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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Innovating Mosques

Architecture in Europe(Flash)
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Innovating Mosque Architecture in Europe (Flash) 

Generally speaking, there are two different concepts of mosque buildings in Europe, manifested side by side: on the one hand, the sentimental, traditionalist, and Oriental design; on the other, the experimental, contemporary, and European one...Watch Flash
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Mosques in Europe-Confrontational Architecture

What will be the mosques' future design in Europe?
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Confrontational Architecture: Mosques in Europe

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What makes a building mosque? How to build an Islamic worship place suitable for the European landscape? What does the architecture of a mosque say about Muslims' integration? How visible can mosques be in non-Muslim countries? and much more. Check our materials and share your views!

In an attempt to discover how mosques look like - past, present and future trends in Islamic architecture - Euro-Muslims dedicates this space to mosques in Europe.

In the context of the tendency to see Islam and Muslims as an exceptional case, Islamic places of worship have gained more and more attention in European countries; their continuously increasing number and greater visibility made mosques more and more controversial...Read More
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

A 40 Years Struggle Towards Islam

An African-American Woman's Long Journey
Nation of Islam. Fruit of Islam. Masjed Al-Qur'an. Three different organizations that every African American should know about.

Salwa Abd-Allah Picture © pluralism.org

My name is Salwa Abd-Allah. I was born Edwina Mariea Fauntleroy to Reverend and Mrs. Jerry Cornelius Fauntleroy in Newport News, Virginia, US, in 1946. I have three brothers and I was the third of the four of us.
I have been striving to be a Muslim for approximately 40 years. I became socially aware in the 1960s in America during the Vietnam War era and the turbulent years of racial unrest as descendants of slaves in general began protesting the subtle and not-so-subtle discrimination that was spread in America at that time.
There was no voice in the mainstream media about the separatist option until the CBS TV news program aired The Hate That Hate Produced.
Having studied five years of French, I had an immature idea of how an alternative language offered greater choices.
The companionship of the Qur'an has taught me to value every command and every prohibition.
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