Salmann Tamimi, |
Some residents of Iceland joining the National Islamic Association to protest against right-wing groups plan new mosque in the capital Reykjavik.
"I received an email from a number of people on how to register. I was somewhat surprised, but very happy," said the founder of the association, Salmann Tamimi, told Iceland Review's website.
Increased attention is apparently derived from the contention of the government's plan to donate the land for the mosque.
Opponents of the plan view it as abuse of public lands and their defense of the established church.
While supporters accuse them prejudiced.
"There is no place in Christianity for the struggle for human rights of others."
Salmann Tamimi
A well-known journalist Iceland, Gunnar Smari Egilsson, said he might join the order-such as the Muslim Association of Icelandic law-governed organization that gets donations from taxation upon it.
The only association
Muslim residents of Iceland are listed and numbered 770 people worship in a room on the third floor of an office building.
They have been waiting for 14 years to get permission to build a new mosque in 2013.
Icelandic law allows a person becomes a member of a religious association.
Tamimi said he would prefer if people did not have to get out of the national church only to declare support for the mosque.
"There is no place in Christianity for the struggle for human rights of others," he said. BBC
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