Pulpit bullies: you might think the doings in one small-town mosque don't amount to much. You would be very wrong.(American Muslim community)

"And we have raised, from among them, leaders ..."--Koran, al-Sajdah, "The Prostration," 32:24

JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ONE FRIDAY LAST DECEMBER, an Egyptian American professor of electrical engineering at West Virginia University, clad in a track suit and red-and-white checkered scarf, stepped through the green steel doors of our mosque in Morgantown, West Virginia. With a spring in his step, he took a breath of the cool night air and smiled widely as he triumphantly waved to a Muslim man by the door. Down the street, in front of the Friendship Motel, a crew ...

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