GERMANY: DISTRICT CENTER IN AACHEN
RENAMED MOSQUE SQUARE
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A harbinger of things to come. Thanks to Angela Merkel, there will soon be many mosque squares, and very many new mosques, in Germany. And that’s great, right? We will all march together into the glorious multicultural future, won’t we? Well, Merkel apparently assumes we will, but there is no doubt that at least some of the Muslims she has welcomed harbor supremacist, authoritarian beliefs that will inevitably cause conflict in Germany in the future. But never mind: the only people calling attention to that eventuality are greasy Islamophobes.“District center in Germany’s Aachen renamed Mosque Square,” Daily Sabah, June 26, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):The name of the square in Eilendorf district of the western German city of Aachen has been changed to “Moscheeplatz (Mosque Square)” with a ceremony held on Tuesday, with an aim of highlighting the importance of tolerance and unity.The square is home to the Aachen Yunus Emre Mosque, which operates under the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB).Speaking at the renaming ceremony for the 2,100-square-meter center, Turkey’s Consul General in Cologne Ceyhun Erciyes said that by taking this decision, the local authorities showed that the mosque is a beautiful reflection of harmony, integration, tolerance, unity and solidarity.Erciyes stressed that, in light of the rise in anti-Muslim, anti-migrant hatred that some have incited to divide societies through fear, “We must raise our voices together against those who are fed by fear and hatred, and we must demonstrate our friendship and solidarity as it is here today.”Speaking at the ceremony, Aachen Mayor Marcel Philipp of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party expressed his gratitude to everyone who contributed to the name-change, noting that renaming streets and squares is not an easy process in Germany.
