks in the Islamobile. The discord and conflict of recent years never make an appearance."

The idea for this garish monstrosity was hatched by a group of young Muslims from Brühl near Cologne in 2001. Built by "Islam Info" for the princely sum of 250,000 Euros ($317,500), this summer, the Islamobil has been trundling from town to town in the German heartland, hauled along behind a truck.

The current showman who invites gullible Westerners into his palace of disinformation is Öczan Kuri. He is quoted as saying: "We've almost forgotten about September 11. We have to look forward. We're hopeful."

As well as being the mobile mosque's main "educator", Kuri belongs to the organization Milli Gorus which has thousands of members in Germany. Milli Gorus' Turkish name means "national vision". This group has previously been described by Verfassungsschutz, the domestic security agency, as a "foreign extremist organization". In 1996, a court in Hamburg described the group as a "threat to the democratic order in Germany". The security services are still monitoring Milli Gorus.

Milli Gorus opposes integration into European society. We reported earlier this month that one Milli Gorus imam, Yakup Tasci, told his congregation: "Those Germans, those atheists, they don't shave their armpits. Their sweat spreads evil smells, they stink. They are atheists, what good do they do to us? And since they are unbelievers, in the afterlife they can only burn in hell."

During the World Cup (June 9 to July 9), the security services kept Milli Gorus under strict observation, lest any of their members attempted terror attacks. In Holland and Germany, the group controls 500 mosques.

One of the individuals who founded the Islamobil, Gülüzar Keskin, said: "First we established an organization with the goal of informing Germans about Islam. Then we thought it would be a very good and practical idea to create a mobile mosque and travel around Germany in it."

"For us it was important to be provocative," he said. "We wanted to confront people directly and say either inform yourself or don't."

That would be good, if the information was not merely propaganda. Keslin claimed: "Many visitors have already asked us if we have addresses for mosques nearby, so that they can get more information about Islam."

Recently in Italy, according to AGI News Agency, in the town of Gallarate, the local mosque was closed down because it contravened building regulations. The Mayor, Nicola Mucci, agreed with Muslim community leaders to install a mobile mosque in an area near the Marinai d'Italia Park. The mobile mosque, which hopefully is not like the carnival crate used in Germany, will be present throughout Ramadan.

I have a fear that mobile mosques may become more common in the future.....

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 30, 2006 2:01 AM

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