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A New Mosque Rises—in Alaska
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 8/14/14 | Tamara Audi

Posted on 08/23/2014 6:46:21 AM PDT by marshmallow

Construction Is Part of a Building Boom Nationwide as Muslim Population Rises

ANCHORAGE—On the edge of this northern outpost an unfamiliar sight is emerging: twin minarets. Alaska's small but growing Muslim community is building the state's first newly constructed mosque.

"This is our future," said Osama Obeidi, one of the Muslim-Americans leading the building effort for the Islamic Community Center of Anchorage. "We have second-generation Alaskans now, and new people coming all the time. We need a place to call home."

The 15,000-square-foot mosque, taking shape near a Sons of Norway Viking Hall, will eventually include a Sunday school and a community center. Heated floors will make worship in the bitter winters more comfortable.

The mosque is perhaps the clearest sign yet that Islam in the U.S. is rapidly pushing beyond traditional population centers such as Detroit and Los Angeles. As the number of American Muslims grows through both immigration and higher-than-average birthrates, domes and minarets are sprouting in areas as varied as the eastern mountains of Kentucky and Louisiana's parishes.

The building boom reflects American Muslims' desire for a sense of permanence as their religion shifts from one mainly imported by immigrants to one practiced by their American-born children and grandchildren, Muslim leaders say.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


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The 15,000-square-foot mosque, taking shape near a Sons of Norway Viking Hall, will eventually include a Sunday school.....

Sunday is the Muslim holy day. Who new?

1 posted on 08/23/2014 6:46:21 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Doomed Western Civ is.


2 posted on 08/23/2014 6:47:53 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Should never happen, it would be built when they allow Christians and Jews to build in their islamic countries.


3 posted on 08/23/2014 6:48:17 AM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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“Alaska’s small but growing Muslim community”

Another sign of the slow but sure death of the West.

Thank you Obama, Bush, and other open doors presidents and congresses.


4 posted on 08/23/2014 6:48:57 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: marshmallow

Burn that sucker down. The time to treat an infection is when it starts.


5 posted on 08/23/2014 6:51:20 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: marshmallow

A New Mosque Rises—in Alaska

Wrong - A New Terrorist Training Center Rises—in Alaska


6 posted on 08/23/2014 6:51:47 AM PDT by JayAr36 (A Democrat is defined as a liar and a hypocrite.)
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To: marshmallow

Islam does NOT have sunday school....this reporter has been drinkimg Kool-Aid ....


7 posted on 08/23/2014 6:54:22 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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8 posted on 08/23/2014 6:57:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Naw, I have heard it on good authority they are going to use these freshly hatched muzzies for bear bait when the time comes. Their call to prayers gobbledegook sounds like a wounded moose.


9 posted on 08/23/2014 7:01:05 AM PDT by biff (WAS)
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Will they use the Burnt Out frame of Sarah Palin’s Asroned Church to build it I wonder?


10 posted on 08/23/2014 7:01:46 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: marshmallow

A future terrorist training school and ammo dump all rolled into one.Who would have believed it would be in Alaska of all places?


11 posted on 08/23/2014 7:02:04 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Yes, and then drive them out...

Some place needs to set the example, start ridding communities of the ideology of death and destruction, root it out.

We all need to stop referring to this deadly, infected, festering scab on humanity as a religion, it is a conglomeration of only the very worst aspects of communism, fascism, marxism, nazism.

12 posted on 08/23/2014 7:02:50 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: marshmallow

Is it a mosque or a mooseque?


13 posted on 08/23/2014 7:13:21 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: cripplecreek

Never knew VA had that many muslims.

Can we even class VA home of Stonewall Jackson, and Lee as part of the south anymore.


14 posted on 08/23/2014 7:19:14 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Thank you Obama, Bush, and other open doors presidents and congresses............................................... Most of the thanks can go to our great statesman and Senator from Massachusetts the great champion of immigration, (and World Class Swimmer) Teddy Kennedy! s/


15 posted on 08/23/2014 7:20:54 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Hillary or Warren 2016! Why? Just to have a woman for Historical Purpose?? At least pick a looker!)
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To: marshmallow

Yet another place for Muslims to kill.


16 posted on 08/23/2014 7:31:52 AM PDT by FT hotcake
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They built this abomination in NW OH [1980-83] and it can be seen from I-75. No further comment other than it was the third in America and first to use traditional architecture. Ptui.
17 posted on 08/23/2014 7:42:46 AM PDT by W. (Congress: Never bet against their ability to grow stupidity exponentially.)
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To: manc

Muzzies in Virginia are mostly in the Northern Virginia D.C. metro area, plus Richmond.

Most of the rest of the state is true to the memories of Gen. Thomas Jackson and Gen. Robert E. Lee.


18 posted on 08/23/2014 7:42:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: marshmallow

I don’t have a password to read the article. Does it mention where the funding for the mosque is coming from?


19 posted on 08/23/2014 7:43:35 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: marshmallow

Daily weapons inspections I hope.


20 posted on 08/23/2014 7:51:28 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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