Liberal Berlin mosque to stay open despite fatwa from Egypt
(The Guardian Germany)

Seyran Ates´s Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque allows men and women to pray together and rejects burqa and niqabThe founder of a new liberal mosque in Berlin that allows men and women to pray side by side has vowed to press on with her project even though the institution has been issued with a fatwa from Egypt and attacked by religious authorities in Turkey within a week of its opening.`The pushback I am getting makes me feel that I am doing the right thing,` said Seyran Ates, a Turkish-born lawyer and women´s rights campaigner, who does not wear a hijab. `God is loving and merciful - otherwise he wouldn´t have turned me into the person I am.` Related: Zakat requires Muslims to donate 2.5% of their wealth: could this end poverty? Continue reading...