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The Firestarter: Of Berlin
BERLIN — On an unseasonably warm day in early October, off a busy artery that cuts through the heart of Berlin’s Wedding neighborhood, the voice of Imam Abdul Adhim Kamouss rings out of Bilal Mosque.
Inside, men and women sit in a narrow, carpeted room. Africans, Germans, Pakistanis, and Turks are on hand to listen to the 37-year-old Kamouss, a Moroccan preacher who seamlessly translates the Quran into German, his words punctuated by a French lilt.