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Obama Justice Dept. sues NJ township for rejecting mosque

Nov 23, 2016 12:50 pm By Robert Spencer

People have legitimate concerns about mosques going up in their neighborhood. Four separate studies since 1999 all found that 80% of U.S. mosques were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred and contempt for Jews and Christians. There are no countervailing studies that challenge these results. In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the “extremist ideology.” Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom’s 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project’s 2008 study. Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity ultimately to impose Islamic rule.

In the summer of 2011 came another study showing that only 19% of mosques in U.S. don’t teach jihad violence and/or Islamic supremacism. Specifically: “A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma calling for violence against non-believers. Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19% had no violent texts at all. Mosques that presented as Sharia adherent were more likely to feature violence-positive texts on site than were their non-Sharia-adherent counterparts. In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts. The leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshiper study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques. Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad. The leadership of mosques that featured violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.” That means that around 1,700 mosques in the U.S. are preaching hatred of infidels and justifying violence against them.

But none of this is allowed to be a consideration when a mosque is proposed for a particular area. It must be assumed by all parties that the mosque will be entirely benign and peaceful, and no different from a synagogue or church. So community leaders try to find other ways to keep mosques out — only to find themselves facing the full weight of Barack Obama’s Justice Department. And then it becomes a matter of having one’s career ruined and life destroyed, or approving the mosque.

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“Justice Dept. sues NJ township for rejecting mosque,” by Kelly Cohen, Washington Examiner, November 22, 2016:

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.”…

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Barack Obama, claiming victim status, mosques Tagged With: Bernards Township, Justice Department, New Jersey


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  1. Resistant says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Obama the islamist berk
    Makes me want to puke

    • john spielman says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      I say SUE the Department of (in)Justice! No doubt this will be stopped after Jan 20 2017!

      • particolor says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 3:44 am

        Will he SUE the American people now for Electing Donald Trump ??

        • Bob says

          Nov 24, 2016 at 7:40 am

          Should the West sue the muslim countries for not permitting the practice of any ‘religion’ bar islam, AND not allowing the building of a church, synagogue or any other non-muslim place of worship? No, forget it -the western politicos haven’t the guts!
          Why SHOULD any western town submit to a DEMAND that a mosque be built in their town?

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 24, 2016 at 11:54 am

      Thank God, and DJ Trump President elect!!! This Muslim in the white hut is on his way out!!! So is the minions in the so called Justice Dept.. Bye!!! Can’t wait!!!
      What makes me ? why the young Baron Trump and lovely Mrs. Trump are not moving into the white hut right away…. It probably needs fumigation and a clean up of the butchered animals blood, to make it the White House, and FIT to live in again!!! Schools are not that big an issue for the first family.. But I will bet when Mrs. Trump took a tour of the place, she thought, ahh, no my son and I are not being forced to live in this make shift mosque, clean it out before I move in there!!! Just saying…………..

  2. RichardL says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 1:05 pm

    just two more months. Same time next year CAIR, ISNA, MAS are closed and their officers tweeting from prison.

    America has escaped narrowly. Now let’s see what’s happening in Europe.

    • desidude2 says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 7:18 pm

      unfortunately Obama has bought a house in DC among other properties and I am sure he will be there to stand to protect his favorite people and religion,Muslim and Islam. He is not going away very soon.

      • Natalie says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 8:15 am

        I read that he bought an apartment in Dubai as well. Jan 21st he will put on his Jalabiyah and bow down to Mecca.

    • marie says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 4:04 am

      Yes…America has just dodged a bullet.
      Thank god for Trump
      Cannot wait!

  3. linnte says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    We have laws in our country that need to be followed. As much as I hate Islam, we still need to follow the law, else this same thing could happen to a Christian or other religious group. If the county government is indeed changing the “goal post” then that is wrong.

    Someday, in the future though, Obama will be revealed in history books as the Islamic shill traitor that he is!

    • Dockemeyer says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 11:20 pm

      If we’re going to follow the laws, we then need to begin with the ruling from 1952 which prohibits the immigration of Muslims…

  4. Frank Scarn says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    The list of cases where the DOJ will be voluntarily withdrawing its complaints will be published soon after Sessions is confirmed.

  5. davej says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    Liberals, lead by Obama, have identified with Muslims as the next great civil rights cause, a simple extension of the Black civil rights movement. Unfortunately they neglected to understand what Islam actually teaches and stands for. So they see nothing wrong with inflicting a Mosque on a community that has good reasons for not wanting it. The Democrats have become anti-democratic.

  6. Vic says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 2:00 pm

    Trying to understand: Why did the Bernards Township sell them the land in the first place? Did the Muslim group not disclose that it was to build a mosque? Is this plot of land available to build a house of worship for any faith? Does the township have plans to use this plot of land for a different purpose? How have the intentions of the buyers changed that have provoked a change of heart in the board members? Perhaps the silver lining is that the members of the board have started to wake up from their willfull blindness and realized they hadn’t seen the results of the studies RS mentions. Or not bothered to do due diligence on their buyers–which btw, should be done on all buyers as a matter of course and as part of their roles representing the people of the town. And now, what to do? They are going to need some savvy lawyers steeped in Constitutional, State and Sharia law to face the DOJ. Not easy.

