What Happens When a Hindu Diety is Muslim?

Umar Hakim’s Muslim Faith Inspires His Fight for Social Justice — and a Responsible Banking Ordinance – Los Angeles News – The Informer. The offices of L.A. Voice, where Umar Hakim is in residency, are on the third floor of the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles. So when it comes time for Hakim to offer his daily prayers, he finds a quiet room, faces Mecca and turns his thoughts to God.

Reason #997 I love this city. This sort of space sharing is more common than I think people realize. A Struggling Bronx Synagogue Finds Free Housing—in a Mosque – Tablet Magazine. Near the corner of Westchester Avenue and Pugsley Street in Parkchester, just off the elevated tracks of the No. 6 train, Yaakov Wayne Baumann stood outside a graffiti-covered storefront on a chilly Saturday morning. Suited up in a black overcoat with a matching wide-brimmed black fedora, the thickly bearded 42-year-old chatted with elderly congregants as they entered the building for Shabbat service.  The only unusual detail: This synagogue is…