mosqueing

English

Etymology

mosque +‎ -ing

Noun

mosqueing (uncountable)

1. The practice of visiting or attending a mosque.
   • 1934, Clara Kathleen Rogers, Henry Munroe Rogers, Journal-letters from the Orient, page 180:

     Both in the morning and the afternoon we broke the monotony of mosqueing by going into the shops of some of the jewellers and embroidery merchants, who have been tormenting the lives out of us since we have been here […]

   • 2014, Diana Cooper, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952:

     P.L. gave me an inferior dressing gown and Mary bought one that suits her fairness, otherwise no purchases. Next morning we did some mosqueing and souking […]

2. (derogatory) The introduction of Islam to a place.
   • 2011, Erick Stakelbeck, The Terrorist Next Door:

     No Islamist entity has seized upon the message sent by The Bow more than the Muslim Brotherhood—the first modern Islamic terrorist group and the Saudis' steadfast ally in the mosqueing of America.