tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5039648657199325582024-03-19T03:30:25.582-07:00Suffa Dawat Center IssueIn November 2014 a small group of Muslims wanted a Mosque to be added to a retail strip center. The City said 'No' as the zoning was for general business. A Federal suit was filed and Kennesaw settled, giving the Mosque $18,000 for their legal costs. The Mosque is located at: 2750 JILES RD SUITE #109, KENNESAW GA 30144 My contact via: consumerissues@aol.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503964865719932558.post-26375390465042810502020-04-24T00:00:00.000-07:002020-04-23T21:43:14.925-07:00<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Ramadan in 2020 will start on Friday, the <b>24th of April</b>(<span class="hdate">24/4/2020</span>) and will continue for 30 days until Saturday, the <b>23rd of May</b>.</div>
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Note that in the Muslim calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Muslims will celebrate Ramadan on the sunset of Thursday, the <b>23rd of April</b>.</div>
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Although Ramadan is always on the same day of the Islamic calendar, the date on the Gregorian calendar varies from year to year, since the Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar and the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar. This difference means Ramadan moves in the Gregorian calendar approximately 11 days every year. The date of Ramadan may also vary from country to country depending on whether the moon has been sighted or not.</div>
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<span class="_4yxo" style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: inherit;">Masjid Suffah of Kennesaw</span> has been operating for about four years in a strip mall on Jiles Road behind the Publix grocery store that fronts Cobb Parkway. The prayer center’s permit was granted by the City Council following an initial denial by a 4-1 vote in December of 2014. After Doug Dillard, the attorney representing mosque members, threatened to sue the council for violating the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, council members reversed their decision.</div>
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Now Masjid Suffah leaders are pursuing the initial steps to move to a permanent location behind the Bank of America on Pine Mountain Road near Cobb Parkway. Mohammad Jafari, the imam or leader of prayer at the mosque, said that while mosque leaders would like to have the facility built sometime next year, a more realistic construction table would likely see it opening in two or three years. Fundraising for the facility, he adds, will be the ultimate factor of when it is built.</div>
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The mosque has been the topic of several discussion threads on the social media site Nextdoor. The traffic generated by the facility is among the points of concern.</div>
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“My question is who in their infinite wisdom approved the construction of a potentially heavily attended, non-residential facility in a residential area on a single lane street that is already heavily burdened with traffic? Am I missing something?” wrote Larry Krause, a Pine Mountain Road resident.</div>
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But the city has yet to receive any building plans, and no votes have been taken regarding the proposed mosque site by the city’s planning commission or council, according to Councilman Chris Henderson, who says the mosque has so far only gotten approval for mass grading of the site and pre-engineering work.</div>
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In 2016, mosque officials said their plans called for an 8,500-square-foot space with a larger worship area, multi-purpose space for kids to play and about 200 parking spaces. The property, which was donated to the mosque by a member, was said at the time to be about 3.5 acres.</div>
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The mosque has yet to submit to the city any documents pertaining to its proposed facility.</div>
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“I would assume at some point, it will come to us for final plat approval,” Henderson said of the residentially zoned property, which under city zoning code and federal law is allowed to have religious facilities built on it and therefore does not need to be rezoned.</div>
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The mosque would still have to meet all building codes and other regulations, he added.</div>
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“So far, I’ve had one phone call, and that’s the main interaction I’ve had with the community on it. I have heard from other council members that at least one other has had at least one phone call,” Henderson said. “It’s an understandable concern — as the gentleman who talked to me said, he bought his property and it had residential behind it, so the worst he expected was a house built behind him. Now that there’s a parking lot that’s going to be built behind him, that’s a surprise and a completely understandable surprise.”</div>
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Mitchell Hyre, who resides in the Village At Pine Mountain neighborhood near the proposed mosque site, shares Henderson’s concern. He says his goal is to see the formation of a committee of nearby property owners that would meet with the developer and the city to come up with buffers that would be visually pleasing to those in neighboring residents and would muffle any sound from the mosque.</div>
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“These people bought their properties with the understanding that all around it was residential, and we were told by Realtors that nobody (else) could build there, and ‘you’ll be fine,’ and it’s all wooded, and there are deer and rabbits and foxes,” Hyre said, who says his opposition is not based on religion.</div>
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“If they do their due diligence, and we don’t have to look at it, and we don’t have to hear it, that we don’t have lights shining in our bedroom window and that we don’t listen to garbage trucks at 2:30 in the morning servicing their dumpster, that’s about all we can do,” Hyre said, “and that’s all that I want.”</div>
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The city of Kennesaw, Henderson adds, has received “zero complaints“ since Masjid Suffah began operating, adding that he would vote in favor of the mosque’s plans if they met all city codes.</div>
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“It comes down to there is no difference in a mosque or a Baptist church or anybody else, and I have to protect their rights, just like I protect the rights of any other citizen in Kennesaw,” he said. “If they are following our zoning ordinances, and they are building to code, then there is absolutely no reason that I can ever see saying ‘no’ to it.”</div>
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Amid Masjid Suffah’s efforts to open in the strip mall in 2014, protesters attended numerous council meetings about the mosque, carrying signs saying “Ban Islam” and “No Mosque,” and voiced concerns about the mosque spreading Shariah law.</div>
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“People are not aware of what or who Muslims are, and so I think that’s the main issue that we’re dealing with,” said Jafari, adding that a church operates on the same street, likely less than a mile down the road.</div>
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We are here to establish our connection with God, and that’s by the teachings that have been taught to us in the Quran and ultimately by the example of our prophet, Muhammad,” Jafari said. “Our responsibility as Muslims is to make sure that our neighbors are always good in terms of our relationship with them. This is just our gesture to them and our way (to say), ‘Hey, we’re open to helping you guys understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.’”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ramadhan Kareem! May Allah SWT grant us all the ability to strengthen our connection with Him in this blessed month and ultimately make it a means for us becoming better Muslims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note Isha Salaah will be at 9:55 followed by the Taraweeh Prayer.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #606060;">Also, please keep referring back to the Masjid Prayer Time Display for accurate Salaah times at</span><span style="color: #606060;"> </span><a href="http://display.masjidsuffah.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">display.masjidsuffah.com</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #606060;">Jazakumullahu Khaira</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u>Ramadan begins around the Muslim world</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">WEST COBB — At sunrise, the congregants at Masjid al-Furqan, a mosque and Islamic Center in west Cobb, will mark the first day of the holy month of Ramadan along with Muslims from around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This will be the second full Ramadan at the mosque, which opened in 2017 partway through Ramadan off Barrett Parkway south of Dallas Highway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the time since, the congregation has doubled, growing from about 150 to over 300, said board member Amjad Taufique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“It’s really grown up since a lot of people have moved in,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The outside of the mosque will also be growing soon, the board recently received permits to build a picnic pavilion for outdoor activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Taufique said they are also conducting a search for a new imam, a Muslim worship leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“We are passing the word around, seeing what is available, who is interested,” he said. “We’ve had a couple of candidates come out, but they decided not to because of family obligations and things like that, so we’re still in search for an imam and youth director.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Though the prayers recited at the mosque are the same as they have been since the religion was founded in the 7th century, modern technology has become part of Islam as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">After the evening prayers, some worshippers stayed behind to read the Quran, the holy book of Islam, on their cellphones. Taufique said he has an app that tells him when to pray based on the time zone in his GPS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“My phone is set up for evening and morning prayers, and it actually calls the call to prayer aloud. … So even if I’m not here at the mosque, I may be somewhere and I know.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Congregant Yusuf Khan said his phone has an app that uses GPS to show the direction of the city of Mecca, toward which Muslims are directed to pray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“For example, if I’m at Starbucks or something, and prayer comes in, I need to pray, it’s not like I know which direction Mecca is to pray, so you look it up on your phone, you use your app, it tells you where to look, and you pray in that direction,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“So if you ever see a Muslim guy, like, praying to a car, he’s not praying to the car,” he added with a laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">RamadanIslam is the world’s second-largest religion, with about 1.8 billion practitioners. Its followers believe in one God, called Allah in Arabic, and that Muhammad is God’s prophet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The holy book of Islam is the Quran, which Muslims believe is the verbatim word of God that was handed down to Muhammad. It’s in the pages of the Quran where Muslims are directed to observe Ramadan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Within the Quran, the revelation was there that made it mandatory on the believers to fast in the month of Ramadan,” Taufique said. “In the words of the Quran, it says fasting has been prescribed upon you as it was prescribed on those before you, so you may attain piety.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Taufique and some of the mosque’s younger members met with the MDJ last week to talk about Ramadan and how Muslims in the United States mark it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">During Ramadan, the day begins with a morning meal called Suhur, which is eaten before the sun comes up. Once day breaks, there is no eating or drinking until the sun comes back down. The fast is broken in the evening with a meal called Iftar, often held at the local mosque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Suhur dishes depend on personal taste and run the gamut from fruit and water to eggs and pancakes, according to the congregants. And while traditions vary in Muslim communities around the world, it is common to break one’s fast with dates and water, because that is what the prophet Muhammad did. After that, you’ll find Muslims breaking their fast with every type of food imaginable, said congregant Yusuf Khan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“If you come here any given night during Ramadan, you’ll find food from like Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Africa, you name it,” he said. “Someone here is going to bring that food for that night. … You’re going to find food from every country. It’s always going to be a surprise.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But many of the worshippers said they learned the hard way not to overeat during Iftar, especially because it is immediately followed by prayers which involve repeatedly standing, kneeling and prostrating, something that is not fun on a full stomach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“You can only eat a normal meal, you just can’t handle more than that,” Taufique said. “As a kid, I remember being so sick at night, being like ‘Oh my God, why did I do that?’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">American lifeMany of the younger members of the congregation said participating in Ramadan while attending school in America felt a little different at first, but people ended up getting used to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“When I was younger, in elementary school, I would go to the library during Ramadan, so I got to read a lot, which was fun,” said Taufique’s daughter, Saleha Taufique. “And then once, when I had P.E. in high school, and I was ready to run, I said ‘Okay, I’m going to do this,’ and then my dad called the school and was like ‘She’s fasting, she’s not allowed to run.’ So I just spent that whole month on the bench, just hung out and became really good friends with the coach.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Children are not forced to fast during Ramadan, nor are the elderly, the sick or women who are pregnant. Taufique said he sent a lunch box to school with his daughter in case she needed to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“The teacher would know that her lunchbox was there, so if it was not manageable for her to fast, she realized she can’t continue anymore, no problem, she could go out and eat it. … You build up that environment in that house so they want to compete with their siblings, they want to compete with other kids, like ‘Oh, I fasted three days this Ramadan,’ ‘Oh, I fasted thirteen days,’” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Someone who is unable to fast during Ramadan can also make up for it by fasting during another day of the year or by feeding somebody who would otherwise be unable to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The members of the congregation agreed that the first few days of Ramadan are always the hardest, but after that your body gets used to it. They said that while some people lose weight during Ramadan, it’s not at all uncommon to gain weight during the month from a combination of a slower metabolism and eating big meals right before bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since Ramadan follows the Islamic calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, it occurs on different dates each year, about 11 days apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Khan joked that fasting in the summer months with its long days is tougher than fasting in winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“When I was little, we were fasting in the wintertime, so the fast was like 14 hours, versus now, like 18,” he said with a laugh. “Summer is a different story altogether.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">According to Islamic scholars, Muslims living near the north pole where nights can get extremely long are allowed to celebrate Ramadan based on the schedule of the nearest town with a normal day/night cycle, or based on the times in Medina, Saudi Arabia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Closer to GodAccording to Islamic tradition, during Ramadan, the gates to Heaven are open and the devil is locked in chains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“The devil is locked up, he’s chained up,” said worshipper Aqsa Adnan. “So throughout the rest of the year, he’s constantly trying to whisper something to you to make you do something you shouldn’t do, making you try to move away from the straight path. So Ramadan is that one chance where all you have is yourself and God.