Sacramento Muslims open mosque to Easter service

[Auzer]

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento congregation was facing an Easter without a home this year until the most unlikely of locations opened their doors and welcomed them inside.

The Spiritual Life Center of Sacramento lost the lease to their church a month prior to their biggest service of the year, but Reverend Michael Moran said a dream offered hope in the face of despair.

"We were desperately looking for a place to hold our Easter services. I had a dream and in the dream I saw a newspaper headline that read, 'Easter at the Mosque'," reveals Moran. "But when I awoke, I said that will never happen."

But in an act of compassion and generosity, the Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims (SALAM) turned Moran's dream into reality.

Ifran Itaq of SALAM said the decision to allow Moran's congregation to celebrate their faith at the mosque was simple.

"For us, mosques, churches, synagogues are places where God's name is mentioned and they are holy places, and this is the sharing of those faiths in one of those institutions."


http://www.news10.net/news/local/art...Easter-service

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A very good thing. Good Christians and Muslims should come closer!

[mopat]

:salaam:

Im a bit skeptical about this story...The 'mosque' looks more like a hall, and i could'nt see anything distinctive in the hall that could resemble a musjid. Then again, the footage in the video is'nt that long, so i may be wrong...

In any case, may Allah(SWT) save us from such fitna.

[Badrud_Duja]

I heard that it was a community hall owned by the masjid or the local muslim community.

[hayya]

The main mosque we used to attend is in downtown Sacramento.

This is seems to be a new build, sort of like a mosque and community centre in one.

[Auzer]

The main mosque we used to attend is in downtown Sacramento.

This is seems to be a new build, sort of like a mosque and community centre in one.

Which mosque? The old one (that is one of the earliest mosques in the area)? We both live in/around Sac

[Abu_Tamim]

A very good thing. Good Christians and Muslims should come closer!

Yes. They should celebrate Easter and Xmas also together....in the mosque.
OMG.......I am gonna be called narrow-minded now.

[Maripat]

[abdulwahhab]

How on earth can this be a good thing? Why not then let Hindus bring their idols into a mosque and worship those as well? Mosques are places where the oneness of Allah is praised, not where polytheism should be promoted. There are fewer issues with letting Jews in a mosque for them to carry out their religious services than Christians - at least Jews aren't polytheistic.

Polytheists have been called najis in the Qur'an and there's a reason why non-Muslims, especially polytheists, are banned from entering Makkah because their polytheism is a profanity.

[sudoku]

^ Especially an Easter service.

Easter commemorates an event that never even happened. 'Eesaa Alayhis Salaam was never crucified, he did not die nor was he raised from the dead.

It really is painful when Muslims find nothing wrong with non-Muslims commiting shirk in a masjid.

[Abu Hamza Deccani]

thsi is a probable result of "interfaith dialogue' and "Multiculturalism" , "Secular-Democracy" sort of campaign endorsed by some "muslim leaders/scholars"