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City Pages
April 24, 2018
So they asked why Republicans were always attacking Islam, and why they weren't open to Muslims joining the party. This is a question of particular importance to the Dar Al-Farooq Center. The mosque has been attacked by people who see Islam as something opposed to American life, rather than part ofÃÂ ...
Evening News and Tribune
April 24, 2018
Not only would donating help those medically in need of the vital fluid, but the ability of churches, mosques and other institutions to work peacefully together ... In addition to the different faith-based organizations hosting individual blood drives at their respective campuses, the churches and mosque alsoÃÂ ...
NL Times
April 24, 2018
Combined with information already known about this type of funding, Nieuwsuur concludes that around 10 percent of Dutch mosques have asked for and received funding from Gulf countries. In 2015 the government asked its scientific research and documentation center WODC to map the extent of mosqueÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 24, 2018
The United Arab Emirates is to give $50m (ã36m) to help rebuild a landmark mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul blown up by Islamic State militants. The UN's cultural agency said a five-year project would restore and reconstruct faithfully the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret. The mosque is where IS leader Abuà...
Redlands Daily Facts
April 24, 2018
Lately, whenever Mohammad M. Hossain receives a call on certain mornings, he prepares himself for bad news. “I don't know if they're going to tell me someone broke in again,” said Hossain, the founder of the Islamic Society of California. According to Hossain and several worshippers who attend theÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 24, 2018
Britain's most senior diplomat has apologised for calling one of the holiest sites in Sikhism a mosque. Sir Simon McDonald mistakenly said on Twitter a colleague had been given a photograph of the Queen at "the Golden Mosque" in Amritsar, India. However, mosques are the Muslim place of worship, while temples orÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 23, 2018
With its towering facade, jade green dome and glistening gold crescent, Lincoln's first purpose-built mosque is already settling into the city's skyline. .... "Locals feel much more comfortable if we go to their space, they can ask us questions - but if they come to mosques, they might not feel comfortable askingÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
April 23, 2018
Over 80,000 of these are controlled by the country's Ministry of Religious Endowments, yet a recently published plan could pit the government's strategy against the wishes of Al-Azhar, Egypt's top religious authority. Most of Egypt's mosques were buildings donated by their owners to the state on conditionÃÂ ...
MyDaytonDailyNews
April 23, 2018
Celebrations included a picnic in a park owned by the mosque and a prayer service. The Dayton area has a growing community of more than 1,000 Ashiska Turkish families, according to estimates. Got a tip? Call our monitored 24-hour line, 937-259-2237, or send it to newsdesk@cmgohio.comÃÂ ...
Chicago Daily Herald
April 18, 2018
Opportunities for Lake County residents to learn about their Muslim neighbors have increased with a series of open hours at Islamic Foundation North in Libertyville. The group, which has operated at 1751 O'Plaine Ave. since 2004 is hosting sessions on Sundays, once or twice a month, as part of itsÃÂ ...
NorthJersey.com
April 18, 2018
MIDLAND PARK — New lighting at a borough mosque will not stay on overnight and a compromise was reached on proposed fencing, as part of an improvement plan approved by the Midland Park Planning Board this week. The board voted unanimously Monday in favor of the El-Zahra Islamic Center andÃÂ ...
Esquire.com
April 17, 2018
Up in La Belle Province, Alexandre Bissonnette is on trial for shooting up a mosque in Quebec City on January 29, 2017, killing six people and wounding 19 others. As part of the evidence against Bissonnette, who apparently knew full well what he was doing and is an accomplished bullshit artist besides,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
But at the end of last week, five roofing contractors wearing hi-vis jackets emblazoned with the words “Stornoway mosque team” were hammering nails into new joists and beams. ... Rashid runs a construction firm that specialises in new-build properties but also has experience of building mosques. As wellÃÂ ...
NPR
April 15, 2018
FADEL: Lynn is a 30-year-old transgender woman. She converted to Islam and is one of the founders of Masjid al-Rabia. The mosque's namesake is a female, Sufi, Muslim, mystic and saint. It opened its doors a year and a half ago, and it's a place where all Islamic sects, all sexualities, all gender identities,ÃÂ ...
CNN
April 15, 2018
(CNN) A man who killed six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque told an investigator he carried out the January 2017 attack after seeing reports the ... The day before Bissonnette stormed the mosque, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that Canada would embrace refugees escaping oppression andÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
April 15, 2018
Hong Kong currently has five permanent mosques and a temporary one, along with dozens of madrassas – Islamic learning centres – spread across the city. The lack of proper spaces has led many Muslims to pray in makeshift mosques. The idea of the Sheung Shui project emerged in the 1990s.
