A distant mosque massacre permanently shapes how Muslims everywhere experience Friday prayer

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“It’s sad, because I’ll always relate that day to the early days of my relationship and future marriage,” Dunya stated. That sentiment, while forlorn, was hardly unique. Muslims everywhere will always remember what they were doing, who they were with, and where they prayed—indeed, especially where they prayed—that Friday. A Friday when fifty-one of their sisters and brothers were massacred in the halls of two mosques on the opposite side of the world, an attack which hit—powerfully and permanently—so close to home. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 891

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• XREF: connects to: Friday prayers converted mosque congregations into revolutionary demonstrators — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 221