The first Minaret was built 100 years after Muhammed died, so its an invention later added to the religion. (like the traditional full-covering hijab)
And the original purpose was to shout out prayer 5 times per day, putting that up in a European city sounds to me more like religious harassment then democracy or freedom of speech or whatever they want to call it.
Nowadays the purpose would be more a symbol and a landmark for the muslims, a little something to remind them of home if you like...
Which could be just okay i guess, as long as the architecture was in line with that of the rest of the city
A real issue is that Iran and probably other states (Saudi arabia?) are financially backing the building of mosques in europe.
Like the first mosque to be constructed in Copenhagen.
This is pretty horrifying cause it implies that there are large forces subtly attempting to culturally invade Europe and "sneak-islamize" us.
Now the real question is why... and the answer gotta be that we've fucked em up and not many decades ago the arab world woke up and figured out the western world was their enemy.
Compare this to African states, Nigeria in particular, we're literally raping the country, looting and pillaging and doing whatever the fuck we like.
Major oil companies have for the most part been able to do whatever they like.
It's just not an issue cause the people there are way to depressed and crushed to stand up for themselves like certain arab groups have
What im trying to say is that most of the people who are now going against us and whom we in turn label as terrorists and mistreat even more are people
or ancestors of people who we've abused and mistreated in horrible ways before and right now their just getting back at us for it.
This actually got me a bit riled up... late night forum trolling
goodnight!