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• n  (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret

• The mosque was full of blood and wounded people, dead people.
• The whole world is a mosque, the Prophet Muhammad once said.
• The flames that gutted a wing of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque last August added an unwanted measure of heat and hatred to a conflict that is never far from flash point.

News & Articles

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• Quiet Mali town, despite fighting nearby, gathers to honor its renowned mosque
  Early in the morning, just before the muezzin calls to early Muslim prayer, Bakary Touré steps out the door of his low mud-brick home. He walks the hundred yards across Djenné’s main square to the city’s great mosque, where the whole town is waiting.
  June 12, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
• Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43
  BAQUBA, Iraq — Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks
  June 11, 2013 - Denver Post
• Despite federal order, DuPage delays decision on mosque
  In an unexpected move, the DuPage County Board put off a vote Tuesday morning to comply with a federal order that would allow a mosque to be built near Naperville. The Irshad Learning Center recently won several major points in a lawsuit it filed after the board denied permission in 2009 to use a residential lot for worship and gathering purposes. “We embrace the order, we respect the order, we ...
  June 11, 2013 - WBEZ 91.5 Chicago

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Detroit Free Press
  Maulana Abdul Aziz is still the prayer leader of the mosque. The blood of martyrs will bear fruit. This struggle will reach its destination of an Islamic revolution. Musharraf is a killer of the constitution. He's a killer of male and female... Liaqat Baloch http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaqat_Baloch&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGRGYg_2jrfPm_PAEzSyohCct3T3g FOX News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291063,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGyk5c-PdAwmkkuGTTqiXI8SGyUfg Jul 27, 2007 65378 86735 mosque Freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion," Obama said. "That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union. ...... That's why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of...
• Louis Farrakhan in International Herald Tribune
  We have restored Mosque Maryam completely, and we will dedicate it to the universal message of Islam, and the universal aspect of the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad,Farrakhan said in an invitation letter. "It represents for the...