Islam in Wales Islam in Wales Islam is the largest non-Christian faith in Wales, with about 46,000 adherents recorded in the country in the 2011 Census. The earliest recorded connections between Wales and the Muslim world dates back to the early 12th Century. There has been a Somali and Yemeni Islamic community in Cardiff since the mid-19th century, founded by seafarers to Cardiff Docks. The first purpose-built mosque was erected in Cardiff in 1947. Today, Wales has about 40 mosques, most of which are in Cardiff, with others in Aberystwyth, Bangor, Barry, Haverfordwest, Lampeter, Neath, Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea and Wrexham. New Muslim
Just Before the War with the Eskimos Just Before the War with the Eskimos "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the June 5, 1948 issue of "The New Yorker". It was anthologized in Salinger's 1953 collection "Nine Stories", and reprinted for Bantam in "Manhattan: Stories from the Heart of a Great City" in 1954. It is a tale of adolescent alienation and redemption in a post-World War II setting. It focuses primarily on fifteen-year-old Ginnie Mannox's meeting with her classmate Selena Graff's older brother, Franklin. Poet and "New Yorker" editor Dorothy Parker described the story