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Congregant Areej Mukhtar said that means good deeds done during Ramadan are better, and if you sin during Ramadan you can’t blame anyone but yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Anything you do that’s bad or sinful, that’s on you,” she said. “Shaitan, the devil, is gone. So it’s all on you. You get more self-conscious, like I can’t do anything bad. You’ll restrict yourself from watching TV, restrict yourself from going onto social media out of your own will. It’s really rewarding in a way.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Masjid al-Furqan’s members all said for them, Ramadan is about more than just eating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Part of fasting, at least for me, is stopping anything like, so TV, moving away from that, from reading just random books. I reread ‘Harry Potter’ all the time, so listening to lectures, reading the Quran more becomes a goal. When you’re not eating, you’re consciously thinking of other ways to spend your time,” said Saleha Taufique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Khan said for many, Ramadan is a time to reflect on your behavior and, if necessary, get back on the right track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“If you’re someone who’s not a regular, coming to the mosque a lot, you’ll find a lot of people who are in that same boat actually at the mosque in Ramadan, and you’ll have conversations and end up kind of realizing it on your own, like, hey maybe we shouldn’t go smoke tonight, maybe we should do the night prayer then go home and hang out,” he said. “You do things that are better for you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ramadan concludes with a festival called Eid al-Fitr, a day when Muslims are forbidden from fasting. Instead, believers hold large feasts in mosques or in homes with family to thank God for a good Ramadan. It is not uncommon for parents to give gifts or money to their children on Eid al-Fitr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“For me, it’s like when a bunch of aunties invite you over and say ‘Come eat food with us!’” Mukhtar said. “It’s the one day of the whole month where you can eat and have fun with your family. You ask everybody how their Ramadan was, what they did during their Ramadan. It’s just a day to be happy and celebrate doing good in our lives.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year, Eid-al-fitr begins the evening of June 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Amjad Taufique said all are welcome to come visit the mosque’ especially during Ramadan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“We welcome people to visit us. We are very open. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances around the world, with places of worship being attacked, whether a synagogue, a church or a mosque, we’re seeing that more and more, there are locks on the door where you cannot get in unless you have the codes. Before that, we had it open throughout the day, it used to be open. But if somebody calls us, lets us know they’re on the way, we’re happy to let them in, show them around. Especially during the month of Ramadan, we’ll be more open, during dinner time, stuff like that. People are more than welcome to join us.”</span></div>
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So with the passage of time I have posted less and less. The site '<i><span style="color: blue;">may</span></i>' now and then have another post but it is pretty much off my radar scope these days. So take a look, you might find something of interest, I see that several folks come back repeatedly and are probably disappointed to find nothing new here. Thanks for looking in -</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><u>WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY AT THE KENNESAW MOSQUE?</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Don’t forget! Tonight after Maghrib Salaah (5:31pm) we are hosting our Monthly Family program on the life of one the greatest companions of the Prophet ﷺ, Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Program will begin promptly after Maghrib Salaah so that we may be done by Isha Salaah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Once again, we want to make sure the youth and adults are involved throughout the event, therefore please be sure to encourage your children to bring their electronic WiFi capable devices for the very interactive kuhoot game with prizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Dinner will be served for both adults and children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Please keep in mind this is a family event, therefore to best benefit as a family, encourage all family members to come and participate for full benefit and a lasting experience for our homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">May Allah ﷻ accept from us all and give us a life like that of Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه in Deen and Taqwa!</span><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><u>COBB COUNTY County commission OKs Mableton mosque </u></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A mosque, <b>Masjid Qubaa</b> - The Islamic Center of Mableton, and a retail or office establishment for the mosque were approved 5-0 Aug. 21 by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Instead of the present appliance liquidation business, new uses by the Islamic Center - also called Mableton Center, Inc. - will occupy 214 acres at 6145 Mableton Parkway on the east side and north of Community Drive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The mosque’s commercial tenant will occupy the front 1,000-square-foot building on Mableton Parkway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Accommodating 100 to 110 people, the mosque will occupy the rear building of 3,625 square feet and be used 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Undeveloped property behind the mosque may be developed with a playground or more parking spaces, according to an Aug. 6 letter from applicant attorney Lisa S. Morchower of Berman Fink Van Horn in Atlanta to Cobb County Zoning Division Manager John P. Pederson.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The buildings are flanked by two gas stations and Fanatics Sports Bar and Grill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jimmy D. Hester is the title holder, and Charles Woodard is the representative for Mableton Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>CAROLYN CUNNINGHAM FOR THE AJC</b></span><br />
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Info on the Kennesaw Mosque is available at:<br />
<a href="http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888;">http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Info on the suit the Kennesaw Mosque filed against the City is at:<br />
<a href="http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888;">http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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The Newton County (Ga) mosque and cemetary issue is at:<br />
<a href="http://almaadalislami.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888;">http://almaadalislami.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Radical Mosques in America (1 is in Ga)<br />
<a href="https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/radical-mosques-in-america-is-there-one-near-you/" style="color: #888888;">https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/radical-mosques-in-america-is-there-one-near-you/</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><u>Suffa Dawat Center</u></span> is a non profit organization established to provide a place of worship to the Muslims residing in and around Kennesaw. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Established in January 2015, it is a fairly young mosque constantly seeking to improve itself to meet the requirements of its community and provide a center for worship.</span></b></div>
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<b>Web site: </b><b><a href="http://suffadawatcenter.weebly.com/">http://suffadawatcenter.weebly.com</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #232327;">Ramadan in 2018 will begin in the evening of </span><span style="color: red;"><b>May 16</b></span><span style="color: #232327;">, and will end in the evening of </span><b><span style="color: red;">June 14</span></b><span style="color: #232327;">.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">23rd April 2018,</span><span class="article__timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: lowercase;"> 4:40 pm</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated: 23rd April 2018,</span><span class="article__timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: lowercase;"> 4:42 pm the </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">When is Ramadan 2018?</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #232327;">Ramadan in 2018 will begin in the evening of </span><span style="color: red;"><b>May 15</b></span><span style="color: #232327;">, and will end in the evening of </span><b><span style="color: red;">June 14</span></b><span style="color: #232327;">.</span></div>
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The beginning and end are determined by the lunar Islamic calendar.</div>
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Hilal, the crescent, is usually a day or more after the astronomical new moon.</div>
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The "night of power" or "night of decree" is considered the holiest night of the year, as Muslims believe the first revelation of the Quran was sent down to Muhammad on this night.</div>
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It is thought to have occurred on an odd-numbered night during the last 10 days of Ramadan - the 21, 23, 25, 27 or 29th.</div>
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The holiday of Eid as-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the next lunar month.</div>
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<u>What happens during Ramadan?</u></h2>
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The word Ramadan comes from the Arabic root ramiḍa or ar-ramaḍ, which means scorching heat or dryness.</div>
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Fasting is obligatory for adult Muslims, except those who are suffering from an illness, travelling, are elderly, pregnant, breastfeeding, diabetic, chronically ill or menstruating.</div>
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Muslims also engage in increased prayer and charity during Ramadan.</div>
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Ramadan is also a month where Muslims try to practice increased self-discipline.</div>
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Ramadan is seen as a time of spiritual reflection, improvement and increased devotion and worship.</div>
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Muslims are expected to put more effort into following the teachings of Islam and this includes fasting - which teaches people how to be more self-disciplined and have empathy for those less fortunate.</div>
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The pre-dawn meal before the fast is called the suhur, while the meal at sunset that breaks the fast is the iftar.</div>
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In addition to abstaining from eating and drinking, Muslims also increase restraint, such as abstaining from sexual relations.</div>
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The act of fasting is said to cleanse the soul by freeing it from worldly activities, in addition to abolition of past sins.</div>
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Dates usually break the fast at sundown, as is tradition.</div>
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After that the usual practice is to adjourn for prayer and then the main meal is served.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>3/25/18</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The current mosque at 2750 Jiles Road is the owner of the 3.62 acre property at 6045 Pine Mountain Road, also in Kennesaw. This oddly shaped property was long abandoned and sold off by the estate of the deceased Mary Estelle Holcomb </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">(Parcil ID: 20016601430)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It was initially purchased by Kashif Rashid Rana and then donated to the mosque as the potential home of a one million dollar proposed mosque, details further down this site.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u><a href="https://rluipa.robinsoncoleblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/01/Suffa_Dawat_Center_v._Kennesaw.pdf">https://rluipa.robinsoncoleblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/01/Suffa_Dawat_Center_v._Kennesaw.pdf</a></u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><i>(above direct link to the 29 page Civil Suit)</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><u><br style="color: #333333;" /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.masjidsuffah.com/">http://www.masjidsuffah.com/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KennesawMasjid">https://www.facebook.com/KennesawMasjid </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.masjidsuffah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fundraising-Flyer.pdf"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">http://www.masjidsuffah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fundraising-Flyer.pdf</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://masjidsuffah.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Admissions-Form-2015.pdf">http://masjidsuffah.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Admissions-Form-2015.pdf<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.salatomatic.com/spc/Kennesaw/Masjid-Suffah/kdhDmNaEzy">https://www.salatomatic.com/spc/Kennesaw/Masjid-Suffah/kdhDmNaEzy</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.coursehero.com/file/18376865/Islam/">https://www.coursehero.com/file/18376865/Islam/</a></span></span><br />
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<b style="line-height: 22.5px;">You can always go take a look at another blog about a Georgia Mosque (Newton County and Covington) </b><span style="color: #606060; font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="line-height: 22.5px;"><b><a href="http://almaadalislami.blogspot.com/">http://almaadalislami.blogspot.com/</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">RULES FOR THE MOSQUE</span></u></b></span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> (from a Canadian Mosque: </span><a href="https://www.al-islam.org/articles/rules-masjid-mosque" style="color: #771100; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-decoration: none;">https://www.al-islam.org/articles/rules-masjid-mosque</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">)</span></span><br />
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Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre is a multipurpose complex consisting of a Mosque, Imamabargha, Gymnasium, Ghusl Rooms, Seniors’ Rooms, Nursery and Children’s Rooms, Offices as well as Madrasah and Elementary School. This 55,000 sq. ft. facility, built at a cost of about Cdn. $12 million, meets the needs, present and future, of Muslim community that is growing, dynamic and visionary.</div>
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The conception, planning, development and building of the Centre took ten long years and involved untiring dedication of many members of the Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia and in particular the members of Multipurpose Complex Taskforce. Through the Grace of Allah (swt) and generosity of donors locally and worldwide, the entire cost of building of the centre is now fully paid up!</div>
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The Centre has been named after the great lady Sayyida Fatimah az-Zahraa (sa), the beloved daughter of Prophet Muhammad (S). Zahraa means radiant. It is the hope of the community leaders and visionaries that the teachings, practices and values of Islam as taught in the Holy Qur’an and illustrated by the Holy Prophet (S) and his Ahlul Bayt (as) would brightly beam from this Centre for many years to come.</div>
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Each and every structure at Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre is unique, but Masjid Az-Zahraa stands out as the most aesthetic piece of architecture. The beautiful mosque built in Islamic tradition and architecture has a green dome similar to the Prophet’s mosque in Medina, two minarets based on Imam Ali al-Ridha’s (as) mausoleum in Mashhad and Islamic Moorish design on the outside of the Mihrab. The internal of the Mihrab keeps the attention of the worshippers focused to the Almighty on account of relevant Qur’anic verses and calligraphy that manifests Divine unity.</div>
