“It is like sitting in front of a loom and weaving a carpet. If you turn it into a mosque, you lose the pattern. It’s not the whole story,” she said.

Shami is ahead of some of his peers. At one major North Texas mosque, a person at the front desk said they didn’t have a plan yet. They were waiting to see what churches do. Other mosques aren ...

Jackson, Mississippi—An African-American imam leads Friday prayer in Arabic at a mosque in Jackson. Not so many years ago, most of the Muslim worshippers here were blacks who "reverted" to Islam ...