Troy City Attorney Lori Grigg Bluhm said: “The city articulated several reasons for its denial of Adam’s multiple and significant variance requests for a retrofit of an existing building on Rochester Road that abuts residential properties. Some of these requested variances were significant.”
In response to this, Hamas-linked CAIR is crying “Islamophobia” and suing. We have seen the same scenario play out all over the country: Muslims demand zoning variances in order to build mosques in residential areas, claim “Islamophobia” when they’re denied, no matter how reasonable and carefully explained the denial, and sue. All too often, the Justice Department has then sided with the Muslim group, and forced the municipality in question to accept the mosque and even pay damages to the Muslims.
The purpose of this intimidation is to reinforce the principle that wherever Islamic law and practice and American law and practice disagree, it is American law and practice that must give way. Ultimately, Americans are going to have to decide whether to give way entirely to that principle and submit to Sharia, or to draw the line and say “no more” at some point. But that point is unlikely to be the mosque in Troy, Michigan.
CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. One CAIR operative in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
“Muslim group sues Troy over mosque denial,” by Robert Snell, Detroit News, November 8, 2018:
The city of Troy discriminated against a Muslim community group by rejecting plans to build an Islamic center, according to a federal court lawsuit filed Thursday.
The nonprofit Adam Community Center sued the city council, planning commission and members of Troy’s zoning board of appeals. The group has tried unsuccessfully to build a community center in Troy, which has approximately 53 places of worship within its 33.6-square-mile border but not one for Muslims, according to the Michigan chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The lawsuit alleges Troy officials purposely and unconstitutionally tried to block the Muslim community from building a mosque along Rochester Road, north of Big Beaver Road, by unfairly and illegally applying zoning ordinances.
Adam Community Center sued five months after the Troy Zoning Board of Appeals indicated there was no acceptable place in the city left for the group to build a mosque. The decision prompted a Justice Department investigation into the city’s zoning board of appeals practices, which is ongoing, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“Freedom of religion is a benchmark of American civil rights and is a beacon of freedom that shines across the globe,” Amy Doukoure, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement Thursday. “When public officials are apparently guided by Islamophobia in their decision-making, we have an obligation to fight back to preserve our religious freedoms.”
Troy officials “will aggressively defend this lawsuit,” City Attorney Lori Grigg Bluhm wrote in an email to The News.
“The city articulated several reasons for its denial of Adam’s multiple and significant variance requests for a retrofit of an existing building on Rochester Road that abuts residential properties,” she wrote.
The center could not have been built without parking and other variances, Grigg Bluhm added.
“Some of these requested variances were significant,” she wrote. “Through the variance process, (Adam) was required to demonstrate that they could not develop the property in accordance with Troy’s zoning ordinances because of hardships that related to the land itself.”…
Emilie Green says
“Ultimately, Americans are going to have to decide whether to give way entirely to that principle and submit to Sharia, or to draw the line and say “no more” at some point.”
How much In Your Face Dished Out By Muslims is it going to take?
Andy says
BOYCOTT ISLAM!!!
So It Begins. Trump to Sign Executive Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3QtfjQqoE
Andy says
Never forgive ISLAM for the damage they have done to THE WORLD!!!
NEVER FORGIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CJVEIfgK2M
Terry says
Rick Keating · School of Hard Knocks.
A very short history lesson:
In 732 AD the Muslim Army which was moving on Paris was defeated and
turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martell.
…in 1571 AD the Muslim Army/ Navy was defeated by the Italians and
Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to attack southern Europe
in the Battle of Lepanto.
…in 1683 AD the Turkish Muslim Army, attacking Eastern Europe, was finally
defeated in the Battle of Vienna by German and Polish Christian Armies.
In 1783 AD when the British Colonies that would become the United States of
America gained independence from Great Britain, 5 Muslim countries of North
Africa declared war on our newly independent nation, hijacking and
kidnapping merchant sailors and selling them for ransom, or into slavery.
