Masjid At-Taqwa was a small unknown community that started with 25 African American Muslims back in 1981. Our community was so small that we used to have Jummah in the living room of one of our founding brothers, Br. Salim AbdusSabour on Fridays. Now African American muslims make up about…
Muslims with walkie-talkies and solemn stares, some of them armed off-duty correction and police officers, have started to patrol part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in another initiative to rid the community of crime and drugs, particularly crack. The patrols of men from the At-Taqwa mosque, at Bedford Avenue…