Israeli police deployed thousands of additional officers at entrances to the Old City leading to the compound containing the Al Aqsa mosque sacred to Muslims and the Western Wall Judaism's holiest site.

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"It is my hope that the mosque will help to bring our city even closer together, and help repudiate the false and repugnant idea that the attacks of 9/11 were in any ways consistent with Islam."

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Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud ran the City Heights mosque in San Diego, which many in the Somali community attended.

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At a city centre mosque we were welcomed inside as followers sat around a white cloth, gently swaying to the prayers.

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Every day he practices at home, from which he can see the city's mosque, its Catholic church and its Orthodox church.

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