LICENSE No. IA-2021-376383-1

Date issued: Aug. 16 2021

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TURBOFAC Commentary (800 words)

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1) BACKGROUND

The tiles at issue, and circumstances surrounding the license, were described by Council on American-Islamic Relations as follows, with a photo of some of the tiles at issue:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Department of the Treasury to release almost 750 pounds of decorative tiles with verses from the Quran destined for a Virginia mosque that officials are now threatening to destroy.

Those tiles are to be used to decorate the “mihrab,” a niche indicating the direction of prayer, of the Manassas Mosque in Manassas, Va. They were a gift from a mosque in Iran to the Virginia mosque and include verses from the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, such as: “Indeed, We see you [O Prophet Muhammad] turning...