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‘Too many mosques’ is a good thing
Monday, March 14, 2011
By Zohra Lasania
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
U.S. Rep. Peter King, who chaired his first congressional hearing last week on “the radicalization of American Muslims,” has revealed his Islamophobic mindset with such statements as “there are too many mosques in this country.”
According to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, there are about 335,000 religious congregations in the United States. All but 12,000 are Christian. Of these, only 1,200 are Muslim.
But even if there were half as many mosques as churches, so what, Mr. King? What are you afraid of? And what do you know of mosques? Do you know what mosques are and who goes to them? (more…)