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On the day of Eid al-Fitr 1425 (November 14, 2004) the mosque with a ground floor of 5,000 sq. ft. and mezzanine floor of 2,500 sq. ft. accommodated over 1000 worshippers. It was truly an amazing scene to see mu’mineen from various background and ethnicity standing shoulder to shoulder and praying in unison <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Allahu Akbar</em> (God is the Greatest). In addition to wide stairs, the mezzanine floor can be accessed through a small elevator for the elderly and handicapped. A small room at the back of the mezzanine accommodates mothers with small children.</div>
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The tall paneled entrance doors, the wide and spacious foyers and corridors with sitting benches make the facility all the more welcoming and pleasant. It has come in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hadith</em>that it is recommended to have <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">wudhu</em> (ablution) place at the entrance of a mosque. Masjid Az-Zahraa has two Wudhu facilities at the entrance of gents and ladies that can cater over 20 people at a time.</div>
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The inside of the dome with 12 arched windows signifying our Ithna Ashari (Twelver) faith are decorated with Islamic calligraphy that is simply superb and glowing. The panel of the 12 stained windows beautifully designed contains the names of fourteen Ma’sumeen. The word <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Allah Jalla Jalaalahu</em> (God, Sublime is His Majesty) is repeated throughout the inside top end of the dome. The internal base of the dome has ninety nine beautiful names of Allah, all decorated but easy to read. The fourteen windowpanes of the mosque also contains the names and titles of the infalliable 14 Ma`sumeen (as).</div>
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A small portion of the mosque has been separated from the main section, enabling it to remain open 24 hours a day for the convenience of travelers, visitors and other mu’mineen that cannot make it to the regular scheduled congregation prayers.</div>
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Almighty Allah (swt) says in the Holy Qur'an:</div>
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إِنَّمَا يَعْمُرُ مَسَاجِدَ اللَّهِ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ وَلَمْ يَخْشَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ ۖ فَعَسَىٰ أُولَٰئِكَ أَنْ يَكُونُوا مِنَ الْمُهْتَدِينَ</div>
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”Only those shall maintain Allah's mosques, who believe in Allah and Last Day, and establish prayer and give zakat, and fear no one except Allah. They, hopefully, will be among the guided.” (9:18)</div>
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Only Muslims can enter the mosque. Mu'minin are requested to ensure that all cleaning, repairs and maintenance inside the mosque be done by Muslims only. When inviting non-Muslims to the Centre for marriage and funeral ceremonies or during any other occasion, care should be taken to accommodate them outside the mosque such as in the Imambargha, adjacent rooms and foyers.</div>
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Why should we visit mosques often?</div>
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Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) has advised:</div>
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عَلَيْكُمْ بِإِتْـيَانِ الْمَسَاجِدِ فَإِنَّهَا بُيُوتَ اللٌّهِ فِي الأَرْضِ.</div>
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”You are advised to visit mosques (often) for these are God's houses on the earth.”</div>
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Benefits of saying congregation prayers in mosques</div>
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Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) said that the Noble Prophet (S) has said:</div>
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وَمَنْ مَشى إِلـى مَسْجِدٍ يَطْلُبُ فِيهِ الْجَمَاعَةَ كَانَ لَهُ بِكُلِّ خُطْوَةٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ حَسَنَةٍ، وَيَرْفَعُ لَهُ مِنَ الدَّرَجَاتِ مِثْلُ ذٌلِكَ، فَإِنْ مَاتَ وَهُوَ عَلى ذٌلِكَ وَكَلَ اللٌّهُ بِهِ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفِ مَلَكٍ يَعُوْدُونَهُ فِي قَبْرِهِ، وَيُبَشِّرُوْنَهُ وَيُؤَنِّسُونَهُ، فِي وَحْدَتِهِ، وَيَسْـتَغْفِرُونَ لَهُ حَتّى يُبْعَثَ.</div>
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”He who walks to the mosque seeking the congregational (prayers), for every step he takes he receives seventy thousand good deeds, and his rank is raised accordingly. This status continues even after his death, for Allah appoints seventy thousand angels who would pray for him in his grave, give him good tidings, accompany him in his loneliness and plead for forgiveness for him till he his raised (from the grave).”</div>
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Preparing to leave for the mosque</div>
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1. When leaving your home, work or business, go toward the mosque with eagerness and enthusiasm for you would be meeting fellow believers who have come to worship Allah.</div>
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2. Demonstrate your eagerness by wearing perfumed, good and neat clothes.</div>
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3. Ensure that your body and clothes are all pure and clean (tahir/pak). Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) says: ”One who goes to the mosque with (physical & spiritual) purity, Allah purifies this person from sins and includes him/her from the pilgrims of the mosque.”</div>
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4. Do not carry any unclean & impure items (najasat) in your pockets to the mosque.</div>
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5. If you have eaten garlic, onions, etc… do not go to the mosque, until the odor from your mouth has vanished.</div>
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6. It is forbidden for the one who is in the state of janabat and haydh to enter the mosque. Only after having performed the required ghusl (major ablution) can such a person enter the mosque. Sisters who are in the state istihadha can enter the mosque for prayers or otherwise. (For detailed rules on these please refer to books on Islamic Laws)</div>
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Entering the Center and then heading towards the mosque</div>
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1. At the first entrance of the Center, you would find the following verses from the Holy Qur'an. Read these with understanding and enter the precincts under Divine safety:</div>
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ. أُدْخُلُوهَا بِسَلاَمٍ آمِنِينَ، فَاللٌّهُ خَيْرٌ حَافِظًا وَهُوَ أَرْحَمُ الرٌّاحِمِينَ</div>
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“Bismilaahir Rahmaanir Raheem. Udkhuloohaa bi-salaamin aaminin; fallaahu khayrun haafizaa, wa-huwa arhamur raahimeen.”</div>
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”In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Enter it with peace and safety; for Allah is the best of protectors and the most merciful of the merciful ones.” (Holy Qur'an 15:46 & 12:64)</div>
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2. Use the right foot to enter the Center, reciting the following Du'a:</div>
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أَللٌّهُمَّ افْتَحْ لَنَا بَابَ رَحْمَتِكَ وَ اجْعَلْنَا مِنْ عُمَّارِ مَسَاجِدِكَ، جَلَّ ثَنَاءُ وَجْهِكَ.</div>
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“Allaahumma'ftah lanaa baaba rahmatika waj`alnaa min 'ammari masaajidika, jalla thanaa'u wajhik.”</div>
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”O Allah, open for us the doors of Your mercy and make us amongst those who frequent Your mosques. Exalted is the praise of Your countenance.”</div>
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Have a quick look at the poster containing Rules and Etiquette of Mosque hanging near the entrance of the mosque and inside the mosque.</div>
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3. Please switch off or mute your cell/mobile phone. Experience has shown that phone rings irritate other worshippers and can sometime take away the concentration of worshippers including that of the imam.</div>
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Entering and being inside the Mosque</div>
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1. At the door of the mosque, recite this Du'a taught by Imam Hasan b. 'Ali al-Mujtaba (as):</div>
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إلٌـهِـي ضَيْفُكَ بِـبَابِكَ، يَا مُحْسِنُ قَدْ أَتَاكَ الْمُـسِيـئُ فَتَجَاوَزْ عَنْ قَبِيـحِ مَا عِنْدِي بِجَـمِيلِ مَا عِنْدَكَ، يَـا كَـرِيـمَ.</div>
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“Ilaahi dhayfuka bibaabik, yaa Muhsinu qad ataakal-musee', fatajaawaz `an qabihi maa `indee bijameeli maa `indak, yaa kareem.”</div>
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”My God, Your guest is at Your door. O the All-Beneficent, the sinner has come to You; so overlook what is ugly with me with that which is beautiful with You. O the All-Generous.”</div>
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2. Enter the mosque with humility and submissiveness for it is the house of Allah (swt) frequented by angels and believers.</div>
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3. It is forbidden to bring any inherently impure (najisul-`ayn) things into a mosque. Therefore, clothes containing blood, urine, semen, flesh of a dog or swine, etc. cannot be worn or carried when entering a mosque.</div>
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5. Greet the believers and angels with the best of greetings and a smiling face. Please note that if the believers are engaged in the Salat, it is not advisable to greet them.</div>
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6. Recite two rak'at prayer as a gesture of greeting and respect to the mosque.</div>
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(S). While in the mosque keep your focus on none other than Allah (swt) , as He says in the Qur'an:</div>
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وَأَنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلَا تَدْعُوا مَعَ اللَّهِ أَحَدًا</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">”Surely the mosques are for Allah (alone); so do not pray to anyone with Allah.” (72:18)</span></em></div>
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8. Keep the mosque clean, tidy and fragranced.</div>
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9. Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) has recommended that we say many prayers and recite many supplications in mosques:</div>
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فَأَكْثِرُوا فِيهَا مِنَ الصَّلاَةِ وَالدُّعَاءِ.</div>
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10. Sending Salawat on Prophet Muhammad (S) and his family (as) is the most effective supplication that the Muslims are blessed with.</div>
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11. Spend as much time in the mosque as possible as the Noble Prophet (S) said to Abu Dharr: ”As long as you are seated in the mosque, for every breath you take Allah will give you a rank in the paradise and the angels are praying for you.”</div>
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12. It is recommended to say various prayers at different places or sites within the mosque. Therefore, for e.g., say Maghrib Salat at one place, nafilah of Maghrib at another place, and 'Isha prayers at yet another place. Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) has stated: ”Say your prayers in the mosques at different sites, for every site would witness for the person saying prayers on the Day of Resurrection.”</div>
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13. Ensure not to contaminate any part of the mosque, for it is forbidden (haram) to do so and goes against the sanctity of the mosque.</div>
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14. If any part of the mosque is contaminated it is obligatory for all those present and those who have the knowledge of it to immediately purify it (make it tahir/pak).</div>
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15. When bringing young children who cannot discern right from the wrong, into the mosque, ensure that they are under your continuous care - both for the respect of the mosque and for those present in it.</div>
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16. When inside the mosque, you are a guest of Allah (swt) . Additionally, you are in the presence of angels and believers. Beautify the environment with continuous remembrance of Allah (swt) and pleading for His forgiveness (Istighfar).</div>
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17. Avoid worldly talks, discussion and recitations (e.g. non-religious poetry) while you are inside the mosque.</div>
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18. Carrying out business transactions in the mosque is abhorrent (makruh).</div>
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19. Playing board or computer games, hide and seek, or any sport in the mosque is abhorrent (makruh).</div>
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20. Raising one's voice for reciting or talking in the mosque is detestable. Of course reciting adhan, du'a, etc. for congregation is exempt from this rule.</div>
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21. When you take an item for use, (e.g. Holy Qur'an, book of Du'a, prostrating tablet (turbah/mohr) take care of it and return it to its original place (e.g. book case).</div>
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22. Do not remove or take away anything belonging to the mosque. If you need to borrow an item temporarily then ensure that you have sought permission from the trustee or a keeper of the Center.</div>
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When exiting the mosque, step out with the left foot and recite the following supplication:</div>
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بِسْمِ اللٌّهِ. أَللٌّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلـى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ فَاغْفِرْ ذُنُوبِي وَافْتَحْ أَبْوٌابَ فَضْلِكَ.</div>
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“Bismillah. Allaahumma Salli 'Ala Muhammadin wa Aali Muhammad. Fagh-fir dhunoobe waf-tah abwaaba fadhlik.”</div>
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”(I exit) In the Name of Allah. O' Allah! send Your prayers upon Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad and forgive my sins and open the doors of Your grace (to me).”</div>
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“All praise belongs solely to Allah, the Lord of the Universe.”</div>
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قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صَلَّى للٌّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ): أَتَانِي جَبْرَئِيلُ مَعَ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ بَعْدَ صَلاَةِ الظُّهْرِ. فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ رَبِّكَ يُقْرِؤُكَ السَّلاَمَ وَ أَهْدَى إِلَيْكَ هَدِيَّتَيْنِ لَمْ يُهْدِهِمَا إِلَى نَبِيٍّ قَبْلَكَ. قُلْتُ: مَا الْهَدِيَّتَانِ؟ قَالَ: الْوَتْرُ ثَلاَثُ رَكَعَاتٍ وَ الصَّلاَةُ لْخَمْسُ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ. قُلْتُ: يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ مَا لِأُمَّتِي فِي 9لْجَمَاعَةِ؟ قَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ: إِذٌا كَانَا اثْنَيْنِ كَتَبَ للٌّهُ لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ مِائَةً وَ خَمْسِينَ صَلاَةً. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا ثَلاَثَةً كَتَبَٱ للٌّهُ لِكُلٍّ مِنْهُمْ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ سِتَّمِائَةِ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا أَرْبَعَةً كَتَبَ للٌّهُ لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ أَلْفاً وَ مِائَتَيْ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا خَمْسَةً كَتَبَ للٌّهُ لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ أَلْفَيْنِ وَ أَرْبَعَمِائَةِ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا سِتَّةً كَتَبَ لٌّهُ لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ بِكُلِّ</div>
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رَكْعَةٍ أَرْبَعَةَ آلاَفٍ وَ ثَمَانَمِائَةِ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا سَبْعَةً كَتَب للٌّهُ لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ تِسْعَةَ آلاَفٍ وَ سِتَّمِائَةِ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا ثَمَانِيَةً كَتَبَ للٌّهُ تَعَالَى لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفاً وَ مِائَتَيْ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا تِسْعَةً كَتَبَ للٌّهُ تَعَالَى لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ سِتَّةً وَ ثَلاَثِينَ أَلْفاً وَ أَرْبَعَمِائَةِ صَلاٌةٍ. وَ إِذٌا كَانُوا عَشَرَةً كَتَبَ للٌّهُ تَعَالَى لِكُلِّ وٌاحِدٍ بِكُلِّ رَكْعَةٍ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفاً وَ أَلْفَيْنِ وَ ثَمَانَمِائَةِ صَلاٌةٍ. إِنْ زَادُوا عَلَى الْعَشَرَةِ فَلَوْ صَارَتْ بِحَارُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الأََرْضِ كُلُّهَا مِدَاداً وَ الأََشْجَارُ أَقْلاَماً وَ الثَّقَلاَنِ مَعَ الْمَلاَئِكَةِ كُتَّاباً لَمْ يَقْدِرُوا أَنْ يَكْتُبُوا ثَوَابَ رَكْعَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ! يَا مُحَمَّدُ تَكْبِيرَةٌ يُدْرِكُهَا الْمُؤْمِنُ مَعَ الإِِمَامِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ سِتِّينَ أَلْفَ حَجَّةٍ وَ عُمْرَةٍ وَ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَ مَا فِيهَا سَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ مَرَّةٍ وَ رَكْعَةٌ يُصَلِّيهَا الْمُؤْمِنُ مَعَ الإِِمَامِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ مِائَةِ أَلْفِ دِينَارٍ يَتَصَدَّقُ بِهَا عَلَى الْمَسَاكِينِ وَ سَجْدَةٌ يَسْجُدُهَا الْمُؤْمِنُ مَعَ الإِِمَامِ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عِتْقِ مِائَةِ رَقَبَةٍ.</div>
