390:, the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, issued a statement about it in general terms and did not criticise this particular decision because of the principle of equal treatment. According to Siðmennt, it was not part of municipality's functions to grant building plots to religious or life-stance organizations, such as the Evangelic-Lutheran State Church, the Catholic Church, or the Association of Muslims in Iceland, free of charge. However, since that system is in place it must be applied equally to all. Siðmennt would not apply for a building plot for itself though in order to stick to its main principle of separation of state and church.
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fylgjandi eða andvíg(ur) ertu því að eftirfarandi trúfélög fái að byggja trúarbyggingar á Íslandi’ ('how supportive or opposed are you that the following religious groups should get to build a religious building in
Iceland?'). It found fairly consistent and positive attitudes by Icelanders to the construction of religious structures by the
364:(8.5% and 9.1% opposed, 67.2% and 54.7% in favour, respectively), but quite strong opposition to the Muslim Association of Iceland building a religious building (43.4% opposed, 31.5% in favour). At first, the only significant political figure to voice objections was the one-time mayor of Reykjavík
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The decision to grant the building plot free of charge proved to be controversial. The decision also led to the creation of a
Facebook group "We protest against a mosque in Iceland" by Skúli Skúlason. One independent opinion poll of adults run between September 26 and October 1, 2013 asked ‘hversu
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every week and it is also open for all other prayers during the day from Fajr to Isha. In
January 2009, a new wooden altar was built by members of the association. On Sundays, there are Quran lessons for kids of different ages. There are also meetings for different subjects of Muslims in Iceland.
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Permission to build a purpose-built mosque was first sought in 1999. The city government authorized a plot of land much smaller than requested but did not approve the building plans. The project stalled when approval of additional land and further progress was tied to approval of the adjacent
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Iceland, and he was, "shocked to the point of paralysis when he learned last March, in a meeting with Saudi Arabian Ambassador, that the government of Saudi Arabia had decided to interfere in Icelandic religious life by donating one million US Dollars to the planned mosque".
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In 2010 Salmann Tamimi said that the
Association of Muslims in Iceland would never raise money from abroad to build the new mosque. His successor, however, has said that funds for the mosque will be raised abroad, including Muslims in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
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church. This delay was 'especially signalled as a possible sign of prejudice against
Muslims by the ECRI (European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance) human rights report on Iceland in 2007'. On July 6, 2013, Reykjavík City Council, under the leadership of
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303:, to lead the prayers and deliver the Friday sermons. On Saturdays, the mosque held dinners along with motivational lectures. Ismaeel Malik was also invited to an
352:, "My hope is that the mosque can serve as a statement of liberalism, open to all, a place where a North African laborer can pray next to a U. S. businessman."
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The Mosque: The First Mosque in the Historic City of Venice
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