Georgia town bans mosque in controversial vote

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By Patrick Howell O'Neill on December 03, 2014

A small Georgia city has voted to ban an Islamic group from renting a retail space and opening a temporary mosque in the city even after the landlord agreed to the deal.

The City Council of Kennesaw, a city of about 30,000 people in north Georgia, ultimately voted down the Muslim group’s request 4-1.

The issue has engendered a lot of tension in the town and from critics outside of it. To give you a small idea of the intensity of the attitudes at play, here’s the video’s description from the man who recorded this week’s City Council vote: “The scumbag lawyer for the terrorist org. says he will sue... good luck with that.”

Attorney Doug Dillard called the decision unconstitutional and “a blatant attack on first amendment rights." He says the group will continue to fight and is strongly considering a federal lawsuit against the city.

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http://www.dailydot.com/politics/kennesaw-mosque-vote-ban/

[Rex]

1. Wow.

However I do believe that also would happen in the small rural town I live in.

[lpbk2713]

2. Rednecks.

Is this the part of Georgia where "Deliverance" was filmed?

[Fumesucker]

4. Kennesaw runs middle to upper middle class suburban..

With a high percentage of megachurches.

[lpbk2713]

6. Could've fooled me.

I thought for sure I could hear banjos playing.

[Mariana]

12. I think it was church music you heard. nt.

[Fumesucker]

15. Lockheed is only a few miles away, lots of aerospace engineer and manager types live in Kennesaw

More likely to be squealing like pigs than playing banjos, if you catch my drift.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. And 100% Republican. Fancy that. Fuckers.

[cvoogt]

3. actually

this is the county (Cobb county) that has some of the best schools in Georgia. It's suburbia, not backwoods. I grew up there, in fact. Very red, very free-market, except I guess for 'ferners'.

[longship]

8. Great edumacation with those stickers on the biology books.

Which would undoubtedly still be there if it were not for SCOTUS. Apparently not many biology majors come out of Cobb County.

Just poking a little fun.

[cvoogt]

10. Yeah I know.

But even then. ... some of the best schools in GA. That's not saying much, I guess. It started really going downhill in the late 90's.

[onehandle]

5. Kennesaw. A looney city that REQUIRES you to own a gun.

YEEEEEEEHAAAAAA!

I grew up in Atlanta. A city of the 21st century.

Kennesaw is a town of the 1860s, with way, way too much money, a few miles away. Cobb county continually votes down letting rapid transit reach them from Atlanta to 'keep the negroes away.'

[Mariana]

13. Do you approve of this vote? nt.

[cyberswede]

9. Land of the free...

[Jenoch]

14. I know of a town that denied a zoning change

in order for a mosque to open in an existing building. The city was sued for denying the zoning change, and the city won the litigation. The previous year they denied a zoning change to a Christian group who wished to open a church in the same building.