Hannan Adely / North Jersey Record On the run in Turkey, Yasin Atik changed apartments four times, pulled his children out of school and avoided parks and hospitals where officers might ask for his identification. In his government's eyes, he was a supporter of terrorists. In Continue Reading
The Mosque Next Door: City Law vs. Houses of Faith
By LISA W. FODERARO BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Mohammad Ali Chaudry, a retired financial officer, has lived in this prosperous town for 40 years. It is where he raised his three children and where he served as mayor, and before that, as a member of the school board. It was also where Mr. Continue Reading
These Muslims Are Praying In A Basement While Fighting To Get Their Mosque Built
By Talal Ansari Muslims in Bayonne, New Jersey, have wanted an Islamic center and prayer hall for nearly two decades — they currently pray in the cramped basement of an elementary school. After three years of planning and fundraising, they purchased an abandoned warehouse on a dead-end street in Continue Reading