1st Shia union launched in Europe
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- Date: 28 Apr 2007 02:48:19 -0700
Press TV
April 22, 2007
1st Shia union launched in Europe
Union of Shia Muslim Preachers and Scholars has been granted formal EU
permission to carry out its activities in Europe.
The Union held its first continental meeting in 2004 and then followed
a procedure to get registered as a legal and formal entity across the
EU bloc, said Sayyed Mohammad Naser Taghavi, Deputy Head of Hamburg
Islamic Center.
http://www.izhamburg.com
Taghavi noted that the union has legal permission to establish
branches in all cities and countries which are part of the 27-nation
EU bloc.
Pointing out to the fact that Muslim community has been under massive
propaganda across the continent in recent years, Taghavi said the
Union aims to bring compromise among various Muslim schools of thought
and defend the community's civil rights.
"Offering a rational picture of Islam, forging a peaceful coexistence
between Muslim and non-Muslim communities and introducing the
Europeans to the real essence of the Muslim faith are among other
objectives the group has set for itself", he said.
"Nowadays Europeans are looking for who is the true source of Islamic
authority amid unrelenting blows the faith has received in the recent
years".
Nearly 90 Shia delegates representing Muslim communities living in
Europe have participated in the two-day event which also hosts Islamic
scholars and preachers.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=6954§ionid=3510206
About the Hamburg Center
During a meeting at Atlantic Hotel (Hamburg) in 1953, a group of
Iranian residence of Germany discussed the need to establish their own
religious center. A letter was sent to the late Grand Ayatollah Seyyed
Husayn Borujerdi asking him for help; Grand Ayatollah agreed with the
plan and donated 100,000 Rials to the center. The construction began
in 1960 and by 1965 it was completed. In the same year Ayatollah
Mohammad Beheshti was appointed to lead the center.
http://www.answers.com/topic/islamic-centre-hamburg
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