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Germany: Erdogan to inaugurate one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne

Sep 27, 2018 9:46 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate in the German city of Cologne one of the largest mosques in Europe on Saturday.The Cologne Central Mosque, built by Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) after eight years of construction work, has a capacity of 1,200 people.

It is already widely known that Saudi-funded mosques pose a threat, due to their spread of the Wahhabi ideology. Now Turkey, with its dreams of reviving the Ottoman Empire, is spreading its jihad ideology through its own mosques in the U.S. and Germany.

After Erdogan was reelected, concerns circulated about his growing powers not just within Turkey, but in the United States as well, “according to experts who believe he’s determined to spread his controversial brand of Islamist-nationalistic fervor through a network of mosques and religious centers.”

A top adviser to the Turkish president also has said that Turkish intel “will run operations against Erdogan’s political opponents on US soil” and elsewhere.

Erdogan’s expanding powers, combined with news of his inauguration of one of the largest mosques in Cologne, are troubling:

“It will be the most important and one of the largest mosques in Europe and Germany. It has a symbolic meaning for our Muslim brothers living here,” Nevzat Yasar Asikoglu, chairman of the DITIB, told reporters.

Nonetheless, Germany continues to escort in the hijrah with its reckless open-door immigration policy. Germany already has the second highest Muslim population in Western Europe, after France. Turkey also has aspirations to become part of the EU, helped along by Brussels, which has set aside billions to aid in Turkey’s possible EU membership.

“Erdogan to inaugurate mosque in Germany on Saturday,” by Nilay Kar, Anadolu Agency, September 25, 2018:

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate in the German city of Cologne one of the largest mosques in Europe on Saturday.

The Cologne Central Mosque, built by Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) after eight years of construction work, has a capacity of 1,200 people.

“It will be the most important and one of the largest mosques in Europe and Germany. It has a symbolic meaning for our Muslim brothers living here,” Nevzat Yasar Asikoglu, chairman of the DITIB, told reporters.

“Our mosque also symbolizes peace, brotherhood as well as the culture of co-existence,” he said.

Asikoglu said those who visit the mosque are impressed by interior adornment of the mosque in which Seljuk motif was predominantly used.

The mosque has nine entrances and there is a crescent and a star in the middle of its dome.

The 17,000 square-meter mosque complex also has a shopping center, an exhibition and a seminar hall, a 600-people capacity conference hall, a library, working offices and a car park on the ground floor…..

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Filed Under: European Union, Featured, Germany, mosques, Turkey Tagged With: Cologne mosque, DITIB, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs


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  1. Cthulhu says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 10:06 am

    What can I say? The bigger a mosque, the longer it burns ;)))

    • Rufolino says

      Sep 28, 2018 at 3:29 am

      The Germans have lost it. They are so compromised by their nation’s past crimes, they cannot see straight. They are welcoming the inauguration of a mosque in which hatred of European culture will be preached and encouraged. It’s a sort of madness.

      • Udo Walter says

        Sep 28, 2018 at 10:49 am

        Rufolino, we have far bigger Mosques in the USA than Germany has. Everything is bigger in America.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 29, 2018 at 2:01 am

          Not in this case, Udo. The largest Mosque in the US has a capacity of 5,000; there are those in Europe with well over twice that–up to 12,000.

  2. John says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 10:13 am

    BLOW IT UP, Satanic SHITHOUSE

  3. Guy Macher says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 10:13 am

    Heil, Erdogan!

  4. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 10:21 am

    Is this the same Cologne in which this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl04r1OjRQs ?

    What a reward! What a message! What the f**k do they think is going to happen next?!

  5. John Reynolds says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 11:04 am

    Germany should not allow Erdogan to enter the country, until Turkey admits it’s guilt in the slaughter of TWO MILLION Christian Armenians and Greeks between 1915 and 1923. Note that Turkey signed the WWOne peace treaty in 1918.

    Palestinians often make a point that one of them has been killed every 60 hours, since 1969. Do the calculations… If an Armenian and/or Greek was murdered once every 24 hours, beginning in 1969, you would not reach the 2,000,000 mark until 7442.

    They love playing the victim, but don’t like it when victims complain. That’s truly disgusting.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 11:53 am

    This grand grand mosque which has been constructed in Cologne Germany is one piece in the lager insidious Islamic scheme for the advancement and the=n the conquest of Europe by the method of the stealth. Even if it takes time, they will take the nations of Europe city by city and “by hook or by crook” they intent to . As the the later part of this quote “by crook” means by the violent jihad . The two words “By hook” may apply to the stealth jihad .As seen ,for example, that great mosque that was built in Cologne. As explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader that “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 11:59 am

    That large and grand mosque that was built in the city of Cologne is but one part in the Muslim scheme of what is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism to enact Sharia law in America. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
    This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    The EU gives Turkey millions of euros, allegedly to retain “refugees” in Turkey.
    Turkey builds mega-mosques in Cologne and Maryland.
    Maybe the two matters are connected.