Atlas Obscura
April 10, 2018
Hernandez is one of the older members of the community, before there was even a physical mosque. “We used to pray in a room close to the hospital,” he explained after jumu'ah. It's not uncommon in non-Islamic countries for Muslims to pray in makeshift locations when proper mosques are nonexistent.
TimesLedger
March 20, 2018
The foundation's IFNY website, said the Masjid (Mosque) building was a project nine years in the making and the space is meant for Quranic teachings, Jumuah (Friday) prayer and for Islamic programming for children. State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) and City Councilman BarryÃÂ ...
KCUR
March 20, 2018
Three militia members accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex in southwest Kansas go on trial Tuesday in Wichita. Their alleged plot laid bare tiny pockets of the ugliest, potentially violent, racism in a region that's seen immigrants drawn to tough meatpacking jobs for decades.
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 20, 2018
Minnesota Mosque Explosion Arrests In this July 2017 booking photo released by Ford County Sheriff's Office, Michael Hari is seen on an assault charge. Hari, 47, allegedly intended for the attack to scare Muslims into leaving the U.S. HOGP | APÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
March 20, 2018
The attacks targeted Turkish mosques, associations and shops in various cities including Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Aachen. Germany has a three million-strong Turkish community, many of whom are second and third-generation German-born citizens of Turkish descent whose grandparents moved toÃÂ ...
cleveland.com
March 19, 2018
He also noted that a mosque is likely to locate across from Century Tavern on Center Ridge Road. The developers of the mosque are coming to the Planning Commission in March. Gillock said he expects the project to "sail through." Since the groups for the monthly Coffee & Conversation are getting biggerÃÂ ...
The Independent
March 19, 2018
Two women accused of breaking into an Arizona mosque while yelling derogatory comments have been charged with burglary. Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer of Tempe, Arizona, appear to have filmed themselves wandering through the mosque last week. The video, which was livestreamedÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 17, 2018
Two women were arrested on Thursday after they recorded a video while taking things from a mosque in Arizona and insulting Islam, which the police said might be considered hate speech. In the video, which was posted to Facebook on March 4 and shared by several accounts, the women, identified byÃÂ ...
Colorado Springs Gazette
March 16, 2018
Hari, 47, a former sheriff's deputy accused of being the ringleader in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque, allegedly intended for the attack to scare Muslims into leaving the U.S. He and two associates were charged March 13, 2018, with traveling from rural Clarence, Ill., about 120 miles south of Chicago,ÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
March 16, 2018
Representatives of Germany's three biggest Muslim organizations joined forces on Thursday to call for more solidarity from German politicians, media, and society at large in the face of a recent spate of attacks on mosques in the country. The leaders of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD), theÃÂ ...
New Hampshire Public Radio
March 16, 2018
The Islamic Society of Concord has moved into its very own mosque, after 15 years of renting space. In their new home, congregants now have a private space to meet with the Imam. Men and women can now pray on the same floor, which they couldn't do in the rented space. All Things Considered hostÃÂ ...
Ahval
March 16, 2018
Germans should not dismiss mosque attacks by pro-Kurdish extremists as a foreign issue with no relevance to German society, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD), the Turkish Muslim organisation DITIB, and the Islamic Council said on Thursday. "Muslims have already been under constantÃÂ ...
KMSP-TV
March 16, 2018
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KMSP) - Why would three men from Illinois drive more than 500 miles to throw a pipe bomb through the window of a Minnesota mosque? The motive to specifically target Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington wasn't revealed by federal prosecutors, but was suggested byÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
March 15, 2018
Police say two women could face trespassing charges after a live Facebook video showed them snatching items from a Tempe mosque, urging children to join them in taking printed materials and mocking the Muslim faith. ... The Islamic Community Center of Tempe, one of the largest mosques in Arizona.
BBC News
March 15, 2018
Most of them were small Pentecostal churches, and one mosque was also closed. The government says the reason is that some preachers "deceive their congregation with misleading sermons", AFP reports. But some preachers have accused the government of trying to control their message to congregants in a countryÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
March 14, 2018
According to the lawsuit, the effort for the mosque was met by virulent attacks against the Muslim religion and was then unfairly voted down by the city's zoning board. "We are very pleased to have received a unanimous approval from the zoning board and look forward to welcoming Bayonne residents of allÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 14, 2018
Three men charged Tuesday with illegally possessing a machine gun are suspected of bombing a mosque in Minnesota and attempting to bomb an abortion clinic in Illinois last year, federal officials said. While the complaint does not charge the men with crimes related to the bombing episodes, theÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
March 12, 2018
A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents of the southern occupied West Bank village of Al-Tiwani, and attempted to set fire to the village's mosque, according to locals. Locals from Al-Tiwani, located in the South Hebron Hills, told Ma'an that a group of 30 settlers from the Maon and HavatÃÂ ...
iNews
March 12, 2018
This story of making do with modest facilities, and of Muslims banding together in their spare time to secure new sites, is not unique; in fact, it is typical of how many of the now 1,800 mosques across Britain were originally opened. As I found while researching my book, The British Mosque, it followed aÃÂ ...
