I actually had a scene in the film, which is, is not actually shot or in the film, where it's a Bart station and there's a maulana, there's a priest, you know from the mosque , mosque who's wearing tradition outfit and he's just approaching this bench to wait for the next train to come and from the other side there's, there's a guy who's just donewith his baseball practics-, practice, you know?
violence against sunnis violence against Shiites tended to occur in the daytime in public places with bombs in Shiite mosque and Shiite marketplaces the way to counter that was to put up checkpoints and walls aroundMosk and marketplaces and if a bomb went off at the checkpoint and killed two soldiers that was an improvement over
of redundancy is fine, but there's--. Clearly everybody's going to have to give blood at the blood bank in terms of this budget crisis. The national security industrial complex shouldn't mosques and public marketplaces. They're killing lots of Pakistani civilians." Was that a tactical thing, was that a religious thing, was it both? Probably a little bit of both. Al Qaeda
of Exeter. His dissertation was about how convert communities can work to prevent terrorism. The mosque serves a largely Afro-Caribbean, largely convert population. And many of those who are not converts immigrated to Britain from other countries. Among its worshippers were Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, and Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber.
you know, but notice uh because of course you also mentioned that uh earlier to me, Aziza, that you couldn't even step inside the mosque to watch the man you'd come to cover get married. Explain to me why and how it made you feel.
So we always think about new-- we're working on a drone system that will help. I go to mosque .
of the architecture. And it has patterns. Like the mosque in Aleppo, the floor is full of different golden paintings, like a whole set of superb Mondrians covering the floor. And from there you leave.
how they could do in these special enclaves, you know. You see the Blue Mosque .
how they could do in these special enclaves, you know. There Suleiman Mosque and all of that who follow almost the same archetypical plan.
So just to give you another example of a concrete campaign that we've been working on over the last few weeks, there is a self-declared female imam in Berlin who has established a mosque , where men and women can come together to pray together, where LGBTQ people are welcome, where Jews, Christians, atheists are welcome.
So the building I've just been describing, that spiritual heart of Damascus, looks like this now. This is the mosque that the Muslims built back in the 7th century. And you can see straight away how blended that is, just looking at it, with the dome there, which is reminiscent of the Byzantine style
This is what I confronted. This is the Sankore mosque , which was built in the 14th century. The typical architecture of that period, when it was really a unique architecture that's sort of influenced by the Egyptian pyramids
Well, take a look. This is a mosque interior from Shiraz. And you see lots of symmetrical elements.
that space of worship because there isn't constant monitoring, you see? So, that's actually what we, what, what was going on rather than saying its like, "Oh, everybody that goes to a mosque is, is like that." Because that's sort of a narrow view to take, to take of it. Whereas, I mean, and the, the fact of the matter is that Rizwan prays when it's his time to pray, no matter where he is. So, a building actually does not, does not to him
sphere women joke among themselves about sex and men can take any manner of sex question to the religious scholar at their local mosque the private sphere is very tolerant when such topics are hauled into the light of day however the problems
north of Baghdad which destroyed a Shia uh mosque called um this um asaria Shrine very very important mosque and Shia Islam and it created basically a sectarian civil war between the Shia majority and the Sunni minority in in Iraq and Shia were out there death squads you know killing Sunni in Revenge
It's also known as the medieval Manhattan. These buildings are, umm, eight stories tall made of mud and palm fronds. It's the mosque in the middle that I'm about to buzz. And, umm, this is after I had a bad take-off in China.
Don't underestimate those mosques and temples and synagogues and churches and Native American ceremonies and prayer circles
at two mosques in Christchurch and livestreamed his attack.
to go speak at mosques and talk about his conversion.
So there are definitely mosques that are LGBT welcoming.
And it's normal at Christmas and Easter for Muslims to go into the churches, and it's normal for Christians to go into the mosques . All the mosques in Syria are open to everybody. You can go in there.
outside the state who contact mosque uh who contact Islamic organizations like
And he decided to blow up the mosque in his hometown because he thought he was doing the right thing.
and the safety of the mosque .
how they could do in these special enclaves, you know. You see towards the rest of the mosque done by these extraordinary architects.
And the story of Al Nuri Mosque is-- unfortunately, it's-- So it's beyond the United Arab Emirates.
Because everybody goes to the mosque before lunch.
And you go into the mosque , you see the architecture, the calligraphy exceptionally beautiful designed out of love, love to venerate the divine.
This time it was in a Baltimore mosque .
And the imam at the mosque was quite taken with him and said, you have a real gift for speech.
And he's an imam at a mosque in San Diego.
And the internet becomes his mosque .
see her at The Shrine mosque in Springfield Missouri that's where we went to high school and college and uh at The Shrine mosque and
White supremacists who drive their cars into mosques .
uh individuals uh were murdered at at a mosque in in Southern California. One of
being allowed to do my work simply because of my gender, that made me feel very bad. And I did not see any woman around the premises of of of of the mosque during the the wedding ceremony because the grooms were inside with other friends signing the marriage documents. No one was was allowed. And I I had to ask why that was. And most of
And the streets-- there is in Jerusalem a relationship between these panels and the environment. So it becomes a total city environment-- the mosque where the church becomes the heart of a city or the focus. And the Dome of the Rock is exactly that kind of focus for the city.
So when I talk about rebuilding Al Nuri Mosque -- and this is a directive we got from the government, to go to Baghdad, announce rebuilding the mosque .
And who will help us in building the Al Nuri Mosque are also the youth in Mosul and the youth in Baghdad.
But a church agency will also work with a mosque if you bring in a lot of interfaith groups.
He was led along that street and up into the Christian quarter, where he was cured of his sight. And that the spiritual heart of the center is that big mosque image there, in the center at number 11. That has always been the spiritual heart of the city.
You can go in there. I spent hours in the courtyard of this mosque , just sitting there. You can have a picnic.
And so he engineered an attack like this, and then showed it to the media, and showed his own army coming in to save the inhabitants, And his tomb is inside the Aleppo Umayyad mosque .
There was also this guy who was of a mosque , which means he calls the prayer.
And Anwar started to spend more and more time at this mosque and decided that he didn't want to be an engineer
were Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, and Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber. But neither of those men was radicalized at the Brixton Mosque . The mosque is Salafi. It is fundamentalist, hardline, but absolutely non-violent. Reid left the mosque because he was dissatisfied with its non-violence. Moussaoui was kicked out for his aggressive
the history of this um in February of 2006 there was this huge bombing in Samara which is a pilgrimage town just north of Baghdad which destroyed a Shia uh mosque called um this um asaria Shrine very very important mosque and Shia Islam and it created basically a sectarian civil war between the Shia
into these gender rigidities that a lot of mosques and in clothing rigidity.
I spent the next decade in megachurches and mosques and Mormon temples.