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IN EARLY 2010 opponents of a proposed mosque inMurfreesboro, Tennessee, spray-painted NOTWELCOME on a sign announcing the new building.Simple-minded vandalism, perhaps; but theirscrawl captured the feelings of an increasingly noisysegment of Americas population. In the monthsthat followed, nasty disputes erupted over plannedmosques in Wisconsin, California and New York.Some suggested that Islam did not deserveprotection under the first amendment, whichguarantees freedom of religion as well as speech. 早在2010，在墨菲斯堡，田纳西州被提议的清真寺的反对者们就用喷漆在新建筑上表示了不欢迎。或许这简直就是头脑简单肆意的破坏，但是从他们的涂鸦中你能感到美国人民们浮躁的片段。在接下来的几个月，在威斯康星、加州和纽约，也纷纷爆发了基于计划建造清真寺的下流的纷争。 Yet these mosque projects and others continue. Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001Islam in America has flourished. The number of mosques has nearly doubled over the pastdecade, rising from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2011, according to a new report from a multi-faith coalition. 然而这些清真寺计划和其他一系列工程仍在继续。从2001年九月开始美国伊斯兰教的恐怖主义攻击开始频繁起来。根据一篇多宗教联合组织的新报道，从2000年的1209座到2011的2106座，清真寺的数量几乎是十年前的两倍。 | 
