Top Turkey Muslim Body Frowns At Liberal Mosque In Germany, Says Worshippers There Are Doing What Is Contrary To Islam (PHOTOS)

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) strongly criticized a new liberal mosque in Germany on June 20, saying it violates the principles of Islam.

Men and women pray side by side at the new Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque that opened earlier this month in Berlin, which has female imams and where Muslims of all sects of the faith are welcome to worship together and bans the wearing of burkas. The mosque is located inside a Protestant church.

Diyanet, which oversees religious activity in Turkey, said that such ideas were in line with projects led by the group of Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey blames for the July 15 failed coup.

“This initiative has disregarded the basic principles of our holy faith,” Diyanet said in a written statement.

"It is clear that this has been a project carried out for many years by FETO [Fethullahist Terrorist Organization] and other ill-gotten structures for the engineering of religion," it added.

The statement also said the principles of Islam are laid out in the holy Quran.

“The practices inside the mosque mentioned by the media during the opening do not comply with Islam and should not be considered as freedom of thought,” it said.

The mosque was founded by Seyran Ateş, a lawyer and women’s rights activist living in Germany.

See photos below

A woman and a man standing side by side each other

The woman is seen here leading the prayer

Worshippers both males and females praying side by side

Source: News Agencies

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