Queens Chronicle
March 12, 2018
The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating graffiti that was found scrawled at the site of a mosque under construction in Queens Village. The graffiti, which included a reference to the 9/11 attacks, was reported just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, according to Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, commanding officerÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
March 12, 2018
Adeel Mangi and fellow litigation partner Muhammad Faridi have worked on cases involving the denial of mosques. ... Bar Association of New York, said there'd been a problem with a group in New Jersey that was denied permission to build a mosque, according to Mangi, a litigation partner at ManhattanÃÂ ...
NJ.com
March 12, 2018
BAYONNE -- There will be a special Zoning Board hearing tonight to approve the city's first mosque, two-and-a-half years after a local Muslim group first applied for consideration. As part of a $400,000 settlement agreement, the city's Zoning Board will approve the Bayonne Muslims' application for aÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
March 11, 2018
Local residents got the opportunity to learn all about the Islamic faith on Saturday during the third annual “Visit a Mosque Day” held at the Islamic Center of Savannah. The Savannah interfaith open house was part of a statewide event organized to encourage people to learn more about their local MuslimÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2018
A mosque in Berlin has been set on fire by masked assailants in the early hours of Sunday morning. "Witnesses told us that three assailants with covered faces threw burning material and immediately ran away," said Bayram Turk, the head of the mosque association. This attacks comes only a few days afterÃÂ ...
Snopes.com
March 9, 2018
For their “new” mosque claim, Gatestone used a map of mosques in London from MuslimsInBritain.org, a blog dedicated to cataloging British mosques. Yet the map itself doesn't claim to be a catalog of “new” mosques, and a number of mosques included on the map were built well before the year 2000.
NPR
March 4, 2018
Under President Trump, Latino immigrants in the U.S. illegally are under enormous pressure. ICE has dramatically intensified its efforts to detain and deport undocumented persons. That was a cornerstone of Trump's campaign platform, and after his election, officials at a mosque in Cincinnati announcedÃÂ ...
The Columbian
March 3, 2018
The architects behind the Vali-e-Asr mosque dispensed with the traditional rounded domes and towering minarets, instead opting for a modern design ... He and his co-designer, Catherine Spiridonoff, point out that mosques come in many shapes and sizes, and that the first mosque ever built, at the time ofÃÂ ...
Concord Monitor
March 3, 2018
Imam Mustafa Akaya speaks to his congregation at the Islamic Society of Greater Concord's new mosque Friday, March 2, 2018. ... After raising double that amount to purchase the building through local community donations and other mosques in less than a year, Mask seemed confident raising money forÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
March 2, 2018
Rabnawaz Akbar, a trustee of Makki Masjid in the northern city of Manchester, told Al Jazeera. Over the past couple of days, a handful of volunteers have camped out at the place of worship, providing food and shelter to Manchester's homeless. The mosque is also offering its shower facilities to thoseÃÂ ...
Yeni Şafak English
March 2, 2018
In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, windows of the Turkish Geylani Mosque, which is run by the Geylani Foundation, were broken and the walls were vandalized by PYD/PKK supporters on Jan. 22. Ali Dede Tas, head of the Geylani Foundation, said the incident had made everyone sad and he hoped such anÃÂ ...
Indiana Daily Student
March 2, 2018
Discussion and public comment about Carmel, Indiana's proposed first mosque lasted more than five hours Monday night before the city's Board of Zoning Appeals. However, the few minutes between a motion to vote on the proposal and the results may have been the longest part of the night.
Indianapolis Star
March 1, 2018
The Board of Zoning Appeals voted 3-2 late Monday to allow the congregation to build the mosque at 141st Street and Shelborne Road, after taking more than five hours of public comment. About 300 signed up to speak, but as the clock turned toward midnight, 88 had spoken in favor of the mosque and 88ÃÂ ...
Kenosha News
February 28, 2018
Somers will update its land use plan for the I-94 corridor and the northwest portion of the village — including property for a proposed mosque. The Village Board Tuesday secured the services of Foth Infrastructure and Environment to lead the village through the process of updating its land use and sewerÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 28, 2018
Police had been deployed in the eastern town of Ampara to control the unrest after a Sinhalese mob attacked a mosque, four shops and several vehicles ... to uphold minority rights and freedom of religion after more than 20 attacks on Muslims, including arson at Muslim-owned businesses and mosques.
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