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Post by avordvet on Oct 2, 2015 14:54:59 GMT -5
DOJ Sues Town for Nixing Rezoning Plan to Build Islamic TempleJudicial Watch, OCTOBER 02, 2015 In its latest effort to protect Muslim rights in the United States the Obama Justice Department is suing an Illinois town for denying a rezoning application to convert an office building into an Islamic temple. Failing to approve plans for the Islamic worship center violates a 2000 law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit filed this week in federal court. The accused are lawmakers in Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb with a population of about 60,000. In 2013 the Des Plaines City Council voted 5-3 to reject a rezoning request made by the American Islamic Center (AIC) to make a vacant office building in a manufacturing zone to an institutional zone that would allow a worship center. www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/10/doj-sues-town-for-nixing-rezoning-plan-to-build-islamic-temple/
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