A New Jersey imam has died after he was shot outside a Newark mosque on Wednesday morning. The shooting occurred near Masjid Muhammad-Newark at the corner of Camden Street and South Orange Avenue around 6:15 a.m. Where a gunman confronted the spiritual leader after morning prayers. The victim was rushed to University Hospital in critical condition, police said. He was later identified as Imam Hassan Sharif. At the hospital, Imam Wahy-ud Deen Shareef, convener of the Council of Imams in New Jersey, told northjersey.com that Sharif was shot twice in a parking lot and was undergoing surgery. Howe…