Masjid al-Faruq is a Sunni
mosque located in
Nørrebro
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,
Copenhagen, associated with
Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Controversies
Omar el-Hussein attended the mosque the day before perpetrating the
2015 Copenhagen shootings
On 14–15 February 2015, three separate shootings occurred in Copenhagen, Denmark. In total, two victims and the perpetrator were killed, while five police officers were wounded.
The first shooting took place on 14 February at a small public after ...
. The sermon that day included references to
Muhammed waging war against
Jews, and accused
Western civilization of leading non-
Muslim
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s to corruption.
In July 2018,
Mundhir Abdallah, a
Hizb ut-Tahrir member, delivered a sermon including the quote:
For this, he was charged with §266(b) and §136 part 3 of the
penal code
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(respectively nicknamed ''racismeparagraffen'' and ''forkynderloven''), the latter of which prohibits religious teachers from including express approval of certain crimes, including manslaughter, in religious instruction. The defense argued that Abdallah should be acquitted because the sermon was based on a
Hadithic quote, because it was meant to refer to
Israel rather than Jews in general, and because it was meant as a "prophecy" rather than an encouragement. He was found guilty on both charges.
On 4 October 2018, 6 politicians from the
Danish People's Party made a proposal to outlaw the mosque, but the motion did not carry. In December 2018,
Minister of Justice Søren Pape Poulsen reported that the Ministry of Justice did not find a basis for this action in the
constitution:
On 21 June 2019, imam Mundhir Abdallah stated in a sermon that the rulers and heads of state of Muslim countries, such as
Iran,
UAE, and
Saudi Arabia, were serving crusader countries (
United States), and that
Jerusalem was occupied by
Zionists
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Jew ...
.
References
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Faruq Mosque
Islamism in Denmark
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Islam and antisemitism