By JOSEPH DE AVILA BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—One of the oldest Christian congregations in this community said it would sell its historic church to a regional Islamic center. The United Congregational Church said Monday it plans to sell its brick Georgian-Revival style church, built in the 1920s, to Continue Reading
North Dakota Mosque a Symbol of Muslims’ Long Ties in America
By Samuel G. Freedman ROSS, N.D. — Richard Omar drove his pickup truck through the cemetery gate and pulled to a stop in sight of the scattered headstones. As he walked toward a low granite monument, his running shoes crunched the dry prairie grass and he tilted forward into an unrelenting west Continue Reading
Sharia and the Separation of Mosque and State
By Jayson Casper If sharia law is for Muslims, what is its place in a Muslim-majority nation? If the answer seems obvious, that may be part of the problem. But another part is understanding sharia law in the first place, and in a helpful article on the blog of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Continue Reading
The incredibly gracious way Muslims welcomed a man who had drunkenly shot their mosque
By Colby Itkowitz Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. It was only several months earlier, on the night of the terror attacks in Paris, Continue Reading