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Two men sit on sofa with large books in laps, pointing at texts and talking

How hate and debate came to a Connecticut mosque

Conflict

Two years after a neighbor shot at their mosque, a leader at the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden has found an unlikely companion to show people true Islam: a local 76-year-old who is convinced organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood are plotting to impose Islamic law on America.

How hate and debate came to a Connecticut mosque
Muslim men gathered in a basement transformed into a a prayer room in the neighborhood of Agios Nikolaos, in Athens

Athens doesn't have a single mosque, so Muslims worship in makeshift prayer rooms

Belief
Athens doesn't have a single mosque, so Muslims worship in makeshift prayer rooms
Woman at front of room in mosque

They gave her the keys to the mosque — and now she wants to open its doors to the neighborhood

Religion
They gave her the keys to the mosque — and now she wants to open its doors to the neighborhood
Marwah Maasarani and her husband Omar Awad watching Donald Trump's RNC speech in their New Jersey livingroom on Thursday.

Here's what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump's RNC speech

Election 2016
Here's what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump's RNC speech
mosqueMuslim women arrive for the prayer service at the Women's Mosque of America in downtown Los Angeles in January. The mosque, the first of its kind in the US, launched with a women-led prayer service.

America's first all-female mosque is receiving praise — and some pushback

Belief
America's first all-female mosque is receiving praise — and some pushback
An image of Westminster Cathedral, which a local branch of the UK Independence Party mistook for a mosque.

When is a mosque not really a mosque? Ask the UK Independence Party

Global Politics

What began as a standard report by the BBC's Giles Dilnot turned into a Twitter meme that backfired against the UK Independence Party, the anti-immigrant upstart of British politics. The mistake over the BBC's supposed use of a "mosque" might mean the start of American "gaffe" obsession in Britain.

When is a mosque not really a mosque? Ask the UK Independence Party