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The Prophet of Allah (blessings of Allah be upon him and his family) has narrated that Jibra`il once came to him after Salat al-Zuhr accompanied by 70,000 Angels and said, 'O Muhammad, your Lord conveys greetings to you and has granted you two gifts which he has not granted to any Prophet before you.'</div>
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I said (to Jibra`il), “What are these two gifts?”</div>
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He said: “The Witr Salat which has three Raka'at (i.e. two Rak'at prayer of Shaf'a and one Rak'ah prayer of Witr said late after the 8 Rak'at Nafilah of night) and the saying of five (daily) prayers in congregation (Jama'at).”</div>
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I said, “O Jibra`il, what reward is there for my Ummah in saying the prayers in congregation (Jama'at)?”</div>
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· When there are two people (saying congregational prayers), then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 150 Salat;</div>
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· When there are three people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 600 Salat;</div>
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· When there are four people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 1,200 Salat;</div>
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· When there are five people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 2,400 Salat;</div>
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· When there are six people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 4,800 Salat;</div>
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· When there are seven people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 9,600 Salat;</div>
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·When there are eight people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 19,200 Salat;</div>
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· When there are nine people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 37,400 Salat;</div>
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· When there are ten people, then Allah will record the reward for each Rak'at is being equal to 72,800 Salat.</div>
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[O Muhammad] If there were more than ten people attending the congregational prayer then if all the rivers in the Heavens and the Earth were to become ink, and all the trees (are used as) pens and all of the Jinn, human beings along with the Angels together were to write the reward of one Rak'at prayed, they would not be able to do so.</div>
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O' Muhammad! The (first) Takbir (i.e. Takbiratul Ihram) that the believer performs with the imam (of the congregational prayer) is better than performing 60,000 Hajj and 'Umrah and better than 70,000 times what is in this world. For ever Rak'at that a believer prays in congregation is better than 100,000 dinar (gold coins) given in charity to the poor. For ever Sajdah that the believer performs in the congregational prayer is better than freeing 1,000 slaves.'“</div>
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Ref: Mustadrak al-Wasa'il, Volume 1, Page 487</div>
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References:</div>
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The Holy Qur`an</div>
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Islamic Laws, Ayatullah Sayyid 'Ali al-Husaini as-Sistani</div>
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Mizan al-Hikmah, vol.4, Muhammad al-Ray Shahri</div>
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Al-'Urwah al-Wuthqa, vol. 2, Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Kazim al-Yazdi</div>
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<a href="https://www.al-islam.org/articles/rules-masjid-mosque#noble-qur%E2%80%99-and-hadith-salat" id="noble-qur’-and-hadith-salat" name="noble-qur’-and-hadith-salat" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">THE NOBLE QUR’AN AND HADITH ON SALAT</span></a></h2>
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قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ 1</div>
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الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ 2</div>
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“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Certainly, the faithful have attained salvation -those who have humbled themselves in their prayers.” (23:1-2)</span></em></div>
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Imam Husayn b. 'Ali (as) described the prayer of his grandfather, the Messenger of Allah (S): “He used to weep until he filled the place with tears on account of his fear for Allah, the Mighty and the Sublime. (This was his state) though, he (i.e. the Messenger) had done nothing wrong.”</div>
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The right of your ritual prayer (Salat) is that you know that it is an arrival before God and that through it you are standing before Him. When you know that, then you will stand in the station of him who is lowly, vile, beseeching, trembling, hopeful, fearful, and abased, and you will magnify Him who is before you through stillness and dignity. You will approach the prayer with your heart and you will perform it according to its bounds and its rights. (Risalah al-Huquq, Imam 'Ali Zaynul 'Abidin (as))</div>
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Each and every prayer should be the final prayer</div>
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The Noble Prophet (S): “When you say your Salat, say it in a way that it the final prayer of your life.”</div>
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<a href="https://www.al-islam.org/articles/rules-masjid-mosque#successful-are-those-who-say-their-prayers-humbleness" id="successful-are-those-who-say-their-prayers-humbleness" name="successful-are-those-who-say-their-prayers-humbleness" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Successful are those who say their prayers with humbleness</span></a></h3>
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<a href="https://www.al-islam.org/articles/rules-masjid-mosque#nothing-takes-priority-once-prayer-time-approaches" id="nothing-takes-priority-once-prayer-time-approaches" name="nothing-takes-priority-once-prayer-time-approaches" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">NOTHING TAKES PRIORITY ONCE THE PRAYER TIME APPROACHES</span></a></h2>
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'Aisha, the wife of Prophet Muhammad (S) says: “The Messenger would talk with us and we would talk with him. When the time of salat approached, he would be as if he no longer knows us and nor did we know him (i.e. all family socialization would end and he would focus his attention to worshipping his Lord).”</div>
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<a href="https://www.al-islam.org/articles/rules-masjid-mosque#do-not-take-your-prayers-lightly" id="do-not-take-your-prayers-lightly" name="do-not-take-your-prayers-lightly" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none 0px !important; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">DO NOT TAKE YOUR PRAYERS LIGHTLY</span></a></h2>
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The Noble Prophet (S) has said, “One who takes his prayer lightly is not from my followers; he/she would not return to me at the pool (of Kawthar) - surely, by Allah he would not (meet me).”</div>
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”There are three kinds of people, even if they were Muslims, would not be greeted, given daughters in marriage and taken as partners in business. These are those who abandon their prayers, consume alcohol and indulge in gambling.”</div>
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فِي جَنَّاتٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ 40</div>
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عَنِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ 41</div>
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مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ 42</div>
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قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ 43</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">”In the Gardens they will ask one another, about the guilty: 'What led you into Hell Fire?' They will say: 'We were not of those who prayed.'” (74: 40 -43)</span></em></div>
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“And I have no success in my endeavours except with the help of Allah.”</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span>Not much is going on with the Kennesaw Mosque issue but here is an interesting article about a NY Mosque. If you are not interested just skip down until you come to the Ga. Mosque information.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J.</span></b> —<b> Mohammad Ali Chaudry, a retired financial officer, has lived in this prosperous town for 40 years. It is where he raised his three children and where he served as mayor, and before that, as a member of the school board. It was also where Mr. Chaudry, an observant Muslim, always wanted to pray.</b></div>
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But Mr. Chaudry and some 70 fellow Muslims have been stymied for years in their quest to build a mosque on a four-acre plot of land in Basking Ridge, a genteel community here that is as proud of its old oak trees as its old homes. A year ago, after 39 public hearings in which local officials and residents picked apart every aspect of the proposed mosque, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/nyregion/muslims-sue-over-denial-of-bid-to-build-mosque-in-new-jersey-suburb.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;">planning board rejected the proposal</a>, citing issues like storm water management and pedestrian safety in the parking lot.</div>
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Now, the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/j/justice_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about the U.S. Justice Department.">federal Justice Department</a> has filed a lawsuit against Bernards Township, arguing that its decision violated federal law and discriminated against the applicants purely because of their Muslim faith. The complaint, filed last month, follows a lawsuit brought by Mr. Chaudry’s Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, which has been subjected to anti-Muslim fliers and social media posts and even vandalism.</div>
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During the protracted application process, someone stomped on the group’s mailbox and later superimposed “ISIS” over the society’s initials on the mailbox. “This was unprecedented,” said Mr. Chaudry, the society’s president, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Tufts University and teaches a course at Rutgers University on Islam. “No other house of worship in the township’s history had ever been treated the way we were.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem;">Across the country, more and more towns have used local zoning laws as barriers to new mosques and Islamic schools, underscoring what civil rights advocates say is a growing wave of intolerance that has been amplified by the victory of President-elect</span><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem;"> </span><a class="meta-per" href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #326891; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; text-decoration: none;" title="More articles about Donald J. Trump.">Donald J. Trump</a><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem;">. In response, the federal government has been increasingly turning to the courts, using a law passed unanimously by Congress in 2000 that prohibits municipalities from discriminating against religions in land-use decisions or treating religious groups differently than secular ones.</span></div>
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While the law, with the arcane name <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-act" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Justice Department description of law">Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act</a>, was intended to protect all religious faiths, 11 of the last 13 cases brought by the Justice Department — including three in the last month — have involved Muslims.</div>
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“The law, by its very nature, deals with particularly vulnerable populations,” said Mark Goldfeder, a senior lecturer at Emory University’s School of Law and a senior fellow at the university’s <a href="http://cslr.law.emory.edu/" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="official site">Center for the Study of Law and Religion</a>. “It’s so easy for towns to hide discrimination behind layers of land-use procedure.”</div>
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But Muslim advocates and experts on religious freedom worry that Mr. Trump’s impending inauguration leaves the future of the powerful religious freedom law in doubt. The man the president-elect has nominated to lead the Justice Department, Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-attorney-general.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;">endorsed Mr. Trump’s call</a> for a temporary ban on immigration from Muslim countries.</div>
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As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Mr. Sessions might be less sympathetic to pursuing investigations involving the rights of Muslims. There are now 13 open land-use investigations under the law, though a spokesman for the department declined to say how many of those involved mosques.</div>
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Ross K. Baker, a distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers who has studied the federal law, said it was “entirely possible” Mr. Sessions could choose to dial back on the investigations. “It is within the province of the attorney general-designate to decide whether to proceed with a lawsuit,” he said.</div>
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Another recent case brought by the department involved a proposed mosque in Virginia. The lawsuit argued that Culpeper County violated the religious land-use law in denying a sewage permit application. The complaint noted that since 1992, the county had considered 26 applications and never before denied such a permit to either a commercial or religious group.</div>
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In a speech this month at a Virginia mosque, Loretta E. Lynch, United States the attorney general, talked about the department’s response to a surge in hate crimes, highlighting enforcement of the land-use law. “Members of the Civil Rights Division have heard repeatedly about more overt discrimination in both the tone and framing of objections to planned religious institutions, especially mosques and Islamic centers,” said Ms. Lynch, who sent a letter to state and local officials on Thursday reminding them of the law and their obligation to respect religious freedom.</div>
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In the case of Bernards Township, the Islamic Society bought land that was in a zone that permitted a house of worship. Raising money from various sources, Mr. Chaudry oversaw the purchase of four acres, aware that the zoning code required at least three acres for a house of worship.</div>
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The society hired an architect who took pains to design a mosque that would blend in with the neighborhood, where a fire station stands across the street from the site. The 4,400-square-foot mosque, the size of a large house, would forgo the traditional dome and would include minarets that mimic the chimneys on neighboring houses.</div>
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“The mosque proposal met with vociferous public opposition,” the Justice Department wrote in its recent complaint. “Fliers, social media and websites denounced the mosque and were filled with anti-Muslim bigotry and references to terrorism and the 9/11 attacks.”</div>
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The federal lawsuit concluded that the planning board had used different requirements in denying the society’s application than it “had in evaluating previous applications.”</div>
