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Young girls dress themselves appropriately with garments borrowed from the mosque for prayer upon entering the Innercity Mosque for Friday prayers in the old city of Baku, Azerbaijan on July 2, 2010.  Viewed as "the wrong message" by the ruling regime of Ilham Aliyev, Islam has been shunned in favor of opulence and materialism for the elite and the imam of the Innercity Mosque replaced after dalliances with the opposition in 2005, the time of the last major civil disturbances, and Iranian-style clericalism.