January 9, 2011
Source: The Washington Post
Wire Service: AP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010800335.html
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and the group that calls itself Invitation to Paradise was mounting a defiant response to weeks of public protests against plans to construct a religious school to teach its austere, militant interpretation of Islam.