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The language in the society’s own lawsuit was more blunt: “What should have been a simple board approval for a permitted use devolved into a Kafkaesque process that spanned an unprecedented four years.”</div>
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Nearly three dozen religious, legal and civil rights groups have supported the society’s lawsuit by signing amicus briefs, said the society’s lawyer, Adeel A. Mangi, of the firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.</div>
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Bernards Township officials deny that the applicants’ faith played any role in their decision. The mayor, Carol Bianchi, declined to respond to the allegations. But <a href="http://www.bernards.org/administration/Document/2016/DOJ2016-11-18.pdf" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="Bernards Township response to Justice Department lawsuit">a statement</a> by the township after the Justice Department filed its lawsuit asserted that the planning board’s denial was based on “legitimate land-use and safety concerns which plaintiffs refused, and to this day, refuse to address.”</div>
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The township’s most forceful response was reserved for the Justice Department, which it accused of a conflict of interest because one of its investigators served on the same board at Drew University’s Center for Religious and Cultural Conflicts as Mr. Chaudry. The township also claimed that the department’s communication with the Islamic Society before bringing the federal complaint suggested an “inappropriate collusion.”</div>
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The United States attorney for New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, a Democrat, looked into the township’s allegations and declared them baseless.</div>
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In July, the Justice Department released a report on its enforcement of the federal law since 2010, which detailed the growing proportion of cases involving mosques. It also found that while 84 percent of non-Muslim investigations were resolved without a lawsuit, only a fifth of cases involving Islamic institutions were similarly resolved.</div>
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In Bernards Township, much of the initial resistance to the proposed mosque centered on parking. According to the federal complaint, the local ordinance required 50 parking spaces for houses of worship based on a 3-to-1 standard ratio, or an average of three people arriving in one car. But a traffic engineer enlisted by opponents of the mosque recommended 107 spaces.</div>
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The planning board insisted the mosque meet that goal, which, in turn, raised new issues, like visual impacts and storm water runoff. The society’s complaint stated that applicants “dutifully revised their site plan and brought back professionals to testify time and again, only to find that the board had generated yet more requirements.” Mr. Fishman said the township “kept moving the goal posts.”</div>
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For Mr. Chaudry and other members of the society, the lack of a mosque has made worshiping difficult. The nearest mosque is 25 minutes away. Members have rented a local community center for Friday prayers, lugging in prayer rugs and audio equipment. But the center is unavailable in the summer so they pray in a public park. And the absence of a mosque has prevented the society from attracting a full-time imam.</div>
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During public hearings, some residents made anti-Muslim remarks, but town officials mostly restricted their comments to land-use questions. But in a trove of emails unearthed by the Justice Department investigation, and recently shown to the Islamic Society, the same officials shared their personal views of Muslims.</div>
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In one email, a member of the township committee, John Malay, wrote, “As a religion, Islam owes its source of influence to a tradition from Day 1 of forced conversion through violent means.”</div>
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In an email chain, members of the committee and planning board discussed ways to exclude Mr. Chaudry from a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in honor of town residents who died in the terrorist attack. “Let’s make it happen without that fool,” John Carpenter, a township committee member, said.</div>
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Mr. Chaudry is active in local groups like the Rotary Club and statewide committees promoting interfaith understanding. In 2013, Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, appointed him to the New Jersey Commission on National and Community Service. He also serves on the state attorney general’s Outreach Committee for the Muslim Community and the Interfaith Advisory Council of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.</div>
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Outside the Dutch colonial on Church Street that serves as the society’s offices and where, members hope, a new mosque will one day stand, signs of patriotism abound. A sign amid American flags of various sizes proclaims, “Proud to Be an American.”</div>
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“We feel everybody should know that we are American,” Mr. Chaudry said.</div>
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we have programs going on at the Masjid through which we can benefit as families
and ultimately as a community at large.<br /><br />In light of this, we had a
program titled Stories of the Prophets last week on Friday, which insha'Allah we
will continue next week.<br /><br />Insha'Allah this week we will be having a
Family Night on Saturday Dec. 17th after Isha Salaah (7:15).<br /><br />It is very
important that we as a community are as close as the <em>sahabah</em> of Medina
and Mecca, but to develop such love and connection, we must make an effort to
show up to events like these to firstly be involved in a congregational Ibadah
by listening to the words of Allah SWT and his Messenger SAW, and secondly by
meeting one another on such occasion.<br /><br />All the brothers and sisters are
requested to come and participate and encourage others to attend.<br /><br />Dinner
will be served so be sure to join us.<br /><br />Jazakumullahu
Khaira<br /><br />Wassalaam.<br /><br /><em>Copyright © 2016 Suffah Masjid, All rights
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Assalamu Alaikum <em id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480975381975_3214">Warahmatullahi
wabarakatuhi,</em><br />
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With the great mercy of Allah SWT we are fortunate
enough to announce that we will be continuing the Daily Maktab System under our
latest Imam, Mufti Mohammad Jafari.<br />
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The Prophet SAW has said, "The
best among you is he who learns the Qur'an and teaches it to
others".<br />
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As Muslims it is very important that we learn the Qur'an and
recite it everyday as this is our daily remedy for any problems we might face,
and if not for the sake of remedy, it is definitely an avenue for us to get
close to Allah SWT.<br />
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Our children are the future of American Muslims,
but to be that they need to know the teachings of Islam, the etiquette and
manners of the Prophet SAW, and the practical lifestyle of how to be Muslims
while living in America.<br />
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There is so much our children need to
learn that maybe we might have been void of as children, but Allah SWT is giving
us an opportunity to fill that void if not for ourselves, then at least for our
next generation.<br />
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Our Maktab Classes will be comprised of 2
parts:<br />
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1. Qur'an: In which the student will learn to read the Qur'an
along with the rules of tajweed, and also memorized at least the last 10
surahs.<br />
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2. Islamic Studies: In which the student will learn the
following subjects: Fiqh, Hadith, Tareekh (History), Aqaaid (Islamic beliefs),
Seerah (life of the Prophet SAW), and more.<br />
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Classes will be 3 days a
week from 5:30pm to 7:00pm<br />
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Classes are open for both boys and girls
from the ages of 7 and up.<br />
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Please take this opportunity to enroll
your child and equip him or her with the understanding of Islam.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Anonymous asked Kennesaw City Councilman Jim Sebastian:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Mosque Question</u></b></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Q) As I recall the approval for the Suffa Dawat Mosque/Worship Center was phrased as a ‘variance’ for 24 months of usage. We are approaching the end of that period now.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did they in fact get a 2 year variance or did they just get total approval with no specified time limit?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: blue;">Jim Sebastian • reply</span></u><br /><span style="color: #1d2129;">Get the Story about Kennesaw</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In April 2015 , to ensure compliance with all Federal laws, including the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (commonly referred to as RLUIPA) and to bring the City of Kennesaw into compliance with recommendations made by the Department of Justice, the Mayor and Council unanimously amended the Kennesaw Code of Ordinances Appendix A, Chapter 2, Sections 2.02.03 “Table of Land Uses- Residential Districts” and 2.02.04 “Table of Land Uses – Non-Residential Districts.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This conformity was made to allow for Religious Assemblies (defined as a site or facility maintained by a bona fide religious groups) for the primary purposes of religious worship, study, prayer or other religious practices of such religious groups.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Religious assemblies include but are not limited to churches, mosques, synagogues and temples in residential and non-residential districts. As these uses are now allowed, there are no limits on times or durations of use.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">3.62 acres, 200 spot parking</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Masjid Suffah, 6045 Pine Mountain Road, to replace the strip mall mosque at 2750 Jiles Rd, Kennesaw. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>The property with a FMV of $134,400 was donated to the Mosque by Kashif</b><b style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> Rashid Rana, Kennesaw, and on 4/6/16 a demolition permit </b><b style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">was issued</b><b style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> for the existing abandoned shell of a house. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The property belonged to Mary Estelle Holcombe and was sold by her estate to Mr. Rana (Parcil ID: 20016601430).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Kashif Rashid Rana, 678 485-9261</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Naser B. Omer, 770 906-0838</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Nayyer Islam, 404 556-9222</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Mazhar Hussain, 404 483-8077</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Sena Ali, 404 936-7108</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Imam Faizan Wahid, 678 848-1965</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Abdul Kareem Amer</span></span></div>
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<time class="publisheddate wn-time gmt dst-switch" datetime="2015-07-20T20:15:51Z" style="clear: both; display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.5em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;">Monday, July 20th 2015, 4:15 pm EDT</time><time class="updateddate wn-time gmt dst-switch" datetime="2015-08-17T20:15:07Z" style="clear: both; display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.5em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;">Monday, August 17th 2015, 4:15 pm EDT</time><br />
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<b>A battle might be brewing in Cobb County.</b></div>
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<b>In December 2014, there was <a href="http://www.cbs46.com/story/27628152/kennesaw-city-council-to-vote-again-on-mosque" style="color: #0782c1;" target="_blank">controversy over a mosque in Kennesaw moving to a temporary location</a> in a strip mall on Jiles Road. Now there are plans to move it about a half-mile down the road to Pine Mountain Road, and it's not sitting well with some neighbors.</b></div>
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<b>The mosque would go in a wooded area surrounded by houses and an office park. None of the neighbors knew about the plans and they seem to have varying views.</b></div>
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<b>"They've been very friendly," said Teresa Barnes, who manages Candy Man Inc. She says that so far, her eight-month neighbors, Masjid Suffah, have been as sweet as a piece of chocolate she was packing up during our interview. </b></div>
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<b>"Yes, you have your radical Muslims, but these people seem very nice [and] don't cause any problems," Barnes said.</b></div>
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<b>But some in the community haven't always been cordial. Last winter, the mosque was at the center of controversy when it wanted to move into a strip mall. After the city council's original vote of no, Muslim residents threatened to sue the city for violating their first amendment right to freedom of religion. Later, council members reconsidered their vote and decided to approve the temporary location.</b></div>
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<b>Now, there are plans to build a permanent mosque at a new location on Pine Mountain Road and there's a fund raising page setup to raise thousands of dollars to build the mosque near a residential community.</b></div>
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<b>"I just don't want any kind of hate crime coming in," said neighbor Rickey Cole. "I think property value could go down because of that, and traffic could be a big issue because we already have horrible traffic on 41."</b></div>
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<b>Jacqueline Waldon's property would also be in the shadow of the planned mosque. She's lived in Kennesaw for six decades and says, like husband's tomato and watermelon garden, the mosque would be a part of good growth for the neighborhood.</b></div>
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<b>"Our church is outgrowing itself and we need a new place and I wouldn't want my neighbors to be offended by us building a church there, so I have no problem with them building the mosque there," Waldon said.</b></div>
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<b>After a request for comment, the president of the mosque said he's talking with the board of directors and would get back to CBS46, but has yet to call us back.</b></div>
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<b>They mayor of Kennesaw told CBS46 that so far, the city hasn't gotten any applications or zoning requests.</b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">ان شاء الله.</span> Madrasah classes for boys and girls at Suffah masjid will commence from Saturday the 20th August. </strong></div>
