Open Mosque Day — Muslims Serve Up Tea and Taqiyyah

A Summary Report on Open Mosque Day in Southern California
October 27, 2013
Prepared by a team of activist investigators
Sunday, October 27, 2013 was Open Mosque Day at 23 mosques and Islamic Centers in Southern California. California has 246 mosques – 120 of them in the Southern California area. It is second only to the Greater New York area with 192 mosques. An invitation communiqué from the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California  assured non-Muslims that “Muslims are happy to answer questions about their religion.”
An  Orange County Register article on the Open Mosque Day event noted:
Roughly 500,000 Muslims from 100 different ethnic backgrounds live in Southern California. The event has been successful in helping local Muslim organizations develop rapport with other religious communities.
“We have seen very formalized relationships between mosques and churches and mosques and synagogues,” said Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council. “And that has really resulted in working together in coalitions and alliances and (on) issues that impact not just a particular group of individuals but many religious organizations.”
Syed cited a number of instances in which Christian and Jewish groups in Southern California have stood by Muslims, and vice versa – a direct result of the relationships built through past Open Mosque Days.
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