Well I’m glad there are already lawsuits filed against the “fan”.
Time will tell as to how this goes.
ATHENS: Immigrant organisations opened on Friday the first mosque to operate in Athens since the end of Ottoman rule more than 170 years ago. The government plans to build a mosque that would serve tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants living in the capital. “This is the first time in all the 35 years I’ve lived in Greece that we have a proper place to pray,” said Naim El Gandour, the Egyptian-born head of the Muslim Association of Greece. “It’s hard for me to describe what’s happening — I am overcome with emotion.””
More than 1,000 mostly Arab immigrants gathered at the center for its official opening. El-Gandour said the 1,800 sq. metre (19,500 sq. foot) site had been converted from an old textile factory to become a cultural center that would also have a mosque.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\24\story_24-6-2007_pg7_29
Indiana's Muslims feeling at home
Sat, Jun. 23, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS - The first statewide convention of Indiana Muslims will conclude Sunday. The three-day event, which began Friday, is the product of a relatively new organization called the Muslim Alliance of Indiana. The group's greatest previous efforts were landing an invitation for Muslims to stage Ramadan suppers in the governor's mansion and starting "Muslim Days" with legislators in the Statehouse.
For a diverse community under great scrutiny since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, some Muslims say it represents a sign of staying power and their desire to become fuller participants in their state's future. "I would say this is a coming of age," Louay Safi, a staffer with the Plainfield-based Islamic Society of North America told the Indianapolis Star. "This is a very significant threshold."
The weekend's agenda includes serious discussions about the need for greater Muslim political activism. There will be sessions for Muslim youth, including one on how to balance the faith's strict rules on gender relations in a modern society. The convention comes on the heels of the debut of a quarterly magazine, The Muslim Hoosier, and the establishment of a Muslim chamber of commerce.
"It is the idea that Muslims are realizing themselves as being Hoosiers just like any other individual or group," said Shehzad Qazi, a 19-year-old Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student who manages the magazine.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/17410399.htm