The president of a Rochester Islamic Center said that he would wait for local leaders to allow places of worship to resume despite Trump earlier saying he would order them to reopen.
Islamic Center of Rochester president Tabassam Javed had earlier told Spectrum News that the timing was not right to reopen."Places of worship are not ready," he said."Our medical experts have been telling us something, and we've been adhering to that and really getting the benefit of that."
"And, also looking at the governors and also looking at the county directors, at the local levels. So, those became my criteria, in terms of the federal response is really not significant, because the federal government does not have any authority on the governors in terms of any imposition of any requirements for them, to ease on the conditions. I looked at it that way as well."
The mosque's president also said that he didn't think the president could easily override governors' decisions, but the Islamic Center's board of directors was already beginning plans to open."I'm not seeing that as something where-like an executive order kind of thing-I don't visualize that," he said.
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