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Today's Picture: Feds Move to Seize an Islamic School

November 13, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country


(AP Photo / Stephen Chernin)

Students arrive at the Razi School in Queens, N.Y., part of a mosque that the federal government is seizing as part of a suit against the Alavi Foundation, an alleged Iranian front group. The government is moving to seize four mosques owned by Alavi. But their tenants are not being charged, and the mosques may continue to operate as houses of worship.

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ALWAYS SAY ALLAH IS THE ONLY ONE

ABDUL NASIR KHAN of PA 6:45AM October 29, 2010

We've had decades of banned religion in the former Soviet Union, and to a lesser degree in Nazi Germany. Was there world peace without religion in those atheistic empires? You should really brush up on your history.

JOE INCORONATO of NY 11:59AM November 16, 2009

Christianity is the belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

harvey of WA 6:15PM November 14, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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