Some mosque backstory | Michael Tomasky

Now we begin to get some background reporting (finally) on the lower Manhattan mosque. The New York Observer yesterday profiled developer Sharif El-Gamal, and reporter Dana Rubinstein produced these paragraphs:

He began visiting mosques downtown near where he lived and worked, and came away with the realization that there were more mosque-goers than there were mosques to accommodate them. Some mosques had to hold four services a night, and still there were people praying on the streets.

He...