– Migrants In Germany Indoctrinated by Arabic Mosques More Hardline than in Syria:
(REUTERS – COLOGNE, GERMANY) Hani Salam escaped civil war in Syria and survived the journey from Egypt to Europe. But when he saw men with bushy long beards at a mosque near his current home in Cologne last November, he was worried.
The men’s appearance reminded him of Jaish al-Islam, the Islamist rebels who took over his hometown near Damascus, said Salam, 36, who wears a moustache but no beard. One of them told Salam that “good Muslims grow beards, not moustaches,” he recalled – a centuries-old idea that he dismisses.
“Everything about this mosque made me feel uneasy,” he said.
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