{"id":844,"date":"2013-01-01T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=844"},"modified":"2013-01-01T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:02:39","slug":"rashad-khalifa-a-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2013\/01\/01\/rashad-khalifa-a-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashad Khalifa: A Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was called the Masjid of Tucson [Arizona], a mosque where Muslims could worship and study the Koran in the Arizona desert under the idiosyncratic tutelage of Rashad Khalifa, its founder. 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