While you're at it, declare Unicorns the national animal and the speed of light to be 0.5c, you delusional freaks.
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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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Posted on 10/18/2010 7:17:17 PM PDT by MamaDearest
The Department of Justice today filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit in Murfreesboro, Tenn., where opponents of a new mosque are trying to stop its construction. In the brief, the DOJ declares that Islam is a religion and is entitled to freedom of expression.
In a press release, the U.S. attorney for the middle district of Tennessee, Jerry E. Martin, acknowledged that the lawsuit is a "local matter," but that the DOJ wants to "vigorously support" the decision of local authorities to grant the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro building permits.
The center, which has been operating in Murfreesboro for decades, has outgrown its current facility and is building a larger community center and mosque just outside the city. In addition to the legal opposition, the mosque has faced vandalism and arson, and the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division recently visited area Muslims as a gesture of support.
Opponents of the mosque, who have sued the planning commission and other county officials, have argued that it shouldn't have been granted a religious use permit because, according to them, Islam isn't really a religion.
"To suggest that Islam is not a religion is quite simply ridiculous. Each branch of the federal government has independently recognized Islam as one of the major religions of the world," Martin said in the press release.
The brief painstakingly cites proof, from the Oxford English Dictionary, Supreme Court rulings, presidential proclamations by Clinton and George W. Bush and the writings of Thomas Jefferson, that Islam has long been recognized as a major world religion.
It also notes the definition of religion set forth by other federal courts, including that a belief system must address "fundamental and ultimate questions having to do with deep and imponderable matters" in order to be considered a religion.
In the brief, the DOJ argues that the lawsuit implicates two federal civil rights statutes, the Religious Land Use Act and the Church Arson Prevention Act, which fall under the DOJ's purview. The county, the brief argues, would be in danger of violating the land use act were it to deny building permits for the mosque.
Read the DOJ's brief here:
Amicus Brief Support in favor of mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennesssee
This regime is only interested in two groups of people. Illegal aliens and muzzies.
Andrew Jackson is rolling over in his grave.
I see in many local communities, efforts to stop the building of churches, particularly on valuable city tax lots. The reason is thus: they do not pay property taxes.
Why shouldn’t a mosque be treated the same as a church or synagogue?
Every graduating senior or school team that wants to pray/invoke Christ before a game should have this brief in thier pocket...
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> the lawsuit is a “local matter,” but that the DOJ wants
> to “vigorously support” the decision of local
> authorities to grant the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
> building permits.
The DOJ should “vigorously support” the prosecution of the LAW!
Like prosecuting the miscreants in the states that didn’t bother sending absentee ballots to overseas military.
Like prosecuting the barbaric “new black panther party” that discourages white people from voting at polling places.
Like prosecuting the rampant DemonRAT vote fraud that’s sure to take place on Nov. 2.
Like prosecuting mohammedans for fomenting sedition and conspiracy to enslave us all under the rubric of Sharia.
NOT whether a locality allows the rabid genocidal savages to build their seditious training center.
Islam uses the religion angle and our laws to advance their agenda. Its more of a political system. Investigating and firing the DOJ hopefully will be a top priority after the elections.
So they want a civil war?
> Islam is a religion and is entitled to freedom of
> expression.
Islam is not a religion.
It is more closely related to Nazism than any relgion. The religion aspect is a cloak for their mischief.
Their religious “expression” involves flying airliners filled with innocent people into skyscrapers filled with innocent people. It involves killing, killing, and more killing.
Islam is the deadliest, cruelest, most barbaric and backward ideology on the face of the earth today, by many orders of magnitude.
It is a religion as it (koran)is religiously regarded as the moslem warfighter manual, mk 1.
Hooray for the group that is standing up to this blatant fornication. The mask has long ago slipped from the devils head.
Get em out of town, if not out of the country by any legal means necessary.
You forgot blacks (e.g. New Black Panther Party).
Because of this unique structure Islam should not be dealt with as ONLY A RELIGION, but also as a competing political structure.
The obligation of the US government to repel invasions clearly indicates what must be done.
Misogynistic Necromongers.
This is disgusting and vile and must be made an example of. The DOJ is working for America’s enemies. The bastards!
It is amazing how many Americans are ignorant of Islam and its history in relation to Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
It isn’t a religion and it isn’t peaceful.
While you're at it, declare Unicorns the national animal and the speed of light to be 0.5c, you delusional freaks.
…democracy is…forbidden for Muslims…democracy (is) incompatible with Islam because the Koran insisted Allah was the sole lawmaker… humans have no right to make laws.
(http://www.news.com.au/national/islamist-leader-burhan-hanif-tells-aussie-muslims-told-to-shun-democracy/story-e6frfkvr-1225887784755#ixzz0slho45BW)
“In the brief, the DOJ argues that the lawsuit implicates two federal civil rights statutes, the Religious Land Use Act and the Church Arson Prevention Act, which fall under the DOJ’s purview.”
Now I believe the arson was self-inflicted for sure!
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