Germany's New Mega-Mosque: will change Historic Cologne's Skyline Forever!

UPDATE(Reliapundit):

WE SCOOPED WEASEL ZIPPERS ON THIS - BY A DAY.

THEY SEEM TO HAVE LINKED TO THE SAME SOURCE - ONE THEY DON'T NORMALLY LINK TO. WE DID NOT GET A HAT-TIP.

The submitters - dhimmis - of Cologne have agreed that a new mega-mosque to be built there will be allowed to dominate the city's skyline.

Cologne's Gothic Cathedral built 1248 to 1880

There was no fight, as this article makes clear:

The structure will cost between €15 billion and €20 billion, financed by private donations from more than 800 groups in Germany. Construction will be completed in 2010 by the locally based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), which has close ties to Ankara.

The mosque, designed by German architects Paul and Gottfried Böhm, will be a domed building with glass walls and two minarets.

The minarets will be 180 feet tall, one-third the height of the towers of the Cologne Cathedral. The mosque will also be flanked by tall office buildings. DITIB has agreed not to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers.