"Amsterdam imam doubts government plans can work
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - With its chrome crescents gleaming atop four tall minarets, the nearly completed Taibah Mosque looks like it belongs somewhere in South Asia.
It has the sound and feel of the subcontinent, too, when its black-turbaned imam Mohammed Shafiqur Rehman calmly explains Islam in sonorous Urdu or quotes the Koran in classical Arabic.
In fact, the mosque big enough to hold 3,000 worshipers stands in the shadows of an elevated railway line and a derelict shopping center in a modest area of southwest Amsterdam."
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