A study 2005 indicated that while support for suicide bombings is not correlated with personal devotion to Islam among Palestinian Muslims , it is correlated with mosque attendance because " participating in communal religious rituals of any kind likely encourages support for self-sacrificing behaviors that are done for the collective good . " Following the September 11 attacks , several American mosques were targeted in attacks ranging from simple vandalism to arson . Furthermore , the Jewish Defense League was suspected of plotting to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City , California . Similar attacks occurred throughout the United Kingdom following the 7 July 2005 London bombings . Outside the Western world , in June 2001 , the Hassan Bek Mosque was the target of vandalism and attacks by hundreds of Israelis after a suicide bomber killed 19 people in a night club in Tel Aviv . Although mosquegoing is highly encouraged for men , it is permitted to stay at home when one feels at risk from Islamophobic persecution
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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