U.S. city rolls over for
radical mosque, Park excludes 'citizens of all other
faiths and those of no faith' by Leo Hohmann, 4/25/16, WND
A radical mosque known for breeding
terrorists has been granted special privileges by the city of Bloomington,
Minnesota, which allows its members to take over a public park and treat it as
their own, to the exclusion of other residents, according to complaints filed
by a citizens group.
Mohamed Farah, 22, is the older
brother of Adnan Farah. He is also charged with providing material support to
an overseas terrorist organization. The Friends of Smith Park started a
petition drive and took its case to the Bloomington City Council with a formal
complaint Monday night. At issue is the Dar al-Farooq
mosque, which WND has previously reported has a record of turning Somali refugees into jihadists for
ISIS and other terror groups.
At least half a dozen known Somali
terrorists have attended Dar al-Farooq in recent years including Adnan Farah,
20, and his brother Mohamed, 22, who pleaded guilty in April to providing
material support to ISIS. The mosque is headed by Waleed Idris al-Meneesey, who
preaches hatred of Jews straight from the Quran and the hadiths. Adnan Farah, 20, was born in the
U.S. to Somali refugee parents and could now spend up to 15 years in behind
bars.
Now it has come to light that city
officials in Bloomington have given al-Meneesy and his Sharia-compliant
followers special privileges that violate its conditional-use permit, or CUP,
and that are not offered to any other religious group, said attorney and
retired Lt. Col. Larry Frost. By doing so, Frost said the city has exposed itself
to potential lawsuits from churches and synagogues in the area that have not
been afforded the same rights.
“According to your police officers,
you’ve privileged Dal al-Farooq worshipers above all other religions. You’ve
made Smith Park a Dar al-Farooq-only zone after the park is already closed,
excluding citizens of all other faiths and those of no faith,” said Frost, who
represents Friends of Smith Park.
The council members sat mum during
Frost’s comments. Watch
attorney Larry Frost lodge complaints against the city of Bloomington’s
granting of special rights and privileges to al-Farooq mosque.
Long list
of abuses - The list of abuses and alleged
violations by Dar al Farooq, which was allowed to build in a residential area,
is long. They range from dumping asbestos in the trash to having three to five
times the occupancy allowed by its conditional-use permit, making excess noise,
shining car lights and producing overflow parking at all hours of the night
during the month of Ramadan – and to a lesser extent every weekend. The mosque
members take over the adjacent public park and force out residents of nearby
neighborhoods, often staying in the park well after the posted closing time of
11 p.m.
Neighbors have been told by mosque
workers to get out of Smith Park “because the park belongs to [the Muslims],”
said one local woman. Another local resident, Matilda
Zumba, who lives in a neighborhood near the mosque, approached the city council
Monday night with an interpreter. She said she has two small children who are
always playing outside.
“I’m very afraid because there is a
lot of traffic and a lot of speeding and the people of Dar al-Farooq don’t
respect our speed limits and the safety of our children,” Zumba told the
council. “I’m also now afraid to take our children to the park because there
are many people there who do not respect the rights of our own children to play
there.
“A lot of times the other children
don’t want to work together to share with our children. Sometimes their parents
are there and they may shout at them but they don’t do anything, they just
continue to let their children interfere. The park is very important to the
Spanish community especially and we met there a lot, but now we don’t because
we don’t feel safe.”
Mosque attendees have flooded the
neighborhood with offsite parking, blocked driveways and walked through
neighbors’ yards without permission. The city has told neighbors if they park
in joint-use parking, the neighbors have to “hurry to the sidewalk” and get out
of the parking lot so it would be available for the mosque.
Last week one supporter of the
neighborhood group witnessed mosque abusers using joint-parking areas to
practice driving at 1:30 a.m. – by using city garbage cans as obstacles. When
the witness came to film the event, three young mosque members confronted him,
one demanding to know what he was doing and telling him he could not film the
offending car or its license. Later, a police officer told the witness that
“only mosque members can use the parking lots after normal park hours” – in
other words, the public space is reserved for use by one particular religion
after it’s closed to the public.
