The first underwater mosque, off the coast of Saudi Arabia?
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aziz
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aziz
The Pew Forum has an awesome interactive map of
mosquemasjid controversies across the US:
(click to enlarge)and I took the opportunity to collect some excellent links debunking the impending threat of a. shari’a takeover in the US, b. Eurabia, and c. th emuslim brotherhood as global bogeyman.
(and I’ve decided to try and stop using the word mosque.)
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Shams al-Nahar
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aziz
who leaked in your cheerios this morning?
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shams
thabet.
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midwinterspring
In the Muslim countries I have visited (Turkey, Tunisia, and Egypt) buildings entirely dedicated to prayer are referred to as jami’a (cami in Turkish, Gam’a in Egypt). Mesjid tends to be used for prayer rooms and the like.
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aziz
i suspect the term “jamieh” is a variant of “jame” or “jumu’a” – basically, teh bigger masjids for Friday services (at which tehre are sermons, ie khutbahs).
its an adjective, as far as I know, applied to the noun. I could be mistaken, so hopefully if so someone will correct me.
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Hicham Maged
Azizi, you’re right. I think midwinterspring meant the term “Jameh” or Al-Jami’ (with apostrophe) to pronounce it right according to the Arabic language.
It is an adjective for the masjid where Friday Prayers (Al-Jumu’a) is performed and the whole sentence is Al-Masjid Al-Jami or the Great
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Hicham Maged
OOPS! Aziz, I’ve no idea why your name is always written with an extra (i) – duh!
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midwinterspring
I’m not an expert, of course, but جامع is used as a noun to refer to mosques in the countries I mentioned. Masjid can be used, too, of course, but جامع is more common in my experience, particularly for actual mosques rather than prayer spaces. For example, the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, the Sidi Uqba Mosque in Kairouan, and every mosque in Turkey.
Now these are all proper names, so perhaps masjid is more correct for mosques in general. I don’t know about that.
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Hicham Maged
Don’t worry, you aren’t wrong. I was replying Aziz (without an extra “i” this time) informing him that his assumption are right. Nevertheless like you said, majority of Egyptians usually refer to masjid as Jami’ (or Jameh). Moreover, these majority don’t usually pronounce (J) but (G), so Jami’ (or Jameh) proncunced as (Gameh).
I’ve no idea about the exact reason on why they refer to the prayer spaces as Jami’ (or Jameh) instead of Masjid or al-Masjid al-Jami.
Anyway, as far as I know, Al-Masjid is the one that witness the daily prayers only, while Al-Masjid Al-Jami is the one that witness this + Friday prayers (Salat ul-Jumu’ah) + i’tikaf in the last 10 days of Ramadan + Eid Prayers (Salat ul-Eid).
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mirelle
Tea Party leader Mark Williams expresses his unbelievably insane and totally crazy opinion about a masjid being built near the World Trade Center site (ht Talking Points Memo). You can read quotes from Williams’ nasty screed over there; I see no need to repeat his garbage–but I think people need to be very much aware of it. Apparently this is not a problem for the Tea Party Express group that he’s linked to. I don’t know if Fox News, to which he’s apparently been a contributor in the past, has been contacted for its opinion.
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aziz
I was disappointed in Rabbi Brad’s post, too, which was not unhinged but suffered the same base assumption flaws. Though I am not surprised.
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shams
definitely a teatard.
the posts he hits on are related to the TPM.
alas, the negative correlation of IQ and religiosity triumphs again.
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Andrea Useem
Remember Hijabman’s great commentary on High Fructose Masjids? Muslims aren’t the only one with a problem. A prof at Purdue finds members of Southern Baptist churches are more likely than others to be obese. But a bunch of churches are kicking their congregants in the rear, promoting health and fitness. Any masjids out there doing the same? How about Muslim yoga?
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muse
Yoga is haram sister, it is from the Hindoos.
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shams and 
muse is discussing. 
yes….. why don’t you use ‘muslim church’ instead.
that will be better for interfaith dialog.