Only the mosque and a handful of other buildings remained- amid a sea of broken concrete, splintered wood and twisted metal.

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Randy Hamud, an attorney for Al-Mohdar, has said the students lived in San Diego for three years and knew two of the hijackers -- Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar -- only as casual acquaintances through a local mosque.

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Only 5% of French Muslims attend mosque once a week.

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There was a great tendency that the Egyptians prayed only in the mosque for Egyptians.

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For rukus on a grand scale you need head only for Ankara's Kocatepe Mosque (1987).

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Prime Minister David Cameron said last week that he believed same-sex marriages should be allowed in churches - but only if there was a "100%" guarantee that no church, synagogue or mosque would be forced to hold one against their wishes.

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