I have a dumb question: do communities often, legally, have grounds to deny a religious building to be built?
What is/were the legal grounds for denying the mosque be built?
Dumb questions but I have not been following this and want to hear clear legal reasons for denying this mosque that could not be used by the government against a more traditional church some day.
I am not defending the mosque but want to prevent the hell of good intentions.
> I have a dumb question: do communities often, legally,
> have grounds to deny a religious building to be built?
Yes and no.
I think in this case the community had a compelling reason to deny permission that fits within the bounds of the law.
In fact, because public funds are being used to promote and build this mosque, and because its chief “imam” is under the employ of the State Department as a Middle East “envoy”, it can actually be framed as a violation of the letter and spirit of the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
Section 3-b of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 provides an avenue for denial of a religious exercise if the government can demonstrate a compelling interest AND provide an alternative avenue of expression for the religious exercise in question.
Surely, they could be required to build their mosque somewhere else without violation of their fundamental rights, the same rights which they would deny to everybody else.
But the MoHamHeads are not interested in religious freedom, anyway. Their intention with the building of this mosque is provocation. They want to invite violence against them in order to provide a basis for the passage of laws that will give them special protections that other faiths do not have.
Islam is not a faith. It is a violent, seditious, intolerant, hateful, cruel, malignant political ideology, complete with judicial, financial, and legislative aspects, with the “religious” aspect in front of the others in order to provide justification for the extremes of the ideology.
Their founder, Mohammed, whom they regard as the “perfect man”, was a pirate, a pedophile, a polygamist, a slave trader, a murderer, a torturer, a Jew-hater, a trucebreaker, a liar, a thief, and all around vicious, bloody, savage, genocidal lunatic.
The teaching of their “faith” that all true Moslems are compelled to imitate this bloody lunatic savage explains a lot of their behavior.
Winston Churchill said that thee is “no greater retrograde force on earth” than Islam.
Benjamin Disraeli said, “The borders of Islam are bloody.”
It would be wise for us to give attention to the wise words of these leaders.