When the United States of America was established, we were forced to pay
extortion fees amounting to 20 – 25% of our federal budget to those Muslim
countries to keep them from their hijacking and kidnapping. It took two
administrations, Washington and Adams, to build a sufficient Navy so that
President Jefferson, in 1805, could send the Navy and Marines to conquer
Tripoli and end the piracy. Islam has been at war with the USA since our
founding.
If these battles had not been won we might be speaking Arabic and
Christianity could be non – existent; Judaism certainly would be… And let
us not forget that Hitler was an admirer of Islam and that the Mufti of
Jerusalem was Hitler’s guest in Berlin and raised Bosnian Muslim SS
Divisions: the 13th and 21st Waffen SS Divisions who killed Jews, Russians,
Gypsies, and any other “subhumans”.
This crap has been going on for 1,400 years and half of the
politicians don’t even know it..!
Reflecting
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine
that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Pause a moment, reflect back. These events are actual events from history.
They really happened!!
Do you remember? I remember All of These
1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
Muslim males.
3. In 1972 a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where
a fuse was lit on final approach, it was blown up shortly after landing by
Muslim males.
4. In 1973 a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome , with 33 people killed, when
it was attacked with grenades by Muslim males.
5. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim males.
6. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by
Muslim males.
7. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim males.
8. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
Muslim males.
9. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver
trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim males.
10. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim males.
11. In 1993 , the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim
males.
12. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim
males.
13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to
take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into
the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.
Thousands of people were killed by Muslim males.
14. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim
males.
15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by—you
guessed it—a Muslim male.
16. In 2013, Boston Marathon Bombing 4 Innocent people including a child
killed, 264 injured by Muslim males.
17. In 2014, thousands of Christian men, women, and children are
slaughtered, defiled, and beheaded by Muslim males.
No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to
ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on
killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile
certain people.
Absolutely No Profiling! Instead, they must conduct random searches of
80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification,
secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year
old’s, Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former
Governor Joe Foss, BUT leave Muslim Males alone lest airport security be
guilty of profiling.
Have the American people completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of
Reason???
Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and
other stupid attorneys, along with Federal Justices that want to thwart
common sense, feel ashamed of themselves — if they have any such sense.
As the writer of the award winning story ‘Forrest Gump’ so aptly put it,
“STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES”
Each opportunity that you have to send this to a friend or media outlet…
Do It.!
MIkde says
You go Troy. in 1982 Muslim created a report as to how they will dominate to world and in 1991 wrote how they will conquer north America in the next 100 years. Refer to ACTFORAMERICA.ORG. That line needs to be drawn real soon. Our Grandchildren will pay the ultimate price. When they get a hold and in office. Jews and LGBTQ will be the first to fell the pain
Terry says
Not outrageous at all. An idea whose time has come. When Hamas-apologist Linda Sarsour and the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America tells Muslims not to assimilate, she is instructing them to advance sharia supremacism. Sharia is not only incompatible with the Constitution, it is antithetical. In other words, sharia is sedition because it seeks to replace the Constitution with another system of government. The author of this article is a useful idiot for the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. If we would not tolerate the ideology of the Klan or Communism, why should we tolerate the ideology of Islam? Muslims in America have a choice—Islam or the Constitution. If they chose Islam, they are telling us where their loyalties lay. If they have taken an oath of citizenship, then it was a false oath & We the People should not be forced to uphold a contract they have already broken.
Newt Gingrich
Nona says
Gofr Goddess’ sake Why, then, doesn’t the city of Troy, SUE back?!!
THere would be many reasons to do this. It’s time to stop this intimidation!
CogitoErgoSum says
The staff attorney for CAIR, Amy Doukoure, reminds us that the United States is a beacon of religious freedom that shines across the world. Yes, it is. Why is that? Why aren’t countries dominated by Islam considered beacons of freedom of religion — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran? Please, Ms. Doukoure, the truth is that Islam first brings discord and then fighting and then death and then the END of religious freedom wherever it takes root. The followers of Islam are commanded to destroy all other religions by their god in their scriptures. When a Muslim speaks to you of freedom of religion keep in mind that he or she is ignoring Quran 9:29 — until the time is right to remind all Muslims of it. Then Islam means death to freedom of religion and the beacon goes dark.
