I want to know more about your relationship to the masjid, being that the masjid is a centerpiece in Jinn.
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The attacks on March 15 saw dozens of Muslim worshippers gunned down during Friday prayers at both the Masjid Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Masjid Mosque.
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"It's scary but it's not going to scare us away from coming to the masjid," said Danish Shaikh, who attended Friday services at Al-Farooq Masjid in Atlanta, Georgia.
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On Friday, New Zealand police announced on Twitter that 41 people were killed at the Masjid al Noor mosque, while 7 died at the Linwood Masjid mosque on Linwood Avenue.
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My relationship growing up with the masjid was really beautiful.
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New Zealand police announced on Twitter that 41 people were killed at the Masjid al Noor mosque while seven died at the Linwood Masjid mosque; one more person died at a hospital from their injuries.
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That includes the Red Fort and India's largest mosque, Jama Masjid.
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I have always been taught the Masjid is a safe haven.
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Masjid Al Noor itself was threatened by white supremacists in 22019.
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New Zealand police announced on Twitter that 41 people were killed at the Masjid al Noor mosque while 7 died at the Linwood Masjid mosque on Linwood Avenue, while one died from their injuries in a hospital.
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New Zealand police announced on Twitter that 41 people were killed at the Masjid al Noor mosque while 7 died at the Linwood Masjid mosque on Linwood Avenue, while one died from their injuries in a hospital.
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Go to the masjid, just me and him, and get nikkah-fied?
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Our masjid was large, pink, and intricate, with many rooms and mysteries.
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The Babri Masjid, a mosque built in 163, stood there until Dec.
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Some of my best memories are at the masjid, as a kid.
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The masjid isn't the place to be talking about sexuality and boys.
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"He was in the masjid (mosque) when he was shot," said Omar.
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New Zealand police announced on Twitter that 41 people were killed at the Masjid al Noor mosque, while 7 died at the Linwood Masjid mosque on Linwood Avenue, while one victim died from their injuries in a hospital.
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He expresses reservation due to previous threats and vandalism directed towards the masjid.
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Ms. Obaidi stays busy by volunteering at the Masjid Dar Al-Dawah mosque.
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On Friday, Ms. McCray spoke at Masjid 'Eesa ibn Maryam, a mosque in Queens.
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He visited the Masjid Ibn Taymia Mosque on Tuesday in a show of support.
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We had a really beautiful masjid in an architectural sense ––a large Victorian building.
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The Masjid Sultan mosque is the gorgeous jewel at the center of the neighborhood.
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Razvi headed to Makki Masjid, where hundreds of men were streaming out the doors.
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They put carpets down and installed air-conditioners and called it the Ivy Hills Masjid.
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"They were scrutinized much more rigorously," said Roman Storzer, a lawyer representing the Bensalem Masjid.
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"I spend much of my free time in the masjid memorizing the Quran," he wrote.
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In August, Sheikh was hired as imam of the Grand Prairie Masjid, just 9 miles away.
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It was hanging by a handcuff from a temporary fence outside the Masjid Annur Islamic Center.
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My dad would sell scarves outside the masjid, so I was in love with this market.
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Mr. Wahhaj's father, Siraj Wahhaj, is the imam at Masjid at-Taqwa, a mosque in Brooklyn.
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The Guardian reported that 20 shots were fired near the Masjid Al Noor Mosque, injuring several people.
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Al-Furqan Jame Masjid was his second imam post in Queens, and he was quickly embraced there.
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The bus was picking up passengers from a stop on Sunehri Masjid Road just after 8 a.m.
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Ms. Lynn is the director of Masjid al-Rabia, a women-centered, L.G.B.T.Q.-affirming mosque in Chicago.
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In 2006, Wood removed his shoes at the entrance to the Masjid As-Saber, Portland's largest mosque.
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In May, Amy Jo Lyons, a counterterrorism supervisor in the New York office, spoke at Makki Masjid.
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He said Archer had attended the West Philadelphia mosque, known as Masjid Mujahideen, for at least five years.
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After visiting the Jama Masjid, one of India&aposs largest mosques, she interacted with a child sitting outside.
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Policemen in riot gear were posted every few metres around the Jama Masjid mosque in Srinagar's old quarter.
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In Halifax, the Ummah Masjid organized yard sales to help students sell their furniture, electronics and even cars.
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However, when the Bensalem Masjid congregation applied for the same type of variance, it did not get one.
