Tag: Mosques

Navigating Israeli Restrictions, Many Palestinians Find It Hard to Reach Al Aqsa

As the sermon about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan sounded over the speakers from Al Aqsa Mosque, 13-year-old Yousef al-Sideeq sat on a bench outside the compound’s gates. “Most Fridays they prevent me from getting in, for no reason,” the young Jerusalem resident said, referring to the Israeli police. Every Friday, Yousef visits Jerusalem’s […]

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Israel Rejects New Restrictions to Aqsa Mosque During Ramadan

The Israeli government has decided against putting new restrictions on access to an important mosque in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a move that may reduce tensions at a site that has long been a flashpoint for unrest. At a meeting on Tuesday night led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, security officials […]

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Why India’s New Ram Temple Is So Important

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a gigantic new temple in the Indian city of Ayodhya on Monday, the conclusion of a mostly 20th-century odyssey in which Hindu nationalists eventually tore down a centuries-old mosque that has now been replaced with a structure devoted to the Hindu deity Ram. Leading up to the temple’s consecration, […]

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He Loved Basketball and Wanted to Help His Family Stores. A Bullet Ended It All.

He loved to play basketball with his friends. He dreamed of studying business administration to help his family’s stores. He enjoyed taking care of his younger siblings and was “very polite, very respectful, very intelligent,” according to his mosque’s president. Then, suddenly, a bullet to his head ended everything. A Palestinian-American teenager was killed by […]

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Imam Is Critically Wounded in Shooting Outside New Jersey Mosque

An imam was shot and critically wounded outside a New Jersey mosque on Wednesday, the authorities said. The police responded to the scene of the shooting, the Masjid Muhammad mosque in Newark, shortly after 6 a.m., according to Fritz Fragé, Newark’s public safety director. The victim, whom the police identified as an imam at the […]

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In a Place Called Little Palestine, People Feel Afraid. And Forgotten.

The mood has been dark lately in the Palestine Hair Salon. The TVs behind the barbers’ chairs play a stream of war images that repeat across the mirrored walls: children in Gaza crying, men clawing at rubble, the wounded carried on planks through the streets of Rafa. Raed Odeh is the owner and top barber […]

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What Is Happening in Vermont?

There were more examples of generosity, Mr. al-Amoody said. Among the hundreds of emails he received in the days after the shooting were numerous offers of help, including one from a non-Muslim woman in the college town of Middlebury, about an hour south of Burlington, offering lodging and a car to the students, who are […]

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