Bonnie loranger says
It is time to declare Islam not a religion. It can be done.
Ragdoll says
So the mosque would be a…….. Trojan horse??
(Thanks I’ll be here all week)
Benedict says
There are already too many Trojan horses in the US.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Vyx says
This is NOT an Islamic area. There is a mosque in three nearby communities that are also NOT Islamic.
FYI, the same thing was done in Sterling Heights, which neighbors Troy. They decided to build a mosque in a residential area, and when they city would not re-zone, they sued and won. The DOJ is actively making this happen. I believe it’s on another appeal, but their plan is to put a giant mosque on a main road next to a subdivision and bus people in and out, since there is NO parking. And the government is forcing the city to do it against the will– and needs– of the local community.
gravenimage says
Thank you for the view on the ground, Vyx.
Mickey says
Freedom of Religion definitely does not include Islam. Islam is not a religion although the Muslim population would have you believe it is to use it against our Constitutional Republic. CAIR has been designated a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia and Egypt and I cannot believe our Country hasn’t done it. The Muslim Brotherhood is a dangerous entity and has been infiltrating our government for years. We banned Islam in 1952 and we need to remember this and obey our Constitution. These people are a danger to our civilized Country.
We pushed them out before in the 1801 Barbary Wars, and we should be doing it now instead of opening our arms to them. They are barbaric and will destroy America as soon as they get another leader like Obama to tear us down. These people don’t belong here and I don’t care if I’m called a racist because Islam is not a race.
One thing we can definitely say about Islam is that is it not solely confined to a belief system. If it is a religion it is not a religion only. Islam is a total system of life and contains within itself a particular social system, judicial system, and political system which includes geo-political aspirations – the conquest and administration of territory. THIS IS NOT COHESIVE WITH THE US CONSTITUTION. Often liken Islam to a duck-billed platypus which superficially resembles an otter. Upon closer examination, one finds this animal has a duck-like bill, lays eggs, and has many other characteristics which are not otter-like. So it cannot therefore remain in the biological category containing otters. It is simply too different and has to have its own category. I believe the same thing is true of Islam. It is much too different from the other religions to remain in the religion category, it should be uniquely classified in its own category.
We can also say that our constitution already says:
1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, a.k.a. the McCarran-Walter Act(An act to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; and for other purposes)
H.R. 13342; Pub.L. 414; 182 Stat. 66.
82nd Congress; June 27, 1952.
SUMMARY
Otherwise known as the McCarran-Walter Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was meant to exclude certain immigrants from immigrating to America, post World War II and in the early Cold War. The McCarran-Walter Act moved away from excluding immigrants based simply upon country of origin. Instead it focused upon denying immigrants who were UNLAWFUL, IMMORAL (which we can say these Muslims are immoral due to the fact that they believe in rape, marrying little girls and incest) immoral, DISEASED (first of all we have these refugees coming here with TB) in any way, POLITICALLY RADICAL, (Muslims don’t believe in our Constitutional Republic or our laws, thus they want to implement Sharia) etc. and accepting those who were willing and able to ASSIMILATE into the US ECONOMIC, SOCIAL and POLITICAL STRUCTURES, which restructured how immigration law was handled. Furthermore, the most notable exclusions were anyone even remotely associated with communism which in the early days of the Cold War was seen as a serious threat to US democracy. The main objective of this was to block any spread of communism from outside post WWII countries, as well as deny any enemies of the US during WWII such as Japan and favor “good Asian” countries such as China. The McCarran-Walter Act was a strong reinforcement in immigration selection, which was labeled the best way to preserve national security and national interests. President Truman originally vetoed the law, deeming it discriminatory; however there was enough support in Congress for the law to pass.
(Summary by Wade Johnson)
FYI says
A mosque is a temple to the pagan moslem god baal.
allah is NOT the Judeo-Christian God.
allah is “the best of deceivers” k3:54
Or….baal.
livingengine says
Cincinnati’s WCPO had three separate broadcasts promoting CAIR’s bogus hate report, even though they never read it. https://youtu.be/rIAJ_dGMhoc
Stop the information dominance., tell the stations that you want BALANCED news coverage of CAIR.
