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30 mosques in 30 days in 30 states, California included

30-mosques-30-days.jpg30 Mosques in 30 States is the blog of Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq’s Ramadan-month road trip across the United States to New York. They began Aug. 1 in Alaska, with Ali posting on day 4 from the Ta’Leef Collective in the Bay Area: "I’ve been to hundreds of mosques in my lifetime, but nothing like this. Almost every person in this room, if they were to step foot inside a mosque, they’d get dirty looks. Heck, if I were in the mosque and saw them, I bet I might even give some of them a look or two. But it was something comforting about this place that didn’t make that an issue at all. I had to find out why." They're now up to Minnesota.


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