The city took more than three years
and 67 drafts to complete the conditional-use permit with the mosque. Built into
that contract is a requirement that the city use a laborious five-phase,
six-month enforcement process to correct any Dar al-Farooq violations.
“Clearly that’s a non-enforcement
clause,” Frost said. “The city has to give this amazing provision to every new
church applicant, and I would argue, every current CUP holder can demand the
same. Why? Because you are privileging Dar al-Farooq above other religions.
“One of your own council members
said ‘I feel like we’re punishing applicants that came after Dar al Farook,’
because you required them to do things that Dar al-Farooq is not required to
do.”
The city council granted a
conditional-use permit to Dar al Farooq enabling the mosque to operate in a
residential neighborhood, then failed to enforce either the CUP or the
joint-use agreement allowing the mosque to use Smith Park. As a result, the neighbors of Smith
Park have been reduced to second-class status, unable to use and enjoy a public
park adjacent to their neighborhood.
Mosque actions violating the CUP and
JUA were not stopped because the city attorney insisted that the federal
Religious Land-use and Incarcerated Persons Act, commonly called RLUIPA, did
not allow the city to enforce the CUP/JUA, effectively making the neighborhood
around Dar al Farooq a zoning-free area. The city attorney also told council
members that enforcement of the CUP could result in lawsuits against council
members in their private capacities. Both legal ideas are flatly false, said
Frost.
“Your own city attorney, former attorney,
told you that you had to do that, but you made a grave legal and moral error
when you signed a CUP and then didn’t enforce it, because that’s not what RLUPA
says,” Frost told the council on Monday night.
RLUIPA is a federal statute that
requires local governments to issue permits for houses of worship equally when
it comes to construction projects. “But once you have the CUP you’re no
longer in the permitting phase – it is not a legal permitting issue,” Frost
said. “Despite what your previous city attorney said, you can enforce the CUP
and you must.”
Friends of Smith Park are asking
only that all city council resolutions concerning Dar al Farooq be enforced,
including retroactive enforcement where legal and appropriate – exactly as
would be the case for all other religious institutions with a conditional-use
permit.
A mosque
is not just a house of worship. Most Americans believe a mosque or
Islamic Center is simply a “Muslim church,” when in fact it operates much
differently, said Debra Anderson, coordinator of the Minneapolis chapter of ACT
For America.
“In Islam, the prophet Mohammad is
viewed as the perfect example of a man,” she said. “Anything he did is
considered the example for all Muslims to follow for all time.” Mohammad used
the first mosques as political and military bases as well as houses of worship.
There are now as many as 3,100
mosques in America and nearly 80 percent of them have been opened since the
Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “It has been from the mosque that devout Mohammadans
(Muslims) have waged their war of global conquest, slaughtering non-Muslims who
refuse to surrender to Islam and producing a trail of blood and tears across
world history,” Anderson said.
Last month police in Germany raided a property near a mosque and found a large cache of military-grade weapons being
stored by Islamists.
Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, once said: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our
helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the Muslim faithful our soldiers…”
Bloomington’s Dar al-Farooq is just
one out of 83 mosques in Hennepin county. There are 163 mosques, Islamic
centers, masjids and prayer spaces in Minnesota at last count, Anderson said.
“How many are in your county? Who is
the Imam? What are they teaching? Are they teaching that ‘Allah is our
objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way;
dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope?” Anderson asks, referring to the
motto of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In an email alert Tuesday, Anderson
said three civilian Minnesota women, two of which are grandmothers, have been
“doing the work that our FBI and law enforcement agencies used to do before all
their training manuals were purged of anything deemed offensive by the Muslim
Brotherhood … before our military, intelligence, and law enforcement
institutions became ‘sensitive’ to blasphemy laws as dictated by Islamic Sharia
law. Yes, the country is in great trouble. You are needed.”
“Please, stand with these American
patriots in Bloomington in their effort to protect and preserve the safety and
livability of their neighborhood from this radical mosque that is clearly
demonstrating their utter disregard for American law, their neighbors … and
more importantly our national security.”
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