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A 16th-century mosque, the Babri Masjid, once stood here, a reminder of India's history under Mughal rule.
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On the day the threat arrived, the congregation of Masjid Bilal Ibn Rabah had planned a potluck dinner.
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After the Babri Masjid mosque was razed in Ayodhya in 1992, communal riots across India killed about 2,000 people.
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Talib Shareef is the Imam of Masjid Muhammad Mosque and the President of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington.
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The facility, also known as the Bellevue Masjid, is closed until further notice "due to the fire," its website said.
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Mohan Ibn Ibrahim walked into the Masjid Al-Noor, a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, around 1:30 p.m.
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West African women gather after participating in an outdoor prayer event at Masjid Aqsa-Salam mosque in New York City.
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Indian Muslims leave after offering Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi on June 16.
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Imam Siraj Wahhaj, 68, is the religious leader at the Masjid At-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Indian Muslims leave after offering Eid al-Adha prayers at the Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi on Aug. 22.
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The elder Wahhaj heads the Masjid At-Taqwa in Brooklyn, a mosque that has attracted radical speakers over the years.
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Even the infamous 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai allegedly were committed to avenge the destruction of the Babri Masjid mosque.
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Here, a half-block from Masjid el-Ber, the local mosque, the flavors are distinct to the Bay of Bengal.
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"We thought, something simple to show our support," said Yasser Abduaalla, the manager of a nearby mosque, Masjid As-Salam.
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In the northern city of Ayodhya was a mosque, called Babri Masjid, built by the Mughal emperor Babur in 1528.
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During the dispute over Babri Masjid, Ashis Nandy, a prominent Indian intellectual, began a series of interviews with R.S.S. members.
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The India Gate military memorial and 233th century Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi are both free to the public.
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As a child, I attended masjid to learn the Qur'an, but I was also encouraged to assimilate, mostly for safety reasons.
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His message to the mosque, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid: Islam should be a force of peace in the face of discrimination.
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Any chance we had my parents would take my sisters and I to volunteer, to pray, to play at the Masjid.
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There's also the limitations to what the masjid can offer you as a kid versus as you're becoming a young woman.
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The week before, on a bright Friday afternoon, double-parked black cars clogged Coney Island Avenue during prayer at Makki Masjid.
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The Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque agreed with prosecutors and defense attorneys in determining Wolfe's sentence, Brown said.
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At the end of December, vandals in Las Vegas wrapped bacon around door handles of the Masjid-e-Tawheed mosque, CAIR said.
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A 28-year-old man has been charged in connection to the shootings at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Masjid in Christchurch.
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"It could have been me over here," said Kobir Chowdhury, 40, the president of Masjid Al-Aman, a nearby mosque in Brooklyn.
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These include the site of the first Muslim prayer congregation in South Africa, and the first mosque -- Auwal Masjid -- built in 1794.
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They can be seen walking through the crowded bylanes of Old Delhi and climbing up the stairs of the historical Jama Masjid.
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After more people arrived, locals grew suspicious, said Mohammed Majid, the secretary of the Grand Masjid Sainthamaruthu, one of the town's main mosques.
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The campaign to demolish and replace the Babri Masjid began 70 years ago with the surreptitious planting of a Hindu idol in 1949.
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The campaign to demolish and replace the Babri Masjid began 70 years ago with the surreptitious planting of a Hindu idol in 1949.
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Jaballah is Masjid Al Noor's facilities manager, and he thought to himself, as he prayed, that this would just be another quick fix.
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While there had been discussion of forming an L.G.B.T.Q.-affirming mosque in Chicago for years, Masjid al-Rabia's birth was catalyzed through tragedy.
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In the early 1950s, he founded and preached at the Mosque 7, now a Sunni Muslim mosque in Harlem called Masjid Malcolm Shabazz.
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On December 6, 1992, a crowd led by R.S.S. partisans swarmed Babri Masjid and, using axes and hammers, began tearing the building down.
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At the Masjid An-Nur in North Minneapolis, Omar Aded, 48, said he had learned about the New Zealand attacks while watching CNN.
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The Otago Muslim Association had a "close, friendly relationship" with the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, which serves a larger congregation of Muslims.
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"We lost 50, but we gained 5 million," Mazharuddin Syed Ahmed told VICE News inside Masjid Al Noor, making reference to New Zealand's population.
