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Dakar mosque lit up for Christmas in Senegal
Posted: 12.24.2012 at 9:11 AM
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Christmas lights reading "Welcome to Dakar," light up a highway alongside a mosque in Dakar, Senegal.  / AP photo
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It looks a lot like Christmas in Senegal, where 95 percent of the 12.8 million residents are Muslim. Even the Grande Mosquee, a mosque that dominates the city's skyline, is aglow in holiday lights.

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