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Sharon Mosque

Coordinates:42°5′45″N71°11′43″W/ 42.09583°N 71.19528°W/42.09583; -71.19528
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Sharon Mosque
Location
LocationSharon, Massachusetts,United States
Geographic coordinates42°5′45″N71°11′43″W/ 42.09583°N 71.19528°W/42.09583; -71.19528
Architecture
TypeMosque
Date established1993

TheSharon Mosqueis amosquelocated inSharon, Massachusetts,United States.

History

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The mosque was founded in 1993 as an extension of theIslamic Center of New England(ICNE) which was established byLebanese Americanimmigrants inQuincy,Massachusetts.The mosque is situated on 55 acres formerly used for a horse farm. The main building is a social hall large enough to accommodate 500 people.[1]

School

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The second building behind the mosque houses an Islamic elementary school, Al Noor School, and weekend school.[1]Former president of the school, Abdul Badi Abousamra was a prominent Boston doctor, Muslim activist, and father ofAhmad Abousamra,who is on theFBI Most Wanted Terroristslist.[2]

Imams

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Talal Eidwas the first Imam of the Sharon mosque as well as the sister mosque in Quincy.[3]Eid left ICNE in 2005 after creeping radicalism put him increasingly at odds in the late 1990s with the board of directors.[4]

In 1998,Muhammad Masoodbecame Imam of the Sharon Mosque. In November 2006, he was detained by federal immigration agents for visa violations. In August 2007, he was arrested on criminal visa fraud charges. He pled guilty to five counts of visa fraud and volunteered for deportation in February 2008.[5]After leaving the country, he became spokesman for the Pakistani terrorist organizationJamaat-ud-Dawah.[6]

Interim Imam and Egyptian native, Khalid Nasr, was Imam of both Sharon andQuincy Mosques.[7]After a difficult search, Abdur Rahman Ahmad, became the new Imam in 2015.[8][9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"Islamic Center of New England at Sharon | The Pluralism Project".pluralism.org.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  2. ^Anderson, Karen (2014-10-15)."FBI on Mass. terror suspect: 'Don't know where he is, what he's doing'".WCVB.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  3. ^"Islamic community at odds over post".Boston.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  4. ^Singman, Brooke (2015-07-26)."Moderate imam reveals how radicals won battle for soul of Boston mosques".Fox News.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  5. ^abLambert, Lane."Deported imam expects to be 'a stranger in my own country'".The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  6. ^"Pakistani brothers reflect their country's contradictions".Washington Post.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  7. ^abPreer, Robert (18 May 2008)."A Muslim leader in Quincy reaches out - The Boston Globe".Boston.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  8. ^Service, Omar Sacirbey Religion News (2012-06-26)."Pool Of American Imams Too Small To Meet The Demand".The Huffington Post.Retrieved2016-11-16.
  9. ^ab"Islamic Center of New England: Quincy: Sharon » Imam Abdul Rahman Ahmad".icne.net.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-03-25.Retrieved2016-11-16.
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