Posted on 05/13/2005 3:58:55 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - Hundreds of worshipers gathered on Friday for the first prayer session at a gilded new mosque that is yet another facility to serve the large Muslim population around Detroit.
A gold-domed mosque flanked by two minarets and a banquet hall were part of a $14 million expansion project to a Muslim school that, taken together, is now the Islamic Center of America, a 70,000 square-foot facility.
When a 700-seat auditorium and a two-story library and school are also completed, it will likely become the largest Islamic center in North America, Muslim officials said.
"The center is a symbol of the sharp growth and advancement of our Muslim community," Imam Hassan al-Qazwini, the spiritual leader of the mosque, told Reuters.
The main prayer hall accomodates 1,000 people, including 700 men in one area and 300 women in a balcony.
Builders imported doors from Turkey, wood from the Phillipines, granite from India and Brazil, and chandeliers from Egypt, said Alan Abbas, who built the center.
"It has been a labor of love," said Abbas, an immigrant from Lebanon.
The mosque is only a few miles from the new Arab American National Museum, the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to Arab Americans. It also opened doors this month.
Al-Qazwini said a major goal of the new mosque will be to reach out to non-Muslims to educate people about Islam.
"The center will offer a great opportunity for non-Muslims to come and learn about Islam," he said. "There are many misconceptions existing in the mind of non-Muslims in this country about Islam, unfortunately."
I can't believe the silence of the NOW gang on this subject, truly deafening.
We must think alike. My first thought on reading the headline was, "Ground Zero!"
I am depressed. I cannot imagine why your lawmakers are failing to stop these Islamists. Europe is finished....now they want to Islamize America. Unfortunately, with the US lawmakers including Prez.Bush and Condi Rice saying "Islam is peaceful", inspite of the gory beheadings of Nick Berg and others, US government and its courts are infact bending over backwards to accomodate these people. These violent backward people of Islam follow the violent book of Jihad aka the moon god's book by pedophile. Islamists, just as history proves, will suck up all the resources of a nation or civilization and later on when they become a sizable population, claim that the host nation belongs to them because as per the pedophile of moongod, entire earth is a Mosque. So in their minds, they already lay claim to the entire Earth. Something needs to be done.....If any nation can withstand the colonization of Islamists and fight back with vigour, then it is the ONE and ONLY Americans.
One day, I hope USA will defeat the Islamic idealogy and elect the politicians that does not play Dhimmi like the Eurabians aka Europians. Forget about tolerance. It is illogical to tolerate Islamic cult that has pillaged and raped civilizations and peoples of nations......and is still aggressively plundering the wealth and resources of Europe and USA.
Glad they were able to find that stuff somewhere, since we don't have doors, wood, granite, or chandeliers here in America.
Yup. We Thrive on diverrrrrrrrsity, don'tcha know? The melting pot of the world boils up another surface layer of slag.
Bomb-vest factory for a death cult.
Excellent.
Then there's hope for this monstrosity, too.
Not with Jenny Granholm as governor. The Detroit suburbs are such a small portion of the state. A powerful, but SMALL portion.
My guess is a PPsH 43,
No, it's not a PPsH. An Uzi or Czech subgun?
Exactly. THERE CAN BE NO REFORMATION OF ISLAM.
The ONLY reformation is to return to the original biblical text, reject the cult of Mohammedism and become a Jew or a Christian.
"We come in peace to show you the error of your ways, you silly people"
Shut up, she is a mere slave who would become a dirty whore if left to her own devices. Best to describe he in terms of raw meat.
Rush has said that the best thing to dampen criticism of the US is to export liberalism abroad.
Countries have frowned on US race relations until they discovered their own immigrant populations that did not want to assimilate and did not want to defend the "new" homeland.
Social support structures work until economic refugees cause the equations to go off balance. When a political refugee crosses 4 countries to get to "safety" they are not seeking escape from tyranny, they are seeking a new life altogether. As such, they should be subject to the same conditions all immigrants face. They do not move to the front of the list.
I like that it cost $14million and serves 1,000.
Where DID the money go?
Then again Saddam was building a Grand Mosque with the design of his fingerprint (so Allah could see it) for over $1billion with a French architect firm designing it.
South Canukistan.
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Room and board is paid for. Sex, whether you want it or not.
A slacker's paradise.
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