Wajir’s mosque is a modest makeshift structure unlike Gulf Arab opulence

Evidence

The adhan, the call to prayer, filled the dark sky, summoning us to the nearby mosque. It was not one of those opulent mosques with golden domes and gallant minarets reaching toward the heavens, the type of prayer houses you see in oil-rich Arab nations. This was a modest structure, a “makeshift mosque,” as a companion commented, built into the gate that wrapped around the Wajir Palace Hotel. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast between grassroots Muslim charity in Wajir and Gulf-state mosque wealth connects to the book’s broader critique of what gets seen as legitimate Islam in global media.