Resistance is not futile says
Black people must wake up and stop allowing muslims to fool them into converting to islam. Because of history some black people feel like Christianity is the slave masters religion. Ofcourse it was the religion of the Spaniards, French, British, Portugese, Dutch etc., but black people been free for generations, surely the first free blacks would have had time to think about leaving Christ if they felt the need to. Even if one wanted to run away from Christ to escape some idea of historic colonialism, slavery etc., running into the open arms of islam is about the worst place one could possibly run to to escape that, because Muhammad who muslims claim is a prophet had black slaves. As a result of his example muslims enslaved Africans for about 1000 years longer than the Europeans did. The Europeans almost certainly also bought Africans from the Arab muslim slave traders. If it wasn’t for castration Arabia would probably have a sizeable black population today as proof of this history, and maybe much less blacks would be able to be fooled by the slave masters religion. Islam did terrible things to Africans yet very few people even acknowledge this.
Rev. G says
Troy is the city due west of Sterling Hts. They share a border.it also happens to be the county line, Sterling Hts. InMacomb county, Troy in Oakland. You may remember Sterling Hts from a couple years back, same situation.
Cicero says
This legal jihad is not just happening in Troy USA. It is happening in the U.K. as well. The modus operandi is the same. Chose a very prominent spot \ building preferably adjacent to an ancient church or residential area where there are very few Muslims. Then apply for planning. Apply and then reapply . Do not take no for an answer. If still rejected appeal to a higher authority ( no not zMohammed ?but Central Government ) Win. Start building . Buy up allsurrounding properties. Let accommodation out to large Muslim families. The neighbourhood changes to an Islamic one.
somehistory says
They want to build another barracks to house their soldiers for further war. Weapons will be stored therein and plans will be made between the times of preying and proclaiming their hate and desire to kill.
The Justice Dept now has a new AG. Perhaps Troy will come out the winner.
The people in any community should have a say and be able to decide if they want this barracks and its soldiers to take over their area.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Suggestion: a citizens’ initiative to counter these Islamic incursions.
Release a few pigs, with enough food and water, onto the site. Do this whenever they sue. Make arrangements with a pig farm to have the animals delivered at short notice. Of course, be ready to break into the site if necessary. Let’s see how long their litigations and these incursions last.
gravenimage says
Michigan: Hamas-linked CAIR claims “Islamophobia,” sues city of Troy over denial of mosque in residential area
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More “lawfare”. I hope the judge throws this case out.
Renate says
Has anyone ever heard a Muslim being contrite about anything to do with Islam or Muslims? I haven’t. They need to take a good long look in the mirror before they talk about anyone else being bigoted.
Vicky says
Until leftist activist judges are replaced by constitutional ethical judges, and these heinous hugely middle eastern funded lawsuits are thrown out, these jihadi HQ’s will continue to invade and claim our country.
Terra Nova says
May be, muslims, can we make it better for you and build a private mosque for each of you?
And America, when the chief of the CIA is a muslim and all high positions are taken by muslims, then there is something very wrong, and it must have started about 25 years ago.
Everything gets sold to muslims,, Chinese, Japanese, etc. We as people got sold out by our governments
already, but ‘FOLLOW THE MONEY’. Your greed has no borders.
RegT says
Michigan should do exactly what the muslim signs ask for – to boycott bigotry. Beginning with removing all muslims from their state, since they are the greatest bigots know to mankind. Their qur’an demands it. islam requires them to be bigots. Just as with the Left of Western Civilization, the muslims accuse everyone else of the very things for which they themselves are guilty. Since that kind of hypocrisy is a defining symptom of “Leftism” (socialism, communism), we see another reason why the Left loves islam.
Obbop says
The Founder’s writings instruct us about tyranny and how to respond to it. I view Islam as tyrannical along with the New World Order mob with its love of open-borders. The Cultural Marxists are a threat to the USA and Western civilization. All these threats are growing and many monolithic corporations are backing these dangers. With traitors abounding inside the USA I fear that it may take Revolutionary War Two to defeat those foes.
Sande says
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution says it all.