Heated debate over the nature of Islam is overshadowing plans to build a mosque in northeast Temecula.
Critics, including the pastor of a church next to the mosque site, say the worship center is a bad fit for the area. They’re also concerned with what they describe as Islam’s extreme agenda of expansion.
The Islamic Center of Temecula Valley’s imam, or prayer leader, said his group is peaceful and only seeks more room to serve its members. And the civil rights manager for a Muslim-American advocacy group [terror-linked CAIR] said the mosque’s critics are ignorant, if not bigoted.
The proposal to build a 24,950-square-foot mosque on a 4-acre site on Nicolas Road is tentatively scheduled to come before the Temecula Planning Commission on Aug. 18.
According to its website, the center started in February 1998 with five families praying in each other’s houses during Ramadan, a holy month in the Muslim calendar.
Today the center serves between 150 and 200 families, Harmoush said.
The mosque would be built next to Calvary Baptist Church. Pastor Bill Rench worries the mosque is too large for the site.
But he said he’s particularly concerned about what he described as “the whole issue of Islam and what it stands for.”
“It’s certainly a religion that is not only different but contrary to Christianity,” he said.
“Where it’s dominant, religious freedom goes out the window … the message of Islam is the spread of Islam by whatever means necessary.”
Putting the mosque next to Calvary is “almost like trying to put oil and water together,” Rench added.
Grace Presbyterian Church is next to Calvary. Scott Dienhart, chairman of the finance committee at Grace, said the church’s board of elders has not met to discuss a position on the mosque.
Bob Kowell, president of the Murrieta Temecula Republican Assembly, said while he doesn’t have a problem with the mosque, “We’re for the free expression of all religions that don’t call for my death or your death or the suppression of women.”
The mosque needs to reject Osama bin Laden and holy war against non-Muslims, Kowell said.
“If they do not reject these things, then they’re a part of it,” he said.
An online group called Concerned Community Citizens is circulating a petition about the mosque. The petition states the mosque will lead to traffic congestion, noise pollution and other environmental problems.
Rejecting bin Laden and jihad don’t change the Koran. via Another Mosque proposal in US faces opposition | ummid.com.
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I don’t know if you know it or not but Temecula has for many decades been a very Christian some would say evangelical town. So it makes total sense for the Muslims to want to build a Mosque there.
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Well if we want to put a stop to this ” extreme agenda of expansion” by izlam, I would suggest first putting a complete stop to muzlim immigration. Due to their birthrates etc. that’s the only solution that makes any sense to me.
@ Mike That would make perfect sense, of course they would target extremely Christian areas in which to erect their monuments to izlam. They are invaders & mosques are not only monuments to izlam & jihad recruiting centers , they are also monuments to the conquest of the kuffar.
Is there a tally somewhere of proposed mosques that have been shut down by protest or other forces since 9.11 in the U.S., Europe, Canada? Or a comparison of how many proposals are happening now vs. before 2001?
Stopping immigration is not enough. Muslims in the U.S. who cannot abide our Constitution over their religion need to be persuaded to leave.
You could count them on the remaining fingers of a convicted thief under sharia no doubt.
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I have a feeling that given where California is, the townspeople will end up being infuriated at the raw deal they will get in the courts, being forced to have a mosque they otherwise would have blocked.
Ten years from now, we’ll be kicking ourselves in the ass for not doing anything about these evil doers when we still had a fighting chance…I blame the Obama supporters more than I do the muslims, whose intentions have always been obvious and deliberate. The U.S. born negroe was too dumb to see anything but a black candidate, who claimed to feel da pain of da colored man…All of the ennword sympathizers fall under this category as well. However, the people who knew better, and those that should’ve known better, but voted for him anyhow, without doing their homework, are the real traitors. It’s not completely their fault though…we’ve still got the wimps who won’t speak their minds, b/c they’re too scared they may offend a lunatic. Ten years from now, there won’t be anybody to offend, for we will be the lunatics, smashing our heads against a wall because we blew our chance to save the greatest country in the history of the world!
Since when is being labeled islamophobic by terrorists something to be considered. Small engagements decide big battles.
[...] on July 24, 2010 by creeping We told you about the opposition in Temecula, California to yet another multi-million dollar behemoth mosque in the U.S. It will be built right next to a church, looming over it. Here is the pastor’s [...]
from the description by the pastor this video is very deceptive- it does not show anything nearby to the mosque, does not show the neighborhood or the surroundings as described by the pastor- of course I am sure this is what zoning board will see and never look at the actual location.
One wonders as inthe mosque at ground zero- howmany actual MUSLIMS live nearby and wiull attend this giant mosque? Ground Zero area has mosquyes and no local popluations to support the gagantuan unecessary insult of a building.
And you can bet your bippy, 5x a day loudpeakers will be broadcasting calls in short time, making us hostage to their message- Muslims think church bells are the DEVIL, satanic- so I suggest to all churches near to mosques to ring them loudly at every prayer call in response, if necessary amplify them
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