Muslims in cities across the United States walked past heavily armed police officers to attend services Friday, hours after a gunman killed at least 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand. They pored over news reports with a mixture of grief and disgust, feeling familiar fears of being targeted for their religious beliefs. The news trickled out overnight in dread-inducing bulletins as the death toll climbed by the hour. The United States is home to about 3.5 million Muslims, or 1 percent of the nation’s population. Some said they had stayed up all night, unable to tear themselves away from the coverage, as difficult as it was to take in.

Source: New York Times March 15, 2019 15:21 UTC