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Pastor Seeking to Protest at Mosque Briefly Jailed

DEARBORN, Mich. -- A Florida pastor's planned demonstration outside a Michigan mosque was scuttled Friday after a jury determined the protest would constitute a breach of the peace and he was briefly jailed for refusing to pay what authorities called a "peace bond." The Rev. Terry Jones, whose past rhetoric against...

Suicide Bomber Injures Dozens at Indonesian Mosque

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A suicide bomber blew himself up as police were praying Friday, wounding 28 people in the first attack on a mosque since extremists started targeting the predominantly Muslim country a decade ago. The victims -- including a local police chief -- were rushed to hospitals with nails, nuts and bolts...

Islamic Center's Bid for Federal Funds Draws Fire

(Nov. 23) --The developers of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero are seeking federal redevelopment grants reportedly worth $5 million, further infuriating some families and first responders. "I think it's an insult to the 9/11 families. It's another smack in the face," retired Deputy Fire...

Governor Among the Dead in Afghan Mosque Blast

KABUL, Afghanistan (Oct. 8) -- A massive bomb blast at a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed 15 people Friday, including a provincial governor who had survived a series of assassination attempts, officials said. More than 20 people were wounded in the explosion during Friday prayers at the Shirkat mosque in Takhar...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'

(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank....

Background on mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning "place of worship" or "prostration in prayer", from the Arabic sajada, meaning "to bow down in prayer" or "worship", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

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