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Evacuation due to Muslim prayers sparks debate
Boston Globe ^ | 05/16/2002 | Ray Henry, Globe Correspondent

Posted on 05/17/2002 10:23:07 AM PDT by Notforprophet

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

TOUGHTON - The four men emerged Tuesday night from a restroom at BJ's Wholesale Club dressed in fatigue jackets. They took off their shoes and began praying loudly in a language that sounded like Arabic.

Alarmed, customers rushed to the store manager, demanding to know who the men were and what they were doing. When the men left without a word of explanation, the manager called Stoughton police. Within 30 minutes, the police had evacuated the BJ's and called in firetrucks and a State Police bomb squad from Stow.


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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: evacuation; muslim; prayer
If this had been a group of Pentecostal seminary students who decided to suddenly have 'prayer time' they would have been run out of town.
1 posted on 05/17/2002 10:23:07 AM PDT by Notforprophet
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