  9. The European says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    Wielding a big stick, “bad uncle D.Trump” wasn’t very nice with little Erdolf. Now, the braggart comes to Germany, and, like a crybaby, he will sit on mama Merkel’s lap, begging Germany and the EU to give Turkey’s economy a financial boost while the Turkish currency keeps on falling and their economy is facing recession and Inflation.

  10. infidel says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 12:29 am

    “Our mosque also symbolizes peace, brotherhood as well as the culture of co-existence,” he said.

    What a CRUEL JOKE on the Germans.. VOW!! Mind Boggling indeed!!!

  11. A_M_Swallow says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 1:13 am

    The German police now know what building to bug to find the organisers of the new year riots and rapes.

  12. Heidi Walter says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 2:05 am

    I find it a crying shame for Merkel and Steinmeier (President) to bow to Erdolf and receive him with military honors and a banquet. A lot of politicians from other paties have cancelled their attendance but it still sheds a light on in which state of mind Merkel and Steinmeier are. As the news reported this morning a young Kurd burned himself out of protest. One should not sacrifice his life for that dictator. What should happen is that German politicians ensure that he takes the ones demonstrating for him back to Turkey. When he arrived yesterday he showed his followers the ISIL sign. If that doesn’t show our stupid politicians what he is after nothing will wake them up. There will be large demonstrations today and most likely violent ones but the area he is staying in is sealed off like a fortress.

  13. infidel says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 4:01 am

    I’ve said this b4 and I will repeat this once again: Erdogan is the kind of closet Jehaadi who will not hesitate to smilingly plunge a knife deep into the back of the next unsuspecting non-Muslim standing next to him, given half a chance and boast about it at his local mosque as his good deed for the day for Allah.

  14. FYI says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 5:35 am

    Just remember who that “call to prayer” is dedicated to:-

    it is to….

    allah “the best of deceivers” k3:54
    allah who CURSES Jews and Christians k9:30
    allah who preaches hatred and violence
    allah who says,in opposition to “Love thy Neighbor{2nd chief commandment}
    “Oh ye who believe! Take not the Jews and christians for friends”
    koran 5V51
    allah who claims in koran 3:3 that the koran confirms the Bible:it doesn’t!

    How much nicer are church bells,calling to prayer to a God of love:if only the dhimmwit
    christians ,be they catholic or protestant,woke up to the reality.

    Remember that allah CURSES Christians in koran k:30,and despite claiming he wrote the Gospel,
    denies everything Jesus christ taught…k4:171{Denial of God’s wisdom}/k157{denial of christ’s crucifixion}

    these mosques are triumphalist abominations and dedicated to a false god,with his false prophet and his false scripture.You might say they are temples to the antiChrist……

    If there is even ONE False statement in the koran,it puts a question mark over it.
    And there is:allah’s claim that the koran confirms the Bible in k3:3 is provably untrue.
    The koran’s teachings are at odds with the moral code revealed in Exodus 20 and everything Jesus taught is negated by allah{and can be shown to be contradictory)

  15. Cynique says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 5:38 am

    And is this serendipity or very careful planning?

    September 28-29th is an important date of pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Cologne – this year called “Suche Frieden” to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the end of WW1.

    And the biggest mosque in Cologne, where the number of mosques near the city center equal the number of christian churches, the cathedral having been of great importance through the ages.

    Again, And is this serendipity or very careful planning?

  16. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 6:47 am

    Dhimland, Dhimland, Unter Islam!

  17. Paul says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 7:26 am

    Looks like a giant friggin’ burka.

  18. J.W.K. says

    Sep 28, 2018 at 4:06 pm

    Farewell, Europe.
    Be prepared for Europa EMIRATE and the end of Europan culture. The sad part: EUROPE DID IT TO ITSELF.
    CULTURAL SUICIDE.

  19. gravenimage says

    Sep 29, 2018 at 1:54 am

    Germany: Erdogan to inaugurate one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne
    ……………………..

    More suicidal insanity.

  20. Xero_G says

    Sep 29, 2018 at 2:02 am

    Proudly stated that the new mosque has “nine entrances”. I wonder though, how many are forbidden for women to enter through?

  21. ΙΑΝ Johnsto says

    Sep 29, 2018 at 1:10 pm

    When is Merkel opening the new church in Turkey?

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