Posted on 10/23/2007 7:52:02 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Muslim Sect's Proposal for Extensive Center Unsettles Small Frederick County Town...Nestled near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains on the rural outskirts of Frederick, and many of them are praying that this hamlet of 5,500 will be able to stop a proposed development.
A Silver Spring-based Muslim sect has proposed buying the town's largest farm to build a retreat and Islamic worship center that would host up to 10,000 people annually for a national religious convention.
Under the proposal, the 224-acre farm's colonial-era house...would be converted into living space for an imam and other clergy from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. The main prayer and recreation center would be topped with a 65-foot spire...
Public outcry has been so intense that some town officials are maneuvering to adopt zoning law amendments that could block the project. The town's planning commission will vote tonight on an ordinance to prohibit building places of worship and private clubs on land zoned for agriculture. On Nov. 1, the town's board of appeals will hold a final public hearing and could vote whether to allow the Ahmadiyya community to build its retreat on the property, which is zoned for agriculture....
For their part, the Ahmadiyya community has launched an aggressive public relations campaign...
Legally, the town's hands are tied. Making land-use decisions on religious or racial grounds is unconstitutional, and the town can deny the sect's proposal only if there are legitimate concerns about traffic, infrastructure or planning.
Intisar Abbasi, said he hopes his fellow Muslims will become a part of Walkersville. "I love the community, and the people are wonderful," Abbasi said. "I'm not surprised there are people who are angry, but, you know, that's part of the process."...
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What you are proposing is a one sided suicide pact.
This is disgraceful. How is our leadership allowing this?
Exactly. “The natives always put up resistance at first, but we are used to it and will prevail. We will use their own laws and Constitution against them to take over.”
No, what I'm opposing is consistent devotion to the Constitution. We can't just ignore it for short-term political gain.
Look at the case against the Dallas Islamic center funding terrorism that fell apart yesterday. The case was made that Hamas doesn’t JUST use the money for terrorist acts.
Too bad that if they were Americans, it wouldn’t matter (see RICO). Activist courts have used it to try to shut down the entire pro-life movement by seizing their assets when any bad link can be found. Same was done to the KKK. But even when an Islamic group is clearly shown to be funding a terrorist group, it results in a hung jury.
Ugh. I gratefully accept the spelling correction.
Muslim apologist code for everything.
Dirty little secret. The Saudis sold out the rest of the world decades ago. The Wahabis wanted their skulls on a platter and seized Mecca if I recall. In exchange for “stablizing” things in Saudi Arabia, they agreed to fund Wahabism around the world to the tune of millions per mosque.
There IS no separation of church/mosque and state. The Saudis should not be permitted to establish more of their apartheid learning centers in the West until they permit FREEDOM OF RELIGION in Saudi Arabia. Permit the open missionary of other faiths INTO Saudi Arabia and the open conversion of muslims away from Islam, not just kufir in their presence with fewer rights under the law.
I respectfully disagree.
The answer to corruption is not more corruption of our own. Our response to Democrat voter fraud ought to be prosecution, not casting fraudulent votes for Republicans to balance those out.
Either the Constitution means something, or it doesn't.
One thing is fer shur, the Moose-limbs' demands will be granted more weight than the community's wishes.
Leni
If this deal goes through, the next thing we;ll witness is that the homes going up for sale in the surrounding subdivisions will be purchased by practicing muslims.
And the properties won't linger on the market...even in this DEAD real estate market.
Let’s see...5,500 American residents, and up to 10,000 Muslims moving in...there, I thought about the math. Denied.
If any such muslim compound, mosque or "learning (!)" center is proposed anywhere in the United States it must be funded entirely by U.S. citizens or residents.
Allowing Saudi Arabia, directly, or through that doofus Sandmaggot Irish "citizen", Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz, to build propaganda sources in the U.S. should be forbidden by federal law.
Yes, it should be that simple.
American muslims should be free to build whatever they want, but not terrorist training centers disguised as "learning centers", and funded by hostile foreign powers.
I would say "yes", properly so; "Freedom of Speech" has evolved in the last 60 years, for better or for worse ---BUT---
Not if funded directly or indirectly by Nazi Germany!
In case you've forgotten, we're talking about a small, peaceful, law-abiding American town that's being invaded by a virulent cult that doesn't recognize secular law.
If you are truly a Constitutionalist, then you clearly understand that the Constitution will in fact be rendered utterly meaningless within this town if this cult succeeds in its efforts. As such, in order to preserve the sanctity of the Constitution and the rule of law, you must stop them. Period. Not just try to stop them or go through the motions of stopping them, but actually stop them. You don't get the privilege of saying after the fact, "Oh, well, we tried everything reasonable and proper, but it wasn't enough," because in such a scenario the fact is that the cult will have taken over the town and the Constitutional law that you value will cease to exist there.
I guess it comes down to a fundamental moral question: When faced with a fight for your life, do you want to come out tarnished but alive, or do you want to be the most righteous body in the morgue? I guess every individual has to answer that question for himself, but as for me, I know I'll always find a way to forgive myself later as long as I live through the fight.
Islamics wanted to put in a huge school and have their area incorporated, as I recall.
In the end the Islamics made a huge donation that the town needed in order to bring in more water.
But there is now a better way... and trendy and topical, too!
From the Central Valley in California...
Unless and until they are so designated such by law, the characterization is not relevant.
Liberals would say the same about many religious groups. They would certainly say the same about pro-life groups (remember their glee in applying RICO?).
There is a legal process. Until that day, these Muslims have the same protections under the Constitution that we do. I'm shocked and disappointed that conservatives would advocate Lib tactics.
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