The Islamic Center of Mason has a charter school that requires students to memorize the Koran, and its organizers have plans for a large expansion for a mosque.

A WCPO-TV report included interviews from a student and a mother who co-founded the Learning Center in Ohio as well as an imam from the mosque next door to the school.

'The hardest part is actually retaining what you memorized.'

"I did not want to do it at all," said Aadam Zindani.

"Memorizing it is the easy part," he added. "The hardest part is actually retaining what you memorized."

Zindani said that memorizing the 600 pages took him about three years.

"It takes years. For some people, it takes decades," said imam Fawzan Hansbhai.

Aadam's mother, Anila Zindani, told WCPO that she helped found the school in Mason because

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