East Berlin’s first mosque: The Muslims are coming!

A citizens’ group in Berlin turned out this week for a candlelight vigil to protest plans for a new mosque in their neighborhood. It will be the first to be built in the former East Berlin, where almost no Muslims live – but no one can quite explain why it shouldn’t be there.

Spiegel, 28 December 2006

Update:  See “Local protests greet East Berlin’s first mosque”, Deutsche Welle, 2 January 2007