Blue Mosque (Amsterdam) – Eye on Islamism

Netherlands: Muslims file UN complaint against parliament, citing discrimination Dutch parliamentary committee on unwanted foreign influence is accused of waging a 'witch-hunt' against the country's Muslim community

April 25, 2023 Areeb Ullah

(Middle East Eye) A coalition of Muslim groups in the Netherlands has filed a complaint with the United Nations against a Dutch parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the influence of foreign funding on mosques and Islamic associations. The Ummah Project, a group […]

Amsterdam mayor scraps LGBTI+ statement after backlash from mosques

October 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has canceled the planned statement of support for the LGBTI+ community that she asked local mosques to sign earlier in the month. This was a response to criticism from mosque leaders, who believed the mayor’s request […]

Mosque denounces call against LGBTI+ violence by the municipality of Amsterdam

October 16, 2022 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The board of the Blue Mosque in Amsterdam is angry about a letter from the municipality. In it, Mayor Femke Halsema asks mosque authorities to sign a statement of support calling for the condemnation of violence against LGBTI+ people. The […]

Pushing back against the amplified call to prayer

April 5, 2021 Eye on Islamism

The English city of Peterborough is the latest stop in the ongoing debate over a symbol of Islam’s growing footprint in the West: the amplified call to prayer (adhan). Last fall, Masjid Ghousia requested permission to broadcast three daily prayer calls using […]

Muslim call for prayer recited first time in Amsterdam Dutch capital hears Adhaan on loudspeakers for Friday prayers

November 15, 2019 Abdullah Asiran

(Anadolu) The Muslim call for prayer was recited Friday on loudspeakers for the first time in Amsterdam, according to a mosque official. The Blue Mosque had originally planned the Adhaan last Friday, but the cable of the audio system was cut by […]

‘Sabotage’: Amsterdam mosque alleges prayer call audio cable intentionally cut

November 8, 2019 Zack Newmark

(NL Times) The leader of an Amsterdam mosque believes someone with bad intentions deliberately sliced an audio cable on the building’s rooftop to prevent the religious group’s first call-to-prayer from being amplified by an outdoor loudspeaker. The Blauw Moskee was set to […]

Amplified call to prayer unnecessary in a time of apps, says Amsterdam mayor

October 30, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema says she shares the “lack of enthusiasm” with the city council for plans by a mosque in Nieuw West to become the first in the Dutch capital to call worshippers to Friday prayers using loudspeakers. During […]

Amsterdam mosque to boost call to prayer with loudspeakers

October 8, 2019 Janene Pieters

(NL Times) The Blauwe Moskee in Amsterdam Nieuw-West wants to boost [its] weekly call to prayer — the Adhan — through loudspeakers. A few dozen mosques in the Netherlands already do so, but the Blauwe Moskee will be the first in Amsterdam. […]

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