Muslim doctor ambushed, shot while walking to mosque in Texas

Madrasah Islamiah Masjid Noor mosque in Houston
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A Muslim man walking to the entrance of a Houston, Texas, mosque for 5:30 a.m. prayer services was ambushed and shot by three as-yet-unknown people Sunday morning. The victim, a doctor, has been taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.

"It is very scary right now given the current political climate," said Mohammed Imaduddin, a spokesman of the Madrasah Islamiah Masjid Noor mosque, where the shooting occurred. "This is a community place, we have kids that come here."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.