Iraqis Saying It's Now "Too Dangerous" To Go To The Mosque...

The New York Times Edward Wong August 19, 2006 at 12:28 PM

Haider Ali communes with God through his CD player. That is how he listens to the lectures of Shiite imams these days, for he rarely sets foot in a mosque anymore.

Even on Fridays, the Muslim Sabbath, he prefers to pray at home, kneeling on a rug in a room adorned with posters of green-robed Shiite martyrs slain centuries ago.

"We'd go a lot to mosque before, but it's too dangerous now," Mr. Ali, 42, said as he watched his 9-year-old son stack boxes in his downtown convenience store. "Now, you feel a little empty inside."

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