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Ishar helps build a masjid for the locals, and even instructs one of his men to tend to injured soldiers from the enemy camp.
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The mosque, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid, sits tightly with the street's other homes and buildings in the working-class neighborhood of Ozone Park, Queens.
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The majority of the deaths took place at the Masjid Al Noor mosque, where an estimated 41 people are thought to have been killed.
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The first westerner to discover oil in the region was William Knox D'Arcy, who came across it in Masjid-i-Sulaiman, Iran in 1908.
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Masjid Bilal Ibn Rabah is one of more than a dozen mosques to receive threats since January, according to reports collected by the council.
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The Abraj al Bait Towers are made up of seven buildings located near the Masjid al Haram in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.
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Her imam, Musa Kabba, of Masjid Ar Rahmah, said she was away from the apartment for up to 40 minutes before fire trucks arrived.
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Back in 1992 several industrialists put their name to a full-page ad decrying the destruction by a Hindu mob of the Babri Masjid mosque.
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It's so damn hot here that I hop back on the subway and take it to the Masjid Jamek stop, where my hostel is located.
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WELLINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Rahimi Ahmad was performing his Friday prayers at the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch when deafening gunfire shattered the silence.
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The bombings were ordered by Islamic militants in revenge for the demolition of Babri Masjid -- a 16th century mosque -- by Hindu extremists, the prosecution claims.
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Karim Mozawalla, a trustee at Masjid Hamza, said that in some past years, its members had gathered in a public park for a prayer service.
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Where do you go when your life could end with the swing of a metal bat as you walk with your friends to the Masjid.
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Another landmark heavily affected by coronavirus fears is the Grand Mosque, or Masjid al-Haram, in Mecca — one of the centers of Muslims' annual pilgrimage.
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Despite support from 1,200 volunteers from 30 organizations, Vassar Temple, Masjid al-Noor Mosque and seven local colleges, a protest and death threat surfaced online.
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Mamadou A. Diallo, the imam at the Masjid El-Ihsan mosque on Utica Avenue, said he had just finished praying when he heard the shots.
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He can be seen using GPS to navigate his way to Masjid al Noor mosque, where he opens fire on worshippers in a horrific attack.
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The Masjid Nur Al Islam mosque, which Mr. Ullah was said to have attended, sits on the corner of Church and Chester Avenues in Kensington.
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The Hindu nationalist organization Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Muslim group All India Babri Masjid Action Committee tried unsuccessfully to resolve the dispute through negotiations.
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Muslims enjoy breakfast after the Eid-Gah, the prayer on the morning of the Eid Al-Fitr celebration at the Rasooli Masjid in Pretoria, South Africa.
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The destruction of the Babri Masjid in the town of Ayodhya in Northern India sparked a wave of religious violence that left hundreds dead across India.
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When the fire broke out, the girls' father was attending an evening prayer at the Masjid-Ur-Rahmah, the mosque where Mr. Kabba is an imam.
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Mr. Akonjee and Mr. Uddin, dressed in religious garb, were walking from a prayer service at the local mosque, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid, on Glenmore Avenue.
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At the time, Midwood was mostly Jewish, but in 1982 a mosque, Makki Masjid, opened on Coney Island Avenue, and began attracting Pakistanis to the neighborhood.
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Over the weekend, footage of two young women dancing in front of Masjid Bandaraya mosque — while wearing shorts and belly-baring tops — went viral on social media.
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Muslims participate in an outdoor prayer event at Masjid Aqsa-Salam mosque, Manhattan's oldest West African mosque, to mark the end of Ramadan on June 15, 2018.
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The Temple, just a few miles away, offers virtual Shabbat and Torah study, and the shuttered Al-Farooq Masjid of Atlanta has posted prayers on its website.
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At the corner is Masjid Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, a mosque where on certain days a husband and wife hand out leaflets reinforcing Islam's devotion to peace.
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Police and paramilitary were deployed outside Jama Masjid, where several people carried India's flag and copies of the constitution, which states that India is a secular republic.
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The school was part of a mosque called Masjid Abu Baker, where hundreds of people prayed and maintained strong relations with local elected and law enforcement officials.
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Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and his associate Tharam Uddin, 64, were shot as they left afternoon prayers at the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque just before 2 p.m.
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A short time later at the Masjid Sabireen mosque, mourners crowded around the coffin of 17-year-old Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student who died Friday's massacre.
