RISE OF MOSQUES, BIRTHRATE, AND CULTURAL DRIVES
Despite this voiced fear on You-Tube and in some corners of Christianity in Europe, in the Rhine-Main river area where I live, I have not seen too many visible mosques on the rise.
As a matter of fact, Muslims are often quite careful not to draw attention to where mosques are locating. For example, the mosque in Kostheim is called simply a Cultural Center.
The residents in Kostheim whom I’ve talked to say the structure is clearly a mosque and aplace of prayer—but most neighbors are tolerant and assume correctly that Muslims need a place of worship. If they want to call it a cultural center instead of a mosque, that is fine with them.
This linking of cultural center or social work center is not necessarily a new phenomenon.
I have observed and read about the phenomena in the USA for decades. For example, in both Dearborn, Michigan and in Chicago, Illinois.
http://wikimapia.org/330776/Islamic-Cultural-Center-of-Greater-Chicago
In some ways, this placement of cultural centers and centers of benevolent works in prominent corners is no different than where unobtrusive and well-meaning Christian groups go and evangelize or set up either a community or mission at some corner of their own state—or across the planet in heretofore-unknown regions of the planet, i.e. from Himalayan mountains to South Sea islands to the Amazons.
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