Mosque in Gothenburg emptied after brawl

All entries were stopped The incident reported to the police and the alleged imam then gave a Friday sermon in which he took up as a police notified him and compared the people who go against the mosque by arsonists and murderers. Something that many saw as threatening.

In connection with the GP’s articles announced Athletic and association management, which in recent years has paid hundreds of thousands of local contributions to the mosque, to freeze all contributions until further notice. It also announced that it planned to participate at the next annual meeting to check that all would be accurate to. But that was not the case.

In January, was held instead two separate annual meetings, where two different boards were elected. The group linked to the imam criticized today still in control of the premises. – I was unfortunately not able to attend. But we will work on this. It’s possible that the groups will go their separate ways, says Mats Morian on athletic and club management who previously said he would attend.

Petition in protest against the municipalityThe group that does not belong to the imam has now started to collect hundreds of signatures in protest against the municipality handled the situation in the Bishop’s Palace. During Wednesday night visited the mosque with the requirement to gain access to the premises, a prank then ended with the police were called in and the room was emptied of people. – The municipality has let us down.

We have done everything correctly and given them evidence of any inaccuracies in the association. How can we trust the authorities if they do this, says Xassan Ishmael who was one of the protesters. The second group president Abdi Nasir Abdullah do not agree. – We have not done anything wrong. The others will do anything to defame us and to try to take over the association. There has been a coup attempt, says Abdi Nasir Abdullah

Accused of being IslamicA pajkastning are now underway between the two groups in which they accuse each other of being everything from Islamists for refusing to relinquish power for economic reasons. Both groups believe that a Somali clan conflict in play. Many also believe that the escalating conflict has created much concern among residents in the area. Even Jahja Zeqiraj (S), chairman of the West Hisingen District Council is concerned about the situation. – It is pajkastning both ways. I have not seen any evidence that anyone would be extreme, but it seems more a case of both groups want this room for strategic reasons.

It is located in the middle of a residential area, which is not at all good really, says Jahja Zeqiraj. Call for extraordinary meetingHe has now been given a mandate to the district administration to fact-check all protocols after they found the doubt even from the last meetings. He has also called for an extraordinary meeting in two weeks in which to try to mediate between the two factions. – It is quite unorthodox that we enter this way and put us into what a single compound does. But we are responsible for the residents in the area and this conflict has had such a big impact, says Jahja Zeqiraj and continues: – In an ideal world we would not have such premises right from neighborhoods where it moves so many people. As for the other compounds, it has even been shootings. That is the lesson for us in the administration. To squeeze in the basement mosques and ethnic unions among residential areas as has been done is not good, says Jahja Zeqiraj.

Source:Gothenburg Newspaper