Drive around and locked doors

I was driving around Detroit last week, showing a visiting scholar some of the highs and lows (on a side note, he is interested in re-locating here from California to help catalyze some grassroots progress in our City). He was particularly interested in visiting with the community of the slain Imam Luqman to see how they are doing. I had never been to that particular mosque, Masjid al-Haqq, or that part of town, so it was a very new experience for me. The community was forced out of its previous building over some administrative issues, and had moved into a house in the neighborhood. The entire experience was interesting, but there is one observation I wanted to share...Imam Luqman's son noted that Masjid al-Haqq was never locked, that it was open 24 hours all year round. This, in ostensibly the most dangerous city in America (though this neighborhood actually felt quite safe). In comparison, mosques in the "safer" suburbs are often locked and certainly close for the night. This dynamic says quite a bit about how differently the suburbs and City communities think about issues like safety and houses of worship.