  7. mustapha crap says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    Trumps DOJ will simply reverse these politically motivated prosecutions carried out by Obamas IOC compliant DOJ (Department Of Jihad)
    The sooner the treacherous Obama exits the Whitehouse the better Trump will purge ALL government institutions of Muslim Brotherhood sympathisers and Islamic infiltration

  8. Don McKellar says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Time is running out for the secret moslem in the White House. What does he have in store in these closing weeks? I bet he has some big plans. Watch.

    • Judi says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 4:45 pm

      There is a petition circulating, issued by Jay Sekulow, of ACLJ, pre-emptIng and hopefully thwarting Obama making some draconian plans in his last days which has signatures passing the 100,000 mark.

  9. miriamrove says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 4:18 pm

    I go to Bernard township. it is near where I live. It is a very affluent town and the last thing they need a ff…mosque. Besides by the time it hit the court obama will be gone and trump will reverses it. m

    • Kay says

      Nov 24, 2016 at 10:35 am

      Let’s hope Trump can reverse it.
      O seems intent on destroying our country.

  10. Judy says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    The days are numbered for the muslim terrorist, transgender, homosexual lover in the white house. I thank God that he will soon be gone (out of the white house) but not out of the human race. The mentally deranged and morally bankrupt who put him in our white house are as evil as he is. They will have to answer for their actions. If they ever wake up it will be too late.

    • Thomas says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 5:24 pm

      In the election just completed NJ voted for a continuation of the muslim program. If the mosque gets built all the good democrat supporters will get to experience first hand the diversity experience they wished on others. Why protect them from their bad decisions? Force them to allow the mosque to be built and they may reconsider the implications of their votes next time.

  11. Angemon says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    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.

    Great, the Politburo deciding what people living hundreds of miles away must do… I wonder how many people in Bernards Township campaigned to give Obama more powers and are now regretting it… And the “right-thinking” people (i.e., leftists living in their cosy, bubbly echo chambers in California and New York) wonder why the average working Joe voted Hillary out:

  12. David says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    I don’t know of anyone who would want a SATANIC house of demon worship in their neighborhood!
    Islam is Satan worship. Allah is SATAN!
    The mouth piece of Satan was the deranged PSYCOPATH Mohamed!
    THAT SHOULD SAY IT ALL!

  13. gravenimage says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    Obama Justice Dept. sues NJ township for rejecting mosque
    ……………………..

    *Appalling*. Of course Bernards Township should have the right to deny a Mosque.

  14. duh swami says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 5:40 am

    Mosque building is how Islam spreads …Start with one, end up with thousands…

  15. Politicalqrm says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 7:24 am

    That area of NJ is beautiful… Of course the muslims want to crap it up with a mosque. Hopefully, within 2 months that lawsuit will be withdrawn..

    Again, Muslims: if you don’t like it here and find our way of life abhorrent, leave.. there are 50 countries that are majority muslim.. Go live there.. We won’t bother you.

    Your culture and American culture are not compatible..

  16. Robert_K says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 7:51 am

    Bet that the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) is funding the mosque. The number of mosques has increased by 70% since 911 – part of the Muslim Brotherhoods “Civilizational Jihad”.

  17. Gerald Mucci says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 10:12 am

    Islam needs to be considered primarily a political ideology based on its doctrine and practice. Sure, it has its religious component or “cover”. And, yes, it has its (deceptive) “peaceful” segments of doctrine. But on the whole, it is a violence prone, intolerant, supremacist political and military ideology that has no place in western culture. Viewing it as primarily a religion will give it inappropriate and dangerous rights that will turn our nation into a tribal dark ages hell-hole.

  18. Vito says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 10:46 am

    Islam requires total domination of the world by any means including violence. This is just one small step in that direction.The religion and its members should be banned from the US.

  19. Carolyne says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    When Loretta Lynch is removed from the DOJ (And I’d like to see her forcibly removed in handcuffs) I hope that a bunch of these thugs build a mosque right next door to her home so that she can be awakened each morning before dawn with the sound of a caterwauling camel.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 24, 2016 at 9:18 pm

      I don’t want to see *any* new Mosques–certainly not ones broadcasting the Adnan call to prayer. My sense of shadenfreud is not that overwhelming.

  20. Cretius says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Would you invite a stranger into your home who refused to work, lusted after your wife and daughter, who hated your religion, politics and culture and insisted you provide clothes, money and change everything you believe in while insisting you follow his lead? Oh yes, get rid of the family dog and give up pork. Not to mention adopting some really barbaric practices. I thought not but do ask your politicians and media this question. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a straight answer.

  21. citycat says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 3:17 am

    A mosque is a mosque is a mosque.
    Violence? That’s an evil smokescreen.
    Decision making? That’s time wasting.
    If a mosque is not violent then it’s ok? No way. The more subtle the evil the more dangerous.
    Muslims being nice? Evil to a different level.
    No violence is necessary al all, at least here in Engeland.
    The more persistant danger is the quietly grinning breeders, quietly multiplying, and quietly creeping.

  22. Cretius says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Islamophobia is a trumped-up Islamic political term designed to further an agenda, as indicated by Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former member of the International Institute for Islamic Thought, who was there at the inception of the term. The term is a prime example of the Islamic teaching of using deceit or lies to protect or further the goals of Islam. The term is contrary to the definition of a phobia. Concise Oxford Dictionary. See also the Oxford definition of racist. By definition, Islam is not a race.

    This loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliché conceived in the bowels of Mohammedan think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics. It is sad and a real danger that western leaders and the mainstream media have bought into this canard.

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