In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy scathingly wrote of a protagonist whose life was “most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” Such may also be said of the ruling put forth by Tennessee judge Robert Corlew, who made the unremarkable determination that “Islam is a religion,” thereby permitting the
Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided that the time had come to build a proper mosque.
For 20 years or more, the town’s roughly 250 Muslim families had met for prayers in makeshift quarters, and [...]
A handwriting expert testified Friday that she uncovered a secret plot by who knows how many Middle Tennessee Muslims to sign documents, including a site plan application to build a mosque in a rural area zoned for religious meeting places.
Under cross-examination, the expert said she had no way of knowing if the documents she was [...]
Bless their hearts.
That about sums up Azmi Mukahal’s attitude toward critics of his faith and the mosque in Murfreesboro.
“We need to ignore it,” he said. “We are all Americans. We need to live together.”
Mukahal, who immigrated to the U.S. 22 years ago from Kuwait, said he has better things to do [...]
Islam is a valid religion that is entitled to constitutional protection, said a U.S. attorney who stepped into a debate about a proposed mosque and Islamic center in Tennessee.
“To suggest that Islam is not a religion is quite simply ridiculous,” said U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin of Nashville in a statement Monday (Oct. 18). “Each [...]
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