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A Muslim academic recently opened a gay- and women-friendly mosque in Cape Town, South Africa, which was largely regarded as a response to the culture of exclusion and conservatism in the Muslim ...
A new “gay-friendly” mosque in Cape Town, South Africa, opened its doors on Friday despite receiving death threats and criticism from the local Muslim community. The “Wynberg Open Mosque ...
Cape Town - A planned open mosque, which will be gender-equal and welcome non-Muslims, is causing a storm in Cape Town, according to reports. The Cape Times reported on Monday that the Open Mosque is ...
Authorities say two mosques in Cape Town, South Africa, were recently defiled in Islamophobia-fueled attacks, Al Jazeera reports. On Jan. 7, a pig's snout was left at the entrance gate of a ...
Cape Town - Friday prayers at the People's Mosque in Wynberg look like any other around the Islamic world, except the imam is openly gay and the teaching promotes homosexual rights. It is a stance ...
Women will also be allowed to lead prayers at Taj Hargey's "Open Mosque" in Cape Town. "We are opening the mosque for open-minded people, not closed-minded people," Mr Hargey told the BBC.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan continued their South Africa tour Tuesday with a visit to a 225-year-old Cape Town mosque, where Meghan followed custom and draped a flowing headscarf over her long ...
South Africa's first gay-friendly mosque, which also allows women to lead prayers, is being ordered close. A City of Cape Town councillor says the newly established Open Mosque has violated ...
Cape Town - Arsonists have attacked Cape Town’s controversial “open mosque”, but despite this incident and death threats made against its founder, its doors will remain open. In the early ...
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in Cape Town has strongly condemned a bomb threat made against Al-Azhar Mosque in District Six, describing it as part of a disturbing trend aimed at ...