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German State Security Monitors 90 Mosques

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 3, 2016 | World

A few days after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) demanded that mosques in Germany are monitored, the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution revealed that the office already monitors around 90...

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Hassani Abdelhadi, the imam of Attadamoun Mosque, attends the Friday prayer at the mosque in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek, in Brussels, Belgium, Picture taken November 20. To match Insight- REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Belgium Grants Permits to 10 New Mosques to Fight Extremist Ideology

by Abdullah Mustafa and Majed Al Khatib | May 3, 2016 | World

Brussels, Cologne – The Ministry of Justice in Belgium confirmed that it is arranging to grant permits for establishing a number of mosques, a measure taken in line with the governmental plan for confronting extremist ideology. The Muslim Executive of Belgium...

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Artists impression of the planned Cambridge Mosque (Cambridge Mosque Project)

Europe’s first “Eco-Mosque” to open in Cambridge

by Najlaa Habriri | Sep 29, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—“Every Mosque or building built by a Muslim should be ‘green,’ that is, friendly to the environment,” says Baraka Khan, the 23-year-old Cambridge University student who is raising funds for a project to build Europe’s first ecologically...

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File photo of a Riyadh mosque. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Saudi Arabia promotes eco-friendly mosques

by Eman Al-Khattaf | Mar 21, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia is in the planning stages of making more than 90,000 mosques across the Kingdom more eco-friendly, utilizing solar and other renewable sources of energy as part of a bid to put green building on the national stage. The initiative...

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Supporters of the Shi’ite al-Houthi rebel group shout slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa. (R)

Houthis take control of several Salafi mosques

by Arafat Madabish | May 12, 2013 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Armed confrontations erupted in the eastern and northern regions of Yemen, as Houthi militias took control of a number of mosques in the city of Sa’dah. According to a local source who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on the condition of...