JudicialWatch: In its latest effort to protect Muslim rights in the United States the Obama Justice Department is suing an Illinois town for denying a rezoning application to convert an office building into an Islamic temple.
Failing to approve plans for the Islamic worship center violates a 2000 law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit filed this week in federal court. The accused are lawmakers in Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb with a population of about 60,000. In 2013 the Des Plaines City Council voted 5-3 to reject a rezoning request made by the American Islamic Center (AIC) to make a vacant office building in a manufacturing zone to an institutional zone that would allow a worship center.
The plan called for 3,661 square feet of worship space that would be used for prayer services on Fridays and Sundays as well as nightly prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan when Muslims fast and commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad. The new temple would also be used for youth group events and other gatherings, according the rezoning application. In nixing the plan, Des Plaines aldermen expressed concern about the loss of tax revenue since religious institutions are nonprofits that don’t pay taxes. They also cited traffic and safety issues for voting against the project. more here
This is a good example of federal government over reach in State and local affairs. If the property is not presently zoned for religious institutions they should be able to tell them to pound sand and build it in a properly zoned area. They shouldn’t be forced to rezone it for anyone.
Those that have the Word of God in then will not be afraid, nor stumble.
Obama you POS stay out of local affairs!!!!
Looks like Ben Carson was about seven years too late in keeping a Muslim out of the White House…
Of course they did, everybody knows denying Muslims a satisfactory zoning is slandering the name of the ‘prophet’.
Just don’t try and build a wind farm in Vermont.
http://kirbymtn.blogspot.com/2006/07/east-haven-wind-farm-denied-permit.html
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Like Obama, the DOJ sucks cock!
Build it in RagHeadistan … or Europe …
“The future must not belong to those that slander the prophet of Islam”???
how ’bout I just wipe my ass with his image then?….ok?
…fuggin’ muzztard