How does a regional zoning “master plan” that was “spoken for” 15 years ago become an attack on “religious liberty” in 2021? When a mosque and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) say so — or so they see it.
When Islamic supremacists are either challenged over their entitlements or refused such entitlements, invariably they levy accusations of “Islamophobia” and claim a violation of their “religious rights.”
The Masjid Salaam Cultural Center in northeast Minneapolis expects to be awarded land for parking for their convenience.
The mosque’s imam, Abdimagid Omar, opened the mosque in 2016 and expected to get parking land, despite the fact that the land had been designated for other purposes since 2006. That didn’t matter.
Omar “said no one has harassed him in the vicinity of the mosque, but he would feel safer being able to park closer.”
He went on to say, absurdly:
When you are an immigrant, when you’re Black, when you’re Muslim, when you come into a neighborhood where you don’t live just to pray, anything can happen.
That was his argument. So now the mosque and CAIR are demanding that the city change its plans.
Buying city parkland is almost impossible… The Park Board is required to hold its land in public trust, says general counsel Brian Rice. “The presumption is that this board does not sell land.”
No such presumption is respected by Islamic supremacists when moving into an infidel community. Dhimmis are expected to comply; otherwise they will be slapped with the label of “Islamophobic.”
CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas jihad terror funding case, is infamous for making outrageous demands, and here is another:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota (CAIR-Minnesota) gave the Park Board a deadline this month to avoid a lawsuit.
Until Westerners refuse to be bullied and stop bowing to name-calling, propaganda, and manipulation, the West will keep losing the war against Islamization, as is clearly happening in Minnesota.
“Minneapolis mosque says Park Board’s refusal to sell land for parking infringes on religious liberty,” by Susan Du, Star Tribune, February 12, 2021:
The Masjid Salaam Cultural Center in northeast Minneapolis hosts daily prayers, Sunday school and the occasional food drive. But members say the mosque has one major flaw — it has no designated parking.
That means people coming to the mosque, including the elderly and disabled and the 170 children who attended school there before the pandemic, have to park several blocks away or get out of vehicles on the side of busy Central Avenue.
The mosque has tried for years to persuade the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to build parking stalls by paving over green space along St. Anthony Parkway. The conflict pits assertions of religious liberty against the sanctity of public parkland, and it’s coming to a head after the Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota (CAIR-Minnesota) gave the Park Board a deadline this month to avoid a lawsuit.
When Masjid Salaam opened at 3141 NE. Central Av. in 2016, Imam Abdimagid Omar believed he could persuade the Park Board to sell the mosque a slice of adjacent parkland. Omar isn’t fluent in English, so he appointed congregant Abdi Barkat as his spokesman. Barkat works near Masjid Salaam and has been praying there during his lunch hour for about two years.
He said no one has harassed him in the vicinity of the mosque, but he would feel safer being able to park closer. “When you are an immigrant, when you’re Black, when you’re Muslim, when you come into a neighborhood where you don’t live just to pray, anything can happen,” Barkat says.
Buying city parkland is almost impossible, however. The Park Board is required to hold its land in public trust, says general counsel Brian Rice. “The presumption is that this board does not sell land.”
The Park Board can sell land if commissioners decide it’s obsolete and unusable for any park purpose. Even then, a district judge would have to approve the sale.
But the land is already spoken for in the 2006 St. Anthony Parkway Regional Park Master Plan, which specifically calls for landscaping, public art and seating there.
The mosque could petition the Park Board to change the master plan, which would require a majority vote. But the commissioner for the area, Chris Meyer, is against it, and has been lobbying to get rid of parking lots since before he was elected to the Park Board.
Meyer moved from Sturgis, S.D., to Minneapolis at age 18 so he wouldn’t have to drive. He has never had a driver’s license. In 2015, he bought 13 copies of “The High Cost of Free Parking” by Donald Shoup to give each Minneapolis City Council member, then successfully campaigned to eliminate parking requirements around train stations.
“That has been my thing. That’s what I do,” Meyer says. “My passion is trying to move our city in a less car-dependent direction.”