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<strong>Registration is this Saturday on the 13th between 10 am and 12 noon. </strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ‘new’ <b>Suffa Dawat Mosque</b> to be built at 6045 Pine Mountain Road. The 3.62 acres (161,000 sq ft) has set aside 200 spaces for parking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Mosque land was donated to them by Mr. Kashif Rashid Rana of Kennesaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Since then they have expanded their rental to another next door unit which is suppose to be used for the women, bringing the total rented space to 3,300 sq ft.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Photos taken in July 2016 on the “28th Night of Ramadan” at 11 p.m. show only the men’s side, which is the original 2 units (2200 sq ft) and show at least 106 people, considering the remaining area not shown, probably there are 130 (+/-) plus an unknown number of women in the remaining unit.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>While the County Fire Dept had initially established the maximum number allowed under their regulations at an unrealistic 315 for the original 2 units, you can see that the facility is well above the actual physical capacity of the rooms and the parking lot during both Ramadan and their normal main service on Friday afternoons.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The original City variance for use of the property as a Mosque for 24 months still has a few months to run but there is no indication that any other facility is being prepared for the expiration of the approved 24 month usage.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Whether this new million dollar Mosque is ever built, in the proposed configuration or otherwise, it clearly would be impossible for it to be ready for several years. The donations are very minimal, hardly enough to pay the rent on the current location. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The immediate Kennesaw concern is that their Friday service exceeds the available strip mall parking. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Long term concerns are for construction of the new Suffa Dawat Mosque on the land donated to them by Mr. Kashif Rashid Rana of Kennesaw.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Previous dealings with this Mosque have not been satisfactory and have cost the City $18,000, a Federal lawsuit and an international black eye.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>With 5 of the 6 elected City posts now held by newly elected representatives perhaps some clearer thinking will emerge on how to deal with the referenced issues. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remember how it was 'claimed' that their main Friday afternoon service might draw at most 80 people?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 7/8/16 main service totally filled the parking area at this strip mall.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Parking monitors direct members to open spots and several slots are reserved by them for use of shoppers at other mall stores.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s been about a year and a half since the Kennesaw City Council balked at allowing a mosque to open in a strip mall, and since that time, mosque leaders say everything is “going great.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It is so convenient,” said Dr. Nayyer Islam, president of the mosque, the Masjid Suffah of Kennesaw.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It’s a great place for everyone to come together and meet each other. There are some people I didn’t even know were in the area that are coming here now.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In December of 2014, the Kennesaw City Council voted 4-1 to deny a permit that would have allowed worshippers to open a Muslim prayer center in a strip mall on Jiles Road behind a Publix grocery store.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Protestors attended numerous council meetings about the mosque, carrying signs saying “Ban Islam” and “No Mosque,” and voiced concerns about the mosque spreading Shariah law.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After Doug Dillard, the attorney representing mosque members, threatened to sue the council for violating the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, council members reversed their decision and granted a 24-month permit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Former Councilwoman Cris Eaton-Welsh was the only council member to approve the permit in the initial vote. She said she voted to approve the mosque because it was their “constitutional right to be there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The (mosque members) who came to that City Council meeting, they have been members of this community for 20, 30 years,” Eaton-Welsh said “They are your radiologists, your doctors, your dentists … I’m glad they have a safe space to worship. I don’t think it’s any different than a synagogue or chapel.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Former Councilwoman Debra Williams, who initially voted against the mosque, said her opposition was based on the location.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It was going in a retail space that had active businesses, and a worship center takes away from that. We need to put in businesses that complement each other,” she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, Islam said the shopping mall is now thriving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The (shopping) complex where the mosque is located had one or two businesses back then, and as I was promising the city at the time, now the whole complex is flourishing,” Islam said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dream Body Inc, a personal training studio, moved into the strip-mall in May, and owner Seth Carver said that while parking had been an initial concern, business is good and the studio has about 150 sessions per week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“They are very courteous, they come over and put cones in front of our space so that nobody parks in front of our business so that way there’s parking for our clients,” Carver said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before the mosque opened, many Muslims in the area had to travel to other communities to worship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mosque board member Naser Omer, of Kennesaw, said “we were going and coming 10 miles each way, so that’s 20 miles, and some of the prayers are only ten minutes.” He called the mosque a great facility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nayyer Islam’s daughter, 18-year old Maha Islam, said before the mosque opened, her family traveled to Canton to a different Muslim community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It’s so nice having the mosque here. I didn’t know all the Muslims in this area and now I do,” she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another mosque on Barrett Parkway in west Cobb is scheduled to open in about four to six months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Masjid Suffah, which sees about 80 to 100 members on its busiest day, is collecting funds to move to a permanent location behind the Walgreen’s pharmacy and Bank of America on Pine Mountain Road near Cobb Parkway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nayyer Islam said an architect, who is a member of the mosque, has already drawn up the plans for an 8,500-square-foot space with a larger worship area and multi-purpose space for kids to play. The property, which was donated to the mosque by a member, is about 3.5 acres and the new development will include about 200 parking spaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kennesaw resident Eileen Alberstadt, who opposed the mosque’s opening in 2014 citing traffic congestion, said she is still concerned about traffic when the Pine Mountain Road location opens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I live on Pine Mountain and it’s a nightmare to get out of the subdivision,” Alberstadt said. “The traffic will be hell; it’s already hell now.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alberstadt and Williams also said mosque members tried to demolish a house on the Pine Mountain Road property, but did not have the permit and were forced to stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because the project is privately-funded, it is difficult to pinpoint when it will be finished, Nayyer Islam said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If you wrote me a check today, I could start working tomorrow,” he said, laughing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to Nayyer Islam, the property already has the needed zoning and the final architectural designs will be submitted to the city for approval. The estimated cost for the Pine Mountain Road mosque is $1.4 million.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The mosque has a 24-month leasing period for the strip mall location which ends in about nine months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“We told them at the time that this is a temporary thing and our permission is for two years, so we are going to obey our promise,” he said. “We are going to keep striving towards building the other mosque so it becomes a permanent thing where people can go.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nayyer Islam is hopeful to have more funds for the permanent mosque after Ramadan, a religious month for Muslims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and practice self-restraint and self-reflection. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is celebrated as the month Muhammad received the revelations that became the Quran.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each night during the holy month, the Masjid Suffah serves about 150 people with a four-course meal at sunset that is followed by prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Ramadan is about restricting ourselves from what is normally available. We restrict in everything, including lying and cussing,” Nayyer Islam said. “Those things happen from impulse and the purpose of Ramadan is to calm those impulsivities … the training for this month allows us to remember these things in the next 11 months. It trains us on how to be a good citizen.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Food served varies night to night but often includes dates, meats, rice, bread and desserts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It’s a cool thing here because we have different Muslims from a lot of different countries. Everyone signs up to bring in food for Ramadan so we have a lot of different flavors,” said Maha Islam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The end of Ramadan is called Eid and is a time for celebration. People dress up in colorful outfits and donate to the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Humaira Qhan, a member of the mosque who has lived in Kennesaw for 12 years, said. “We give alms to the poor and to the underserved so they can celebrate Eid with us.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year, funds donated to the mosque will be given to the community of Clarkesville, according to Nayyer Islam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also new this year for Eid, the Masjid Suffah gathered with other mosques in the area at Pine Mountain Middle School to pray and celebrate the end of Ramadan.</span><br />
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<b>Mosque v. City of Kennesaw</b> at: <a href="http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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<b>by Meris Lutz October 16, 2015 Special to the MDJ</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: blue;">WEST COBB</span></u></b> — When Amjad Taufique first moved to Cobb from Houston, the entire observant Muslim population of the county could fit in the small office they rented for prayer services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">More than 25 years later, the community is preparing to celebrate the opening of the first mosque constructed in Cobb County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are five mosques already throughout the county, but all of them are in repurposed buildings, said Taufique, an active community leader who owns a repair management company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Named Masjid Al Furqan, the about 45,000-square-foot mosque off Barrett Parkway, not far from the intersection with Dallas Highway, is expected to open early next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The county is growing,” said Taufique. “It’s a good place to live, good for businesses. We’ve got a lot of Muslims who have businesses around here, doctors, we have a lot of them, so that kind of attracts a crowd.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Fadi Ali, a management consultant who moved to Cobb County from Florida with his wife, a surgeon, and children two years ago, recently bought a house near the new mosque in order to attend prayers there.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ali said being able to build a place of worship from the ground up is significant for the Muslim community.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“I think it makes a huge difference,” he said. “This is significant especially for me because I can take my children, my wife, my extended family and show them how we put this window here and that there.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ali also said it was important to him that the mosque be a resource not just for Muslims, but for the entire Cobb community, and talked about offering classes and activities.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>When finished, Al Furqan will occupy a six-acre site that includes two existing houses, one of which will become administrative offices and the other will be available as the residence for the imam, who leads the congregation in prayer. The grounds will be encircled by a landscaped buffer and walking trail, which Taufique said would be open to the public.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The mosque is being built with funds donated by the community and is expected to serve a congregation of up to 300 people. Construction is estimated to cost $1.2 million, Taufique said, adding that the building was designed to blend in with the surrounding neighborhood, with a few nods to Islamic architecture, such as arches in the entranceway.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The property was previously owned by a church and already zoned to allow a religious institution. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">“We are going to stick to the code like nobody ever did,” said Taufique. “We know where we are, we know our position.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Taufique is hoping Al Furqan will be open for services by February or March of next year, and encouraged members of the public who were curious to reach out to arrange a tour.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“We would love for our neighbors to say, ‘Hey I just want to stop by,’” he said.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Construction of the mosque follows on the heels of a heated confrontation in Kennesaw in December that saw protests over a proposed storefront prayer hall in a shopping center. The Kennesaw City Council eventually reversed its vote not to allow the prayer hall after being threatened with legal action.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>By contrast, both Ali and Taufique said they were not aware of any negative responses to the new mosque in west Cobb. In fact, they said, all of the neighbors have been very welcoming.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A handful of people have expressed alarm to the local county commissioner, Bob Weatherford, however.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“You get some that are far out there,” Weatherford said. “I don’t discriminate based on anything as long as it’s legal.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>He went on to say he supported freedom of worship as long as it did not infringe on the rights of others and it was done “peacefully.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“My opinion of that particular religion is that they have a propensity not to be peaceful,” Weatherford said, adding he was speaking in general terms and not about the Muslim community of Cobb County.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ali said he was not concerned about the kind of anti-Muslim sentiment that was on display in Kennesaw last year, where protesters held signs that read “ban Islam” and “Islam wants no peace.” </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">“I believe in our justice system and elected officials,” Ali said.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>As a community leader, Taufique has often found himself in the role of ambassador of his faith, especially since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Several years after the attacks, he recalled reading an article about a young Muslim couple who were interrogated by the FBI after their neighbors reported “suspicious” behavior, which, it turned out, included fixing their washing machine and cooking biryani, a popular South Asian and Middle Eastern rice dish.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“It made me start to think that the neighbors really don’t even know you. They’re just scared (for) no reason, so what can we do to change that?” he asked.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“We said, ‘Hey, we understand maybe you guys are a little concerned about who we are, what we are, so come in and see,’” he said.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Taufique calls the extra efforts made by Muslims to assuage their neighbors’ fears “the price we pay,” and takes it in stride. Since 9/11, he has built strong connections with local Jewish, Christian and other religious leaders and helps organize an annual interfaith Thanksgiving dinner.</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 15.1217679977417px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several of the founding Mosque members are multi Millionaires and could easily afford to build the new Mosque but they didn't get to be multi Millionaires by spending their own money. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Friday mid day service of the <b>Suffa Dawat Mosque</b> attracts far more people than any of the other services and nearly fills the strip mall parking lot.
