Editing Mosque (section)

=== Political controversy ===
[[File:Wikipedia-mosquee-kruszyniany.jpg|thumb|Historic wooden [[Kruszyniany Mosque]], used by the [[Lipka Tatars|Polish Tatar]] community, and targeted by an Islamophobic attack in 2014]]
In the western world, and in the United States in particular, anti-Muslim sentiment and targeted domestic policy has created challenges for mosques and those looking to build them. There has been government and police surveillance of mosques in the US<ref>{{Cite news |title=Factsheet: The NYPD Muslim Surveillance Program |url=https://www.aclu.org/other/factsheet-nypd-muslim-surveillance-program |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507194636/https://www.aclu.org/other/factsheet-nypd-muslim-surveillance-program |archive-date=2019-05-07 |access-date=2018-06-28 |work=American Civil Liberties Union |language=en}}</ref> and local attempts to ban mosques and block constructions,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goodstein |first=Laurie |date=7 August 2010 |title=Battles Around Nation Over Proposed Mosques |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08mosque.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811190538/http://www.nytimes.com//2010//08//08//us//08mosque.html |archive-date=2010-08-11 |access-date=2018-06-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref> despite data showing that in fact, most Americans oppose banning the building of mosques (79%) and the surveillance of U.S. mosques (63%) as shown in a 2018 study done by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-04-30 |title=American Muslim Poll 2018: Full Report {{!}} ISPU |url=https://www.ispu.org/american-muslim-poll-2018-full-report/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405095344/https://www.ispu.org/american-muslim-poll-2018-full-report/ |archive-date=2019-04-05 |access-date=2018-06-28 |work=Institute for Social Policy and Understanding |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Clarify|reason=The sentence does not make sense|date=April 2022}}

Since 2017, [[Government of China|Chinese authorities]] have destroyed or damaged two-thirds of the [[List of mosques in China|mosques]] in China's [[Xinjiang]] province.<ref>{{cite news |date=25 September 2020 |title=Thousands of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged, report finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/thousands-of-xinjiang-mosques-destroyed-damaged-china-report-finds |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926053710/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/thousands-of-xinjiang-mosques-destroyed-damaged-china-report-finds |archive-date=26 September 2020 |access-date=26 September 2020 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> [[Ningxia]] officials were notified on 3 August 2018 that the [[Proposed demolition of Weizhou Grand Mosque|Weizhou Grand Mosque]] would be forcibly demolished because it had not received the proper permits before construction.<ref name="A1">{{Cite news |date=10 August 2018 |title=China mosque demolition sparks standoff in Ningxia |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45140551 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708173858/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45140551 |archive-date=8 July 2019 |access-date=8 April 2019 |publisher=bbc.com |agency=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="A2">{{Cite news |last1=Osborne |first1=Samuel |date=10 August 2018 |title=Thousands of Muslims protest China's plans to demolish mosque in rare demonstration against government |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-mosque-demolition-muslim-protests-government-weizhou-grand-mosque-ningxia-hui-a8485871.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408174247/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-mosque-demolition-muslim-protests-government-weizhou-grand-mosque-ningxia-hui-a8485871.html |archive-date=8 April 2019 |access-date=8 April 2019 |newspaper=The Independent |agency=Independent}}</ref><ref name="A3">{{Cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Rachel |date=7 April 2019 |title=Bulldozing mosques: the latest tactic in China's war against Uighur culture |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/07/bulldozing-mosques-china-war-uighur-culture-xinjiang |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214132032/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/07/bulldozing-mosques-china-war-uighur-culture-xinjiang |archive-date=14 December 2019 |access-date=8 April 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Officials in the town said that the mosque had not been given proper building permits, because it is built in a [[Middle Eastern]] style and includes numerous [[domes]] and [[minarets]].<ref name="A1" /><ref name="A2" />  The residents of Weizhou alarmed each other through [[social media]] and finally stopped the mosque destruction by public demonstrations.<ref name="A2" />