Posted on 05/30/2017 4:12:57 PM PDT by Coronal
A New Jersey township that stopped an Islamic society from building a mosque will pay the group $3.25 million, ending a multi-year battle that spanned 39 public hearings and included allegations of anti-Muslim animus.
Terms of the agreement were made public Tuesday, about a week after Bernards Township voted to settle lawsuits brought last March by the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge and in November by the Justice Department.
According to the settlements, Bernards Township will pay $1.5 million in damages to the Islamic society and $1.75 million in attorneys' fees and litigation expenses. The law firm representing the society said it will donate its payment to charity.
The society will also be permitted to construct its mosque on the 4.088-acre property it bought in 2011, court papers said.
"We are very pleased by this resolution and hope to receive prompt approval to build our mosque," society president and plaintiff Mohammad Ali Chaudry said in a statement. "We look forward to welcoming people of all faiths and backgrounds to our mosque."
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That’ll improve the place. /s
Great. There’s a huge one outside Princeton right next to a really beautiful upscale housing development.
We are going to reap the whirlwind on this sooner or later.
Islam will essentially destroy the U.S. as we know it.
No, the taxpayers have to pay.
No problem, they can just raise taxes.
The USA needs bankruptcy, and soon.
fake, printed government money is used to gloss over every societal and cultural problem and shut-up anyone with their hand out.
Pay it in pennies covered in pig juice
Actually, they can’t. They’ll declare bankruptcy and some Gulf State will come in, buy the debt for 15 cents on the dollar and start running the place.
Maybe a better option than what they have with current leadership ....
....”We look forward to welcoming people of all faiths and backgrounds to our mosque...
I can’t begin to imagine why any Christian or Jew would ever enter that Satan centered building.
I don't want to call them liars, but it's a law firm,so I think they are liars.
Of course the “charities” will funnel the money directly to terrorist organizations for tickets to the USA, weapons, explosives and lump sum gratuities to the breeders of deceased jihadis.
“it will donate its payment to charity.”
I can bet which charities.
Basking Ridge can afford it. It’s a very upscale community.
Obama’s DOJ beat up the town.
thats a lot of property tax money
I grew up there. Where exactly is this mosque, if I may ask?
How the Cancer spreads.
America deserves what we get. Lay down and play dead.
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