The mosque persisted. In 2018, it purchased its building and found an ally in Commissioner AK Hassan….
mortimer says
The mindless, undefined ‘Islamophobia’ slur is the one-size-fits-all attack on the integrity of the dirty KUFAAR. The distracting ‘Islamophobia’ slander is just Islam-in-reverse, since it is no more than the MIRROR IMAGE of Islam’s own CANONICAL TEACHING called *AL WALAA WAL BARAA*.
In fact, it is Muslims who HATE the KAFIR and are canonically required to SHOW HOSTILITY towards all non-Muslims ‘for the sake of Allah’.
Nothing could be MORE ISLAMIC than *AL WALAA WAL BARAA*.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
– “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.” – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and HATE the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
Slandering dirty kafirs is OK under Sharia law. The ‘Islamophobia’ slur is merely a MISDIRECTION away from the real game of Islam … jihadic supremacism ‘in the Way of Allah’.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Mortimer.
notnolib says
For those that are unfamiliar, CAIR is a terrorist organization, with members, officers, and supporters being terrorists. The terrorists at CAIR follow the teachings of the pedophile pig-faced dog mohammed, who is also the inventor of islam and the moon-god allahahaha.
Joeyn says
In Islamic countries the Islamists amend the regional zoning Master plan as they like to justify the demolishing of places of worship of religious minorities. However in Western countries where Muslims are minorities they falsely claim victim status and successfully amend the Master plan to get special facilities for their own places of worship. It is unbelivable how gullible the West has become to these deceitful ploys based on Islam that are carried out by these Islamists.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Why not bulldoze the monstrous edifice dedicated to the commemoration of their psychopathic founder and replace it with a 911 memorial garden?
Tom says
It is common for a city to have a minimum parking spots based on the building capacity.
The Muslims should have acquired a place with existing adequate parking.
somehistory says
+1
Shirley Ann says
Many years ago, when Clinton & Bush opened America to Muslim Invasions, I can remember the Governor of Minnesota & the Mayor of Minneapolis, actually Begged for Muslims to come to their area in return they would be accommodated by Minnesota Gov. Of Course, Fed Money Flowed into the State & into DEM HANDS.
Now, the Muslims are making the Rules & are taking over City Councils in each area. YOU BET YOUR LIFE THAT THE WHINING MUSLIM VOICES, will GET THEIR Mosque Parking.
somehistory says
Ah, let’s have a pity party. “immigrant,”…”Black”…”moslim”….and a demanding whiner who cares nothing about other people or the rights of other people or the laws of a city, state, or country.
cair is a pack of moslim “lawyers” who see lawsuits aplenty, with money for their “distress” and “hurt feelings” and “discrimination” and get what they wanted that was denied due to laws and others’ rights.
“unindicted co-conspiritor” is cair…and would have been indicted if not for ‘o’ using his usurpation of power to stop the trial from going forward. They were conspiring to fund hamas and hezbollah for their terrorism…and funding these terror orgs.
Wondering if this ‘omar’ also changed his name from elmi in order to invade the country and make it change to suit islam.
These ugly buildings…”forts” in a forward position to take over the land…are almost always called “cultural centers.” That says so much…because they want to change the entire “culture” of the country into that which allows moslims to run roughshod over everyone else.
The Park Board should stand tough against the cair, the mosque guy who doesn’t speak English, and the moslim who has managed to get in a position of power in the local government.
As another person said above, they should have bought a plot of land that had parking….built a smaller fort…or not come to the U.S. in the first place. They could have stayed where they grew up and likely didn’t have cars to park.
The other residents of the city should not have to give up part of their park for these greedy, violent, lawfaring creeps. The other residents shouldn’t have to put up with a jillion cars streaming in for these moslims to clog the street and foul the air with their “preying” meetings.
Tell them to sell the building…if they can…and go back to somalia where they won’t need parking spots.
livingengine says
CAIR and Joe Kaufman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DwyQbGfkm8
gravenimage says
Mosque and CAIR say Minneapolis Parks Board violated religious rights with refusal to sell land for parking
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What rot. But there is nothing Muslims won’t pull.