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Police stand guard outside the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, one of two mosques targeted by a white supremacist mass murderer this week, on March 17, 2019.
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The town will also pay $53,000 to settle a separate lawsuit filed by the Bensalem Masjid, the group that had sought permission to build a new prayer center.
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In September, 1990, a senior B.J.P. member named L. K. Advani began calling for Babri Masjid to be destroyed and for a Hindu temple to take its place.
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The video recorded the suspect driving to the Masjid Al Noor mosque in the center of the city before taking rifles out of his car and shooting indiscriminately.
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Near the Jama Masjid, which has long been the centre of protests in Srinagar, bricks and rocks from recent stone-pelting incidents were strewn in at least three locations.
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Near the Jama Masjid, which has long been the centre of protests in Srinagar, bricks and rocks from recent stone pelting incidents were strewn in at least three locations.
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The facts about mosques The word "mosque" comes to us from a corruption of the Arabic "masjid," which just means a place where you bow your head — to God.
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Near the Jama Masjid, which has long been the center of protests in Srinagar, bricks and rocks from recent stone-pelting incidents were strewn in at least three locations.
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India's biggest terror attack The bombings were ordered by Islamic militants in revenge for the demolition of Babri Masjid -- a 16th century mosque -- by Hindu extremists, the prosecution claimed.
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Kobir Chowdhury, the president of Masjid Al-Aman, who took the podium after the mayor, mentioned that the City Council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, visited the neighborhood on Sunday.
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"We were just asking for our mosque, and we just wanted to be treated like everyone else," said Imtiaz Chaudhry, a physician and member of the Bensalem Masjid congregation.
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The mosque leader and Uddin were killed near the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque in Queens as they left afternoon prayers dressed in traditional religious garb, the Associated Press reports.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The flowers heaped against the front wall of Masjid Al Noor are mostly dead now, sun-baked the color of dry hay and commingled with autumn's first fallen leaves.
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Commonly referred to as "Ayodhya" because of the city in Uttar Pradesh in which it's located, the religious site also was home to the 2628-year-old Babri Masjid mosque.
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In 1992, a rally led by the BJP and affiliate organizations spiralled out of control and a Hindu mob destroyed the Babri Masjid or mosque in the city of Ayodhya.
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In Brooklyn, Mr. Ullah's social life revolved at least in part around the Masjid Nur al Islam mosque, where he was said to be close with the imam, Gauhar Ahmed.
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For more than 10 years, another Indonesian bazaar has also operated in Astoria, Queens, in the parking lot of Masjid Al-Hikmah, the first Indonesian mosque in the United States.
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"They are from Raqqa, which is one of the worst affected areas in Syria," said Abdallah Yousri, an imam at Ummah Masjid and Community Center, a mosque the family attended.
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There, Mr. Akonjee drew people in because he listened to them, said Kobir Chowdhury, the president of Masjid Al-Aman, the largest of five Bangladeshi mosques in the Ozone Park area.
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Many villagers advised him and his wife to get rid of their burdensome son — throw him out or drop him off at a masjid or on the side of the road.
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Masjid al-Aman, a mosque in East New York, Brooklyn, that like many mosques summons the faithful to prayer through roof-mounted loudspeakers, five times a day (83 calls to 311).
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ISIS has also not claimed responsibility for the attacks, which included a bombing near Islam's second holiest place of worship, Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, near to Prophet Mohammed's burial site.
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On Friday, a couple hundred worshippers walked through Masjid Al Noor's doors for the day's prayers, escaping from the cold wind and filing down the hall and onto the tatty green carpet.
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Witnesses say the suspect left and returned to the Masjid Al Madina mosque several times in his truck, prompting tense moments inside while children were sheltered in the back of the building.
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In 28503, Hindu activists broke into Babri Masjid and installed a Lord Ram idol, transforming the mosque into a de facto temple and exacerbating religious tensions that boil to this very day.
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"Those who know them say this is strange, so we want to find out what happened," he said in a news conference in his office at Masjid At-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn.
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Hasan Husein, an interpreter for the imam at the Masjid Omar Mosque in Paterson, which is next to the apartment where Mr. Saipov lived, said threatening callers contacted them this week, too.
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Wednesday was the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the 16th century Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu fanatics who claimed it was built on the site of a Hindu temple.
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A local mosque, Masjid Aqsa, that served the area's African Muslim immigrants, was pushed out in 225 after its rent more than tripled, and its former site is now a vacant lot.
