(RNS) Boston mosque says bombing suspect had outbursts but wasn't violent

After two troubling outbursts at a local mosque, leaders there told Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev he would no longer be welcome if he continued disrupting services.

Leaders at the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque in Cambridge say Tsarnaev, 26, who died early Friday (April 19) after a shootout with police, “disagreed with the moderate American-Islamic theology” of the mosque, but they never had “any hint” the brothers might be violent.

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