Posted on 11/23/2016 10:24:27 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it is suing Bernards Township, N.J., because it denied zoning approval for the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to build a mosque on land it owns.
The township in December unanimously voted down the Islamic Society's application to build a mosque, which the Justice Department says violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
In the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the department said the denial was discriminatory based on the Islamic Society's members' religion. The denial imposed a substantial burden on the Islamic Society's religious exercise, according to the complaint, it said.
The complaint also alleged that the township violated the law "by amending its zoning ordinance in a manner that imposes unreasonable limitations on all religious assemblies."
According to Justice Department officials, the land where the Islamic Society wanted to build the mosque is located in a zone that permitted construction of places of worship as a matter of right at the time of the zoning request.
"As alleged in the complaint, Bernards Township has treated the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge differently than other houses of worship," said U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman in a statement. "RLUIPA ensures that municipalities must treat religious land use applications like any other land use application. But here, township officials kept moving the goalposts by using ever-changing local requirements to effectively deny this religious community the same access as other faiths."
Bernards Township is a township of roughly 25,000 people located in less than 40 miles southwest of New York City.
Just wait a couple more months and this lawsuit will dropped.
Why doesn’t the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge bring suit themselves, and pay for it themselves?
RIP community standards.
Yep. Ready for this nation destructing BS to fade away.
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
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so this was to be a mental hospital ???
Of course they are.
So let's build a pretty Institution (sanitarium) and throw the Islamic savages inside and lock it up.
I live in the next town, and I’ve been following this story for a while. There are a number of similar cases around New Jersey. I’m curious to know why they needed a zoning variance for this site.
Bernards township
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OK, so they are the good guys. Hopefully Sessions stops this day 1
Did they sue themselves for allowing the Boston terrorists
to enter the USA without a passport to murder and kill
Americans at the Marathon?
I think not.
Or for the pizza rape parties of the DNC and politicians
under their control - protected by Lynch and Comey?
No. They did not.
Instead, thousands of raped children were
sold so Comey and Lynch and Clinton would be paid.
The did this so they can ‘set precedence’ for the next court case.
They pick and easy place, and argue a case agains a too weak defendant.
Wait until it’s almost finished, then blow it up by mysterious forces.
Ride it out for about another month.
Who wants a terrorist training camp and ammo dump?
“Did they sue themselves for allowing the Boston terrorists
to enter the USA without a passport to murder and kill
Americans at the Marathon?”
Huh ?
.
This is not an easy place to set a precedent. That town can afford to wage a long legal battle if they want to. If the description of the fact pattern in this case is accurate, then the township is going to lose the case.
Even if the mosque IS built, another bunch of Muslims will just come along and burn it down. Muslims are in greater danger from other Muslims than they ever shall be from the local secular governments.
Besides, most of the Muslims in New Jersey will end up self-deporting, so the mosques already in existence will be more than adequate in number to serve all the “religious” needs of the community.
P.S. — There is no need to set a legal precedent here. The law is already on their side.
Less than 2 months. All the town has to do is hold on until the fat turd Lynch is fired in January.
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