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the new Kennesaw Mosque, a new one costing $800,000 is coming. </span></b></div>
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<b> This time he is pushing for a Fall opening of his 6-7,000 plot, 13.5 acer Muslim cemetery on Macland Road in Powder Springs and local members of that heavily black community are up in arms about how it was snuck in with no notice to area residents.</b></div>
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<b> Well Kennesaw residents already know that Mr. Amer is a pretty sneaky guy. Perhaps you remember him from the Suffa Dawat Mosque problem in the down market Kennesaw strip mall at 2750 Jiles Road?</b></div>
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<b> Mr Amer is called 'the engineer' and was the self described man behind the new Kennesaw Mosque. He and a few others decided they wanted their own boutique mosque in Kennesaw.</b></div>
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<b> This is the guy who got Kennesaw resident, Mr. Mufti Fakhir Islam, to put in the application for a 24 month waiver of the Kennesaw zoning regulations so a store front Mosque could be put into a down market strip mall behind the Publix store on Cobb Parkway.</b></div>
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<b> Mr. Mufti Fakhir Islam put in writing the bogus Suffa Dawat claim that there were no other Mosques within a 20 mile radius when there are at least 7, one as close as 8 miles away. This claim later got an apology from Mosque attorney Dillard, but you won't likely have heard about the apology as it was given in an (illegally) closed session before the start of the Dec. 1st regular Council meeting.</b></div>
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<b> Even their lawyer was appalled by the lies told by his Muslim clients. He wasn't all that sorry though as he threatened to sue the City for at least $1,000,000 for enforcing the City zoning regulations. They did in fact later sue and got $18,000. see: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsuffadawatsuit.blogspot.com%2F&h=qAQFUGIfLAQHQoaf8uAyn-OCupI4ewitC3tR4EvfKQghvXQ&enc=AZMSipb_mJLnrAQrwKYGsz8YU_CVB0CoCQ6eFAW_7Iz5W-Qt_XTp7_aQdNF9N4EBAYkqkwOQLJnDG59diTdxm3ktFMKwYgOi0YUq-eqVZK-eUhNFsrw2BubF8Vxr-Cjv67BAHlQ0stzRtabGeeerzGcSzNSd5ihJKJHWEz6GEI8FakxjB9dvtJVh54hgABHKZ8GHoYlEGhIZg34Rw33qvbZ0&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/</a> and<a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsuffadawa.blogspot.com%2F&h=CAQGJc9XVAQHrehCJT_gyrACyBByPOjk0jG6CXyUAKIq6uQ&enc=AZOUaSEgzNyeP9eDDPUnKfJP05zsEicsrn7h3JuCV7kYnu8FNRCrPKkA8HtM8Vu5WRsfrxnfyYR3l5ETygnEGcc5BZ5v_-NIRrLeCtZ3Knj1lsEyra85tMfcUUqUSvD1-yflyQOx68uv5BwiIuV-tUYyf5CtR715dy3DJnrqS3o5fkD5fF4AKgDEHNIwKETPbh8CtSaMqWiS9rB2uV76cEZt&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/</a></b></div>
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<b> Let's look a bit closer at Mr. Abdul. Kareem Amer:</b></div>
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<b>He is a multi millionaire. He lives in a gated estate at 2467 Sewell Mill Rd, in Marietta with a Fair Market Value, last year, of $795,000. This residence is just a 2 minute drive from the East Cobb Iislamic Center, which is now behind establishing the new Muslim cemetery on Mackland Road.</b></div>
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<b> Abdul Amer is listed in Cobb County Tax records as having a boat with a FMV (Fair Market Value) of $728,640 and an airplane with a FMV of $66,640 and just in Cobb County the Georgia Secretary of State site says that he owns 4 companies:</b></div>
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<b>A&R ENGINEERING INC.,</b></div>
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<b><br />LILY ESTATES, LLC, </b></div>
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<b><br />ROBINSON ESTATES, LLC </b></div>
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<b><br />THE SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE, LLC.,</b></div>
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<b>an 11 unit strip mall at 2639 Hickory Grove Rd, Acworth, Ga. 30101, FMV of $2,074,900.</b></div>
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<b> Just over 2 years ago Amer was butting heads with Kennesaw for his boutique mosque, today he is spear heading the 7,000 burial sites in his Powder Springs Muslim cemetery.</b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: blue;">What will he be up to next year?</span></u></b></div>
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<b> That snowball has already starting to roll downhill for Kennesaw with a proposed $1,000,000 mosque on an oddly shaped 3.62 acer plot (161,000 sq ft) at 6045 Pine Mountain Road, which is near North Cobb Parkway and is about half-a-mile away from the Kennesaw Commons shopping center where the Suffa Dawat mosque is now.</b></div>
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<b> This heavily wooded property recently sold for $95,000, with it going from the estate of Mary Estelle Holcombe, who had owned it and its 6 room 1,484 sq ft, dilapidated ranch style house (built in 1900), to the new owner Kashif Rashid Rana of Kennesaw. (Parcel ID is 20027902450).</b></div>
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<b> It was in turn donated to the Suffa Dawat Mosque for its future location.</b></div>
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<b> Neighbors of this property, directly abutting the new Mosque, will be some of the owners at The Village at Pine Mountain, with 17 of their homes affected and the Cedar Creek Professional Center at Pine Mountain and Cobb Pkwy.</b></div>
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<b> When Amer is finished with his cemetery project Kennesaw will be seeing him again.</b></div>
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<b>Details: <a href="http://www.newsradio1067.com/2016/07/13/cobb-co-homeowners-protest-muslim-cemetery/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.newsradio1067.com/…/cobb-co-homeowners-protest-…/</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Plans by: A and R Engineering, Inc, 2160 Kingston Ct, Marietta, 30068. Contact Person: Naser Omer. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>This is one of at least 4 firms owned by Abdul Kareem Amer of Marietta.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Men's Prayer Hall, 1311 sq ft, Maximum Occupancy 187</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Women's Prayer Hall, 468 sq ft, Max Occupancy 67</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>See the below construction drawings at: </b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">The two suites the Kennesaw mosque occupies now are in Kennesaw Commons, a shopping center on Jiles Road near where it intersects North Cobb Parkway.</span></b><br />
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<b>After about seven months at a temporary location in a Kennesaw shopping center, worshipers of the Suffa Duwat Center want to move.</b></div>
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<b>Naser Omer, a leader at the mosque, and others spent about a month at the end of 2014 battling the Kennesaw City Council to get permission to use space in a shopping center off Jiles Road to hold their prayer services.</b></div>
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<b>The council initially denied the permit, but reversed its decision when threatened with legal action.</b></div>
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<b>The permit to use the shopping center lasts until December 2016, but Omer said there are plans underway to find a permanent space.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b><b>“We are just thinking that the permit is on a temporary basis and we definitely want to move to permanent place,” Omer said.</b></div>
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<b>The plans are in the early stages. Omer said mosque representatives have not purchased any land or raised any money yet.</b></div>
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<b>However, Omer said a new mosque could be built two years from now.</b></div>
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<b>“We are looking at a location on Pine Mountain Road. It’s 3.5 acres,” Omer said.</b></div>
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<b>Omer said he has a goal to raise $800,000 in the next two years, but he doesn’t have a plan for how big the mosque will be.</b></div>
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<b>The proposed new location is at 6045 Pine Mountain Road, near North Cobb Parkway. That property is about half-a-mile away from the Kennesaw Commons shopping center where the mosque is now.</b></div>
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<b>Omer said he believes the mosque has been a good neighbor to other businesses in the shopping center. </b><b style="font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">“There’s no controversy here. Our neighbors are happy. We’re happy,” Omer said.</b></div>
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<b>Right now, the mosque regularly welcomes about 80 people at prayer times, which happen five times a day, but he expects that to grow to 150 people two years from now.</b></div>
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<b>Mosque representatives will not have to get approval from the City Council to build a mosque at the Pine Mountain Road location, said Darryl Simmons, planning and zoning director for the city.</b></div>
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<b>“They would meet with city staff to review what the design of the building is ... and if it meets all of our standards then we review it and approve it,” Simmons said.</b></div>
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<b>Only if the property needed to be rezoned to build the mosque would it require approval from City Council, Simmons said.</b></div>
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<b>The 3.5 acre lot on Pine Mountain Road is zoned to allow religious centers, Simmons said. The land is owned by Mary Estelle Holcombe and was assessed to be worth $45,800 this year, according to the Cobb County Tax Assessor’s Office. Omer said his organization does not yet have it under contract.</b></div>
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<b>Mayor Mark Mathews said while the city has not confirmed the move, the city is willing to help. </b><b style="font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">“I’ve heard the rumors, but as of today the city has not received any factual information or plans from anyone regarding the mosque. The permit they received was for 24 months and they told us at that time that they would be looking for a permanent location. We will assist them in any way possible if they ask, just as we would any other organization or business,” Mathews said.</b></div>
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<b>Kennesaw resident Eileen Alberstadt, who attended the city meetings and public hearings about the mosque in December when it was approved for the shopping center, said she always expected its members would find a permanent location.</b></div>
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<b>“The mosque is covered by the (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act), which means the federal government has already approved them to exist a</b><b>nywhere they choose, even if that means our local government has to change our local zoning,” Alberstadt said.</b></div>
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<b>“It really doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of this; our Department of Justice has already forced our mayor and council to accept their demands, so no one has any say on this type issue because the DOJ has spoken.”</b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><u>I believe the report is incorrect in a number of respects:</u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">2) The 3.62 acres may not meet requirements for enough land to build a relegious structure (ie: 5 acres), (Church, Mosque etc)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="color: #333333;">The recently controversial <b><u>Suffa Dawat Mosque</u></b> (aka: Masjid Suffah of Kennesaw), is now located in temporary quarters with 3 rental units at a down market strip mall <b>Kennesaw Commons</b>, at 2750 Jiles Road. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="color: #333333;">Donations are currently at $2,625, however several members of the Mosque are multi-millionares and the construction costs should be easily met within the 2 year window.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Neighbors with their property directly abutting the new Mosque will be some of the owners at <b>The Village at Pine Mountain</b>, with 17 of their homes affected and the <b>Cedar Creek Professional Center</b> at Pine Mountain and Cobb Pky. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="color: #333333;">Across Pine Mountain Road from the new Mosque are another 12 homes which will be facing the new Mosque. It is anticipated that home prices in the area will drop if the Mosque is built. The Iman for the Mosque is Falzan Wahid and the Director is Mufti Fakhir Islam.</span></div>
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A Kennesaw mosque which stirred up a storm of controversy for months before it was even opened is expanding its presence in its new home.</div>
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The Suffa Dawat Center opened in April after an original decision to deny the mosque a permit was reversed by the Kennesaw City Council. Now, the mosque is a crowded hub of activity on holy days and is <a href="http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/29335959/controversial-mosque-expanding" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3079ed;" target="_blank">expanding to an adjacent suite to give worshippers more breathing room</a>, FOX 5 Atlanta says.</div>
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Mayor Mark Mathews told FOX 5 that the mosque had used all the proper channels and filed the proper permits before beginning the expansion and said that the city was not going to take any action on the expansion.</div>
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Residents who were opposed to the mosque remain opposed to its expansion; one anti-mosque resident said the expansion means more Muslims in the city, which could lead to Islamic laws being put on the books.</div>
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The Kennesaw City Council originally voted down the mosque proposal, but <a href="http://patch.com/georgia/kennesaw/kennesaw-city-council-makes-about-face-approves-mosque-0" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3079ed;">reversed their decision two weeks later</a>. According to WSB-TV, Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews said that city council members had their minds changed by legal arguments from the city’s attorney. Matthews added that the reversal was <a href="http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/kennesaw-city-council-reconsider-mosque-zoning/njSnW/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3079ed;" target="_blank">not spurred by any outside pressure</a> or a complaint filed with the Department of Justice.</div>
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An attorney representing Muslims involved in the project told the AJC in December that the city’s rejection of the mosque whilst accepting a Christian church inside the same shopping center last year <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/kennesaw-may-revisit-mosque-decision/njMLN/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3079ed;" target="_blank">could constitute a violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act</a>.</div>
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Similar violations were alleged during mosque expansion controversies in Alpharetta and Lilburn; in those instances, the cities allowed the mosques to expand, the AJC reports.</div>
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In December 2014, there was <a href="http://www.cbs46.com/story/27628152/kennesaw-city-council-to-vote-again-on-mosque" style="color: #888888;" target="_blank">controversy over a mosque in Kennesaw moving to a temporary location</a> in a strip mall on Jiles Road. Now there are plans to move it about a half-mile down the road to Pine Mountain Road, and it's not sitting well with some neighbors.</div>
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The mosque would go in a wooded area surrounded by houses and an office park. None of the neighbors knew about the plans and they seem to have varying views.</div>
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"They've been very friendly," said Teresa Barnes, who manages Candy Man Inc. She says that so far, her eight-month neighbors, Masjid Suffah, have been as sweet as a piece of chocolate she was packing up during our interview. </div>
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"Yes, you have your radical Muslims, but these people seem very nice [and] don't cause any problems," Barnes said.</div>
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But some in the community haven't always been cordial. Last winter, the mosque was at the center of controversy when it wanted to move into a strip mall. After the city council's original vote of no, Muslim residents threatened to sue the city for violating their first amendment right to freedom of religion. Later, council members reconsidered their vote and decided to approve the temporary location.</div>
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Now, there are plans to build a permanent mosque at a new location on Pine Mountain Road and there's a fund raising page setup to raise thousands of dollars to build the mosque near a residential community.</div>
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"I just don't want any kind of hate crime coming in," said neighbor Rickey Cole. "I think property value could go down because of that, and traffic could be a big issue because we already have horrible traffic on 41."</div>
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Jacqueline Waldon's property would also be in the shadow of the planned mosque. She's lived in Kennesaw for six decades and says, like husband's tomato and watermelon garden, the mosque would be a part of good growth for the neighborhood.</div>
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"Our church is outgrowing itself and we need a new place and I wouldn't want my neighbors to be offended by us building a church there, so I have no problem with them building the mosque there," Waldon said.</div>
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After a request for comment, the president of the mosque said he's talking with the board of directors and would get back to CBS46, but has yet to call us back.</div>
