Everything seemed to be in place for a protracted xenophobic row and attendant media frenzy in this depressed industrial town near the French border.
A Muslim congregation applied in November to build a minaret and three golden cupolas on the roof of the old movie theater it had converted into a mosque. The far-right party here in the state of Saarland, emboldened by last year’s ban on minarets in Switzerland, seized on the issue, calling the proposed 28-foot minaret “the bayonet of Islam.” [...]
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