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Work on a mega-mosque already well along in the construction process
in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has been shut down – the existing building’s
future uncertain – by a court’s ruling the county avoided the legal
process required for granting building permission for the project.
The ruling said the county’s actions effectively violated the state’s
Open Meetings law during the time when the mega-structure was being
approved.
“The court finds that the action of the county was not sufficient to
provide the type of notice to citizens of the county that such matters
were to be considered at the meeting of the Rutherford County Regional
Planning Commission which should be expected under our law,” said the
opinion made public today from the Chancery Court of Tennessee, 16th
District.
“Under the mandates of the statute, the court then finds that the
actions of that commission regarding the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro
were in fact void and of no effect.”
While there was a notice of the meeting in a local newspaper, the
paper itself had “virtually no paid circulation,” and there was no
showing of any notice on the county’s cable television station or on its
website.
“The court assumed there was no ill intention or willful deception on the part of the county,” the ruling continued.
“We do not attribute any sinister motives to the county, though we
note the undercurrent of the argument presented by the plaintiffs. We
simply find that the county failed to publish the meeting…”
The opinion noted that under the county regulations there is not an
entitlement to a public hearing, but there is a requirement that the
public be properly notified.
It further said that the denial of permission for a building to be
used “as a religious meeting place” must be done in a non-discriminatory
manner.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation,
one of the attorneys working with the plaintiffs in the case, told WND
the next step likely will be a renewal of the attempts by the county to
grant building permission. He credited other attorneys on the case, Joe
Brandon and Tom Smith, with arguing the case successfully.
He said the plaintiffs contended the process ignored several factors,
including that the land where the now-unusable building stands formerly
was a pig farm, which is supposed to be anathema to Muslims.
He called it a “political power move” on the part of the powers who wanted the mosque to be built.
The Muslim organization building the mega-mosque had obtained
permission for nearly 53,000 square feet of buildings on its lot of
land, and the first 12,000-square-soot section was nearly done.
Rutherford County officials have said that they don’t expect any
buildings to be torn down, even though the process was violated.
Pamela Geller, publisher of AtlasShrugs.com, also is the author of the WND Books title “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance” and “The Post American Presidency: The Obama’s Administration’s war on America,” published by Simon Schuster.
She revealed how the Department of Justice, which though it has named
the Islamic Society of North America, the Council on American-Islamic
Relations and other key Muslim groups and figures as unindicted
co-conspirators in a scheme to fund the Palestinian terrorist group
Hamas, filed a friend-of-the-court brief demanding that the case against
the Murfreesboro mosque be dismissed.
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