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Masjid At-Taqwa, a popular mosque just steps away from Abu's, was founded by former members of the Nation who left in the 1980s to practice a more traditional brand of Islam.
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On the street below Jama Masjid, Muslims were joined by people of other faiths, including a large number of Dalits, the community that ranks at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy.
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It was coming from Ayodhya, where many of the passengers had gone to visit the site where Babri Masjid was destroyed, ten years earlier, and to advocate for building a temple there.
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For Ahmed, 59, who spoke with VICE News several days before he spoke in front of the Friday congregation, being with his community in Masjid Al Noor is part of the healing process.
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They and five other Hindu leaders -- two of whom are now dead -- are accused of taking part in a 1990 criminal conspiracy to demolish the Babri Masjid in the northern town of Ayodhya.
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As we drive around the neighborhood trying to navigate the maze of construction, I notice several of the houses surrounding the masjid brazenly sporting Trump regalia—banners, bumper stickers, lawn signs—the works.
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"He conveyed a message of peace and harmony and quietness with your neighbors despite their religion, culture and race," said Kobir Chowdhury, the president of Masjid Al-Aman, a nearby mosque in Brooklyn.
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He was not a deeply religious man himself, and had never set foot in any of the three dozen mosques in the city, not even the large Al-Farooq Masjid, on Fourteenth Street.
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In November, the old story of Ayodhya was in the news again, when India's Supreme Court cleared the way for a Hindu temple to be constructed on the former site of Babri Masjid.
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Since twin attacks on Ahmadi mosques in Lahore in 2010 left 93 people dead, Rabwah's Masjid-e-Aqsa, where 20,000 people would gather at a time, has been abandoned for smaller neighborhood mosques.
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The footage showed the man entering the carport of the Masjid Al-Munin mosque in Titusville near Cape Canaveral in central Florida late Friday night and vandalizing it, Titusville police spokeswoman Amy Matthews said.
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"Muslims have been in New Zealand for a long time, and Muslims have never had any issues in New Zealand," said Ibrar Sheikh, the secretary of Al Mustafa Jamia Masjid, a mosque in Auckland.
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The protests in New Delhi had grown throughout the day, initially starting at the historic Jama Masjid mosque, where chants of "Remove Modi" filled the air after Friday prayers that drew thousands of worshippers.
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Aside from offering five acres (two hectares) of land in compensation for the 2.8 lost, their ruling gave solace to Muslims through the indignant language it used to describe the destruction of the Babri Masjid.
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While Afghan officials all agreed that the American military conducted drone strikes in the Aaq-Masjid area of Chardara District, a remote area dominated by Taliban insurgents, they gave widely divergent accounts of what happened.
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Officials in the western city believe explosives were hidden in a motorcycle left in a parking area outside the Jama Masjid, a large mosque dating from the 12th century, known for its intricate blue tiles.
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Aside from offering five acres of land in compensation, their ruling gave solace to Muslims by terming the 1992 demolition of the mosque, known as the Babri Masjid, "an egregious violation of the rule of law".
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The man stood at the podium in the cramped Masjid Un-Noor mosque on Staten Island as hundreds of Muslims sat barefoot on the carpet before him, facing east, just before the start of Friday prayers.
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"Our great religion forgives Mr. Trump for his acts, even though he doesn't apologize to us," said Mourad Amer, of Yorktown, who came to pray with Mr. Khan at Masjid William Salaam, a mosque in Norfolk.
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Today, both hills are enclosed within the Masjid al-Haram (Sacred Mosque) complex (which also houses the Kaaba), and the path between the hills is a long, beautiful indoor gallery with marble floors and air conditioning.
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Saudi Arabia's claim is pretty strong, as it is both the birthplace of Islam and the "custodian" of the two holiest places in Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina and Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
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But at the Kollupitiya Jumma Masjid mosque, tucked away in a Colombo side street, hundreds attended a service they say was focused on a call for people of all religions to help return peace to Sri Lanka.
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The victims' tiny house of worship, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid, is part of a relatively small but growing Bangladeshi community in what was once a heavily Italian-American area better known as the turf of John Gotti.
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Last year, India's Supreme Court gave a victory to Hindu hardliners, ruling they could build a temple at the centuries-old Ayodhya holy site, where the Babri Masjid mosque was torn down by a mob in 1992.
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