Christians Visiting Mosques In Wyoming

IN GILLETTE, WYOMING, a conservative leaning town, lives the Khan family, which came from Pakistan in the nineteen fifties. Through consequent generations the family has assimilated to American culture, and today there are about thirty family members, American as apple pie. They are, however, Islamic, and have erected a small mosque. The law abiding, hard working, achieving family is starting to feel the effect of an American society increasingly fearful, angry, and anti-Islamic. Some local conservative idiot has a website, called "Keep Islam Out Of Gillette", or something stupid. Its enough to make you fearful that not only might the U.S. decide to prohibit further islamic immigration, but to deport the several millions of Moslems already here! Surely we wouldn't try to do that..or would we? To do so would be the opposite of helpful, which is regrettably not at all unusual in American foreign and domestic policy. What is needed, of course, are closer ties and more communication between the United States of America and the Islamic faith, not less. Trying to improve the situation in Gillette, the Khan family has invited any and all members of the community to visit the mosque and sit in on worship services, and several local cowboys have taken them up on the offer, much to their cowboy credit. One fellow indicated that he saw very little difference, and much similarity, between his own Christian church and the mosque, as if they were somehow seeking the same God, and espousing the same peace and prosperity for all. Imagine such a thing, in li'l ole Gillette, Wyoming. Maybe there's hope for us, after all.