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Barack Obama

Obama shifts focus to religious liberty and Muslims

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama focused on religious pluralism during the past several days, bookending the annual National Prayer Breakfast Thursday in the nation's capital with a visit to a mosque Wednesday and a column discussing religious freedom in America published Saturday. In the column, signed by the president

Barack Obama

Obama visits mosque tied to controversial imams

CATONSVILLE, Md. — President Barack Obama paid his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, but he chose one that has ties with controversial teachers and leaders, including one who has preached that homosexuality is immoral and "something which we despise." A former leader of the mosque,

Faith

American mosques trying to protect bodies and spirits from hate

(RNS) — Following a surge of attacks on mosques and Muslims — a backlash against recent extremist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino — Islamic leaders have been installing more security cameras and hiring more security guards. But as they worry about the physical safety of their flocks, they are also paying attention

Islamic

Mosque vandalism in Burlington leads to call for hate-crime probe

BURLINGTON – Two local teenagers face charges in connection with damage to a mosque in an early Sunday incident that an Islamic group decried as an example of a rising tide of hate crimes targeting Muslims and their places of worship. Responding to a 1:45 a.m. call Sunday, police