(RNS) — When the Muslim Bosnian community around Des Moines, Iowa, opened the doors of its new mosque Friday (Sept. 26), the moment testified to the resilience of a small group of former refugees who had fled ethnic cleansing in the 1990s.
But residents of the Midwestern city and Bosnian Americans across the region took the building’s inauguration as a rare chance to celebrate faith and unity, as more than 15,000 people descended on Granger, Iowa, over three days.
Aska and Enis Omeralovic drove nearly six hours from Chicago with their young boys to celebrate the community’s accomplishment…