My Mosque

[Walks_in_islam]

Why don't you get a group of your neighbors together, make an appointment, and go down there and see for yourselves? What is worse in the imagination - the known or unknown? Pardon me but you are approaching this like you are driving by a haunted house or something. "Lock and load" (LOL not literally please) and drop in one day.

Do you really believe that the schools and community centers are being built to "evangelize?". Our community center in Houston had a clinic, legal aid center (mostly helping immigrants as I recall), a small school, and a mosque. The Muslim community for the most part stayed to themselves (evangelize? It is not like the Muslim community is welcome or anything even my wife had to be careful going out alone as the term "raghead" got tossed at her a few times from truck windows) I recall that there were always people from the area who dropped by to see what was going on including a couple of area ministers and many of the neighbors around the mosque. If any of our neighbors had an issue (examples traffic, noise, etc) they would call and we would catch hell from the Imam about respecting the community.

So go and see. The last thing the Muslim community wanted (at least in our case) was to have problems, offend, or create issues with our neighbors.