BERLIN: “Liberal mosque” is an insult to Islam and Christianity alike
A self-described feminist and lawyer of Turkish background called Seyran Ates has opened up what she calls a “liberal mosque” in Berlin. It is housed inside a Protestant church and she calls the so-called mosque the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe Mosque after the Islamic theologian Ibn Ruschd and the Christian born romantic poet and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
It seems precarious for someone who is not an Imam of any sort to open a mosque and even more oddly that she is banning women in the mosque from wearing face coverings even if that is the wish of worshippers.
