Last week Karen Lugo published a report in American Greatness about the controversy over proposed mosques in various locations across the USA, and the Justice Department’s habitual favoritism shown to Muslims in recent zoning decisions concerning mosques.
Below are excerpts from the article:
The Department of Justice is Privileging Mosques
by Karen Lugo
The Department of Justice has become an advocate for the establishment of mosques in America. It is as if there were some congressional affirmative action mandate. The DOJ’s own statistics reveal a sharp escalation in intervention efforts on behalf of Islamic complainants, mostly involving mosque disputes with local zoning authorities. Alarmingly, these interventions reveal a pattern of generous settlements that benefit mosques while bypassing municipal laws and disregarding legitimate neighborhood concerns.
During the Obama Presidency, DOJ lawyers ran roughshod over local officials, as long as the complaining party was a mosque. Trump’s Justice Department must reverse these tendencies.
The atmosphere of DOJ intimidation cannot be overstated. Negotiated settlements between the DOJ, local zoning authorities, and mosque officials take place against a backdrop of DOJ threatening long, prohibitively costly litigation. The drive for ever more concessions, and more cash, confronts communities whose small governments cannot compete with DOJ’s $28 billion budget and legions of lawyers. Importantly, DOJ treats these settlements as if they were precedents even though, by sidestepping the courts, the settlements bypass judicial precedents that could protect legitimate community interests.
In two recent cases, mosque applicants in Sterling Heights (Michigan) and Basking Ridge (New Jersey), received cash settlements because they were denied permits according to local zoning procedures. These settlements failed to protect vital neighborhood interests in traffic safety, parking limits, and livability concerns.
Just one example of neighborhood hardships that result from deferential permit agreements, the Dar al Farooq mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota is currently holding services for the entire month of Ramadan with overflow parking and lighted lots until 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. — in a residential neighborhood.
The Sterling Heights settlement is illustrative of abusive DOJ meddling.
The atmosphere of DOJ intimidation cannot be overstated. Negotiated settlements between the DOJ, local zoning authorities, and mosque officials take place against a backdrop of DOJ threatening long, prohibitively costly litigation.
The mosque had applied to build a 28,000 square foot facility on 4.35 acres of land. The building’s dome was to be 58 feet high and the minarets 66 feet high. The surrounding neighborhood has been settled by many Chaldean Christians who fled Iraq and Islamist oppression. An imposing Islamic structure was not met with enthusiasm to put it mildly. But federal law focuses on whether the decision-makers are biased. It demands that local government officials give all sides equal consideration. It does not require that neighborhood residents greet this kind of application with enthusiasm.
The proposed mosque for Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Read the rest at American Greatness.
This was part of Obama’s Islamification of America. A call from the DOJ, especially during Holder’s time, would cause local councils to give in to the Muslims’s dictates.
‘Just one example of neighborhood hardships that result from deferential permit agreements, the Dar al Farooq mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota is currently holding services for the entire month of Ramadan with overflow parking and lighted lots until 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. — in a residential neighborhood. ‘
Neighbors here have been battling for years about this shocking mosque, full of radicals. They can’t easily access their own homes – but nothing has been done! It’s an absolute disgrace!
Until Islam is rightly held in utter contempt, as Nazism is, our suffering will only increase.
The people need to stop acting like sheeple if they want anything to change.
There are lots of creative ways to interfere with situations like this – endless construction on access roads, inconvenient, random power outages, etc.
Can we finally put to,bed, once and for all, that obama is a Christian.
The son of a moslem is always a moslem, and obama has done NOTHING to dispel that, e.g. his favourite visitors in the White House always seemed to be members of the moslem brotherhood–curious behaviour for a Christian.
Ask yourself this, “If Obama actually were a Muslim, what would he have done differently?
Good one, I like that!
America’s federal system seems perfectly suited to further the goals of Agenda 21. Laws (RLUIPA) can be created and interpreted any which way as the system pleases. The ruling elite don’t give two peanuts for the people of Sterling Heights or the rest of ordinary humanity. The planet has already gone globalist.
I hope the US Attorney General Sessions can find the time left over from harassing medical marijuana users to reverse the power abuses left over from the Obama Presidency.
But, the trend is clear: easy to centralize power, hard to let it go. Trump is working on deregulating business, which is a very good move. But, is he also deregulating the many state and community functions now under federal scrutiny, which were clearly intended by the US Constitution to be left completely to the discretion of the states.
This is another example why it was a huge failure on Trump’s part to not execute a blanket FedGov purge off all Obama-era appointees and hires.
It is beyond clear that these dead-enders will remain loyal to their favorite sultan until the last, and impede Trump from getting anything accomplished in DC.
What a ‘coincidence’ – the same thing has been happening in Europe for years.
Again, this is what Western elites have chosen for the people under them.
They think we plebes have it too good, and that we are too difficult to manage.
They believe that they will be better off once the West falls under the sway of Islam.