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Posted on 06/04/2011 10:51:47 AM PDT by americanophile
When empty, the local mosque on 10 1/2 Street is a cozy two-story, 1,550-square-foot home on the edge of the UVA campus. Come time for Friday prayer, however, fitting 150 people comfortably in a 600-square-foot prayer space is a challenge. Many area Muslims are forced to pray outside the building.
Soon, space will cease to be a problem. Just a short drive away, on Pine Street, the Islamic Society of Central Virginia’s (ISCV) new, 10,000-square-foot masjid—the Arabic word for mosque—is under construction. The new, three-story building will feature a main prayer space on the second floor, with space upstairs for Sunday school classes and social purposes. According to Khan Hassan, a member of ISCV’s Board of Trustees, the society serves about 2,000 families from Charlottesville and surrounding counties. While many members are UVA students and faculty, a large number of the members are refugees from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Burma, Ghana and Iraq.
“There are so many ‘ifs’ in question [in construction], but we are very optimistic now and are looking at the next 10 to 12 weeks,” says Hassan.
The history of the new mosque has a few “ifs”—from multiple requests for zoning exemptions to a national political climate that has occasionally turned fears about politically radical Islam into vague anxiety about a religious tradition. Hassan says local interest in a larger prayer space and study center dates back 20 years. UVA architecture students drew the first blueprints for the building and found the lot on Pine Street, which ISCV bought for $44,000 in 1999.
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UVa is about to get a lesson in “diversity” they won’t be able to forget.
lol
Wish I had a large ‘Piglet’ magnet to put on my car and park nearby.
Or a large plastic pig on roof of car ala a ribs delivery car.
What a way to ruin the neighborhood....and COUNTRY! Right in DC’s backyard.....
A mosque with Sunday School classes?
N.VA is already a Muzzie swamp.
http://www.cafepress.com/+piglet_rectangle_magnet,355188813
Hope the FBI saved some money and planted listening devices during construction so they don’t have to pay informants or employees to infiltrate.
plenty more even closer to DC.
...Dar-es-Salaam in College Park Maryland for example.
(as americanophile correctly noted, they are more common near Universities. And the Foreign students give them a good core of enthusiastic “foot soldiers”.)
Can’t some local freeper put a few pigs through a wood chipper aimed at that property?
Build some Christian Churches in Saudi Arabia and hand out tracts on street corners!
Follow the money trail for building the mosque and you’ll see it end up in Saudi.
The number of mosques built is disproportional to the number of muslims in the country.
excellent point.
most Americans don’t know, that there are NO Churches, ZERO, in Saudi Arabia. even though they have many imported Christian slav... workers.
in an Islamic country, it is forbidden to build Churches. even if somewhat secular Indonesia, it is almost impossible.
if more Americans knew this, it might be a great way of making them understand Islam. Most Americans are very tolerant of other religions. but, we have an innate sense of fairness. and when Saudi Arabia builds Masjids here, and refuses to allow ANY in Saudi... it strikes a nerve in most true Americans...
Seminars on wife beating and bomb building?
Don’t forget genital mutilation and the destruction of artwork/literature.
Totally right. They have spent billions exporting Islam.
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