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They mayor of Kennesaw told CBS46 that so far, the city hasn't gotten any applications or zoning requests.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Overwhelming Community Response Warrants Masjid Expansion</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Alhumdulillah, Masjid Suffah has now been open for over two months. In this time, we have been blessed with a positive response from the community. We have an active group of members who join us for the 5 daily salah and nearly <b>125 </b>community members in attendance for Jummah. We have also been able to launch several programs, including summer classes for children, Friday family halaqahs, and a daily hadith halaqah.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The fruits of the community’s efforts have certainly paid off. In fact, last Jummah, Brother Brandon Alexander accepted Islam. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Please help us give him a warm welcome to the community. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Because we have had a greater response from the community than we had initially anticipated, the masjid has begun to undergo construction for expansion. We anticipate completing the expansion before the beginning of Ramadan, which will include larger prayer areas for both the men and women and a proper wudhu area, insha’Allah. Here is a link to the plans layout.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We would like to thank the community for all of their efforts and for helping to make our vision of a vibrant masjid in Kennesaw possible.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We look forward to seeing everyone during the upcoming blessed month of Ramadan!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.7289953231812px; line-height: 17.0119895935059px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Architects Drawings:</b> <a href="http://www.masjidsuffah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Suffa-Dawat-Center-6-03-15.pdf" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;">http://www.masjidsuffah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Suffa-Dawat-Center-6-03-15.pdf</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.38;"><u><span style="color: blue;">aka: Home of the Suffa Dawat Mosque</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>For months the parking area of this downmarket strip mall was in bad shape and had 15% of the parking lot out of service and torn up.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38;">Repeated complaints to the City have finally gotten the strip mall to make some of the needed repairs.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.0675678253174px;">Part of the reason is that the Mosque wants </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> to add another adjoining unit to the 2 they already use, that unit is right at the area now being worked on. </b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="abody" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">KENNESAW - </span><span class="abody" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">SUFFA DUWAT CENTER</span></span></u></b><span class="subtitle" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Once target of outcry, mosque now looking to expand</span></span></span><span class="abody" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">By Hilary Butschek</span></b></span><span class="abody" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: justify;"><i> <a class="email" href="mailto:hbutschek@mdjonline.com" style="color: blue;" target="_blanks">hbutschek@mdjonline.com</a> </i></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Owners who received permission from the Kennesaw City Council in December to open a mosque in a strip mall are planning an expansion.<br /><br />Naser Omer, a supporter of the Suffa Duwat Center mosque, said the center conducts five daily prayer services, and Friday services are the most popular.<br /><br />“That is the only day we have a large congregation as I have been saying from the beginning. We are short of space by just a little bit, so I thought let us expand it so we can accommodate for future needs,” said Omer, a Kennesaw resident.<br /><br />When the applicants applied for a land use permit from the city to use a 2,200-square-foot suite in</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> the Kennesaw Commons shopping center on Jiles Road, it was met by opposition from the City Council and residents.<br /><br />The council first voted to deny the application, but the members that originally voted against it later changed their votes and the original denial was reversed.</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><u>PROTESTS</u></span></b></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><u> </u></span><br /><br />At nearly every council meeting where the mosque was discussed, protesters attended and denounced the Islamic religion.<br /><br />Kennesaw resident Dennis Goddard Sr. was one of the protesters and Friday, he again voiced his concern with the ideas behind the religion and the mosque owners’ intention to expand.<br /><br />“I will always stand opposed to their Shariah law or any law that anyone would use trying to</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> replace our law of the land — the Constitution of the United States of America,” Goddard said.</span></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>‘GOOD</u></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="abody" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><b><u> FEELINGS’</u></b></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />Omer said although there was opposition to the mosque in January when it opened, he has not heard any complaints since.<br /><br />“The commotion we heard in the beginning has died down. It has been very quiet. Nobody has any problem with us. Everybody is happy around us,” Omer said.<br /><br />One resident who previously complained to the City Council about her opposition to the mosque, Eileen Alberstadt of Kennesaw, said she now accepts it.<br /><br />“I guess they have their religious freedom,” Alberstadt said.<br /><br />The issue of religious freedom was raised by Doug Dillard, the</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> attorney representing the mosque owners, when the council first denied the application to use a suite in the shopping center for prayer space.<br /><br />Dillard threatened to sue the city for denying the applicants’ their right to religious freedom, and that’s when the council changed its vote to approve the application.<br /><br />Omer stressed that the community has been supportive and accepting of the mosque since it opened.<br /><br />“I have been checking with our neighbors, and asking that everything is going well. We are coexisting with good feelings all around,” Omer said.</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;">Omer said he has to file a building permit request with the city to expand into another suite,</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> but</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> he</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> has</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> not</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;">filed</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> it</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> yet.</span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"> Darryl Simmons, Kennesaw planning and zoning director, said the mosque would not have to get approval by the City Council to expand. “It would just have to go through the normal business licensing process through the building services department. So they would apply for a building permit to make any changes to bring the building up to code and then get a certificate of occupancy and approval from the fire marshal,” Simmons said.</span></span><span class="abody" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For over 2 months the parking lot of the strip mall hosting the Suffa Dawat Mosque has been torn up and in bad shape. Approx. 15% of the parking spaces are unavailable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 30 day Ramadan celebration </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.6205940246582px;">(6/18-7/17)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is now a week away with the heavy increase in traffic to the Mosque. Additionally, the Mosque has decided to expand to the next unused unit and work was to have started on that Mon. June 8th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The City is again sleeping at the switch and it is about time they woke up and took some action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"the mosque found a solution to Ramadan attendance issue, they rented the suite next door and they will start expansion construction next Monday </i>(June 8th)<i> ( they got all the permits)</i>".</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>See also: </b> <a href="http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Email to: <a href="mailto:jdrobney@kennesaw-ga.gov">jdrobney@kennesaw-ga.gov</a>, <a href="http://dsimmons@kennesaw-ga.gov/">dsimmons@kennesaw-ga.gov </a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Subject: Occupancy allowed for Suffa Dawat Mosque</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I understand that today's </span>(5/29)<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;"><strong>Suffa
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was told by an attendee that there was only 3 spaces remaining, so it
would seem that the Mosque would not reasonably be rated for more than 78. From
my prior visits to the site, before it became a Mosque my guess had been between
70-80, so I was correct in that guess (see photos below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you know I had previously inquired of the City as to the rated occupancy
of this unit and while I did get an initial estimate of <strong>315</strong>
this was so high a number that it was not in any way reasonable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now with next months Ramadan celebration (6/18-7/17) the site will be
crowded for the entire month and I and a lot of others in the community would
like a firm and no-nonsense response as to what the allowable occupancy for this
small area is and also we would like to know if City inspectors will make sure
that this limit is not exceeded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also I note that recently there has been limited parking due to
construction work being done in the lot next to the Mosque, taking out of
service about 15% of the normal parking area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you know many Muslims only attend Mosque now and then, not 5 times a day
or even every day, attendence is mostly on Friday mid-day, but for Ramadan,
those who don't bother for the other 11 months make sure that they attend a
Mosque for those Holy days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would hope that the City will be proactive in this and make any concerns
known to the Mosque leadership, otherwise I anticipate squeals and howls of
indignation from the Mosque if you let it ride until Ramadan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you know mishandling of this Mosque issue has already given Kennesaw
international bad press and cost the local Taxpayers a settlement of $18,000.
This screw up is laid directly at the feet of the City administration; ie:
City Attorney, mayor (small m for this mayor), and the 5 Council members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope the City will get in front of this pending problem and area
residents would like to know what the occupancy limit has been established for
the Mosque and that it will be enforced.</span><br />
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<b>Masjids and Islamic Centers</b></td><td align="center" class="IslamicMain" style="color: #cc0033; font-size: 10pt;" valign="top"><b>City</b></td><td align="center" class="IslamicMain" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top"><b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.islamicfinder.org/miles.php?lang=english">Miles</a> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red;">from 30152</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="300"><a href="http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=93955&lang=english" style="color: purple;">AL Hedaya Islamic Center</a></td><td align="center" class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="200">Marietta</td><td align="center" class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="50">4.3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="300"><a href="http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=17603&lang=english" style="color: purple;">Masjid Al-hedaya</a></td><td align="center" class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="200">Marietta</td><td align="center" class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="50">7.9</td></tr>
<tr><td class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="300"><a href="http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=40717&lang=english" style="color: purple;">Masjid Ibad-ur-rahman</a></td><td align="center" class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="200">Marietta</td><td align="center" class="IslamicData" style="font-size: 10pt;" valign="top" width="50">8.8</td></tr>
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<span style="line-height: 1.38;">The only sign of the </span><b style="line-height: 1.38;">Suffa Dawat Mosque</b><span style="line-height: 1.38;"> at the strip mall are 2 small signs on the 2 doors to the Mosque.</span></div>
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They read: <span style="line-height: 1.38;"> '<i><b>besm ellah alrahman alraheem</b></i>' which translates to: '<b>in the name of God the most gracious
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<b style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u>CITY PAYS SUFFA DAWAT $18,000 TO SETTLE MOSQUE CIVIL SUIT</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally the City has put up the minutes of this meeting and confirms that the storefront Mosque has cost the taxpayers $18K.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the City had not previously approved a relegious usage for another store front they would have been on firm ground in their denial of the usage to the Mosque as the zoning in that center was incorrect for the usage, BUT, once you allow one group a variance you cant then deny the next group t<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">he same usage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The matter was lost before it began and the City Attorney Mr Bentley, Planning and Zoning Admin Mr Simmons, the mayor and Council should have known this before hand. Very sloppy workmanship on the part of all involved at City. They made the whole City look foolish plus costing us 18K of our tax dollars!</span></div>
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A. Pursuant to the provisions of O.C.G.A. §50-14-3, the City Council could, at any time during the meeting, vote to close the public meeting and move to executive session to discuss matters relating to litigation, legal actions and/or communications from the City Attorney; and/or personnel matters; and/or real estate matters.</div>
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Motion by Councilmember Williams to enter into Executive Session as allowed by O.C.G.A. Sec. 50-14-3 for the purpose of discussing legal, motion seconded by Councilmember Sebastian. Vote taken, approved unanimously, 5-0. Motion carried.</div>
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Mayor, City Council, City Attorney Bentley, City Clerk and Assistant City Manager attended Executive Session.</div>
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Councilmember Williams read the Board back into Open Session and directed the Mayor and City Council to execute an affidavit in compliance with O.C.G.A. Sec. 50-14-4, motion seconded by Councilmember Welsh. Vote taken, approved unanimously, 5-0. Motion carried.</div>
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Motion by Councilmember Welsh to authorize the City Attorney to proceed with the settlement of the pending lawsuit by the Suffa Dawat Center, not to exceed $18,000, and authorize the Mayor to execute any related documents, motion seconded by Councilmember Sebastian. Vote taken, approved unanimously, 5-0. Motion carried.</div>
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<span style="color: #141823;">More info on this topic at: </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/">http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<b> 5/15/15</b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>THE SUFFA DAWAT COVERUP CONTINUES</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that when the City of Kennesaw 'settled' the Mosque suit that it paid them $18,000?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You wouldn't know if you went to the City Council Council Minutes for the 2/16/15 meeting for the rather simple reason that there are <b><u>NO PUBLISHED MINUTES</u></b> from this meeting. (<b>update:</b> they are now published) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The publication of Council Minutes stops at 2/2/15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now if you go to the video of the 2/16 meeting and get to minute 25 you find that our mayor, City Attorney Bentley and the 5 stooges on Council go into Executive Session and when they return they ram through a motion to settle the suit and pay Suffa Dawat their $18,000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is at minute 28 and the reading of the motion, vote etc takes all of 30 seconds and if the City Attorney had been able to talk faster it might have been cut down to 15 seconds. In any event the session was so poorly attended that I doubt anyone noticed and of course there is no record in published minutes of the action as they are NOT published.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gee wonder why? Perhaps they thought no one would notice?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe our mayor (small m for mayor), City Atty and Council would rather not let the Kennesaw residents know just how badly they screwed up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep up with this at: <a href="http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/">http://suffadawa.blogspot.com/</a> and <a href="http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/">http://suffadawatsuit.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Date: 5/15/2015 7:57:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From: Harris2016@aol.com </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>dctaylor@kennesaw-ga.gov<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I see that the published City Council Minutes stop at 2/2/15. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The videos are available online but not the published minutes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can you provide me with the minutes of the 2/16/15 Council Meeting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those who don't subscribe, below is the latest MDJ article on this foolishness:</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u>Kennesaw Cleared of Wrongdoing by DoJ </u></span></b><br />
<b>— Hilary Butschek, MDJ 5/15/15</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kennesaw officials were notified this week the city is no longer under investigation by the Department of Justice regarding how the City Council handled a request to build an Islamic prayer center last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Federal Department of Justice launched an investigation into the city's zoning and land use practices Feb. 3, according to a letter from the department to the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The investigation came about a month after a prolonged decision by the City Council on whether to allow a mosque to use space in a retail shopping center for a prayer center. The council voted unanimously to approve the mosque after two months of back and forth and protests from residents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The letter from the Department of Justice, dated May 7, cites the city's effort to change its code ‟to treat religious and non-religious assemblies equally.” The council voted to approve a change to its zoning code at an April 19 meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With that amendment, which broadened the definition of a religious institution in the city's zoning code, the Department of Justice determined the city did not violate the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38;"> This section showcases new businesses and their ribbon cutting, complete with the mayor, a ribbon and a crowd of pleased people associated with the new venture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"> and to see their site you can go to: <a href="http://suffadawatcenter.weebly.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #38761d;">http://suffadawatcenter.weebly.com/</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I understand that the new Mosque is now open for business with the Grand Opening about the first of April with Mayor Mark Mathews and three of the five Kennesaw City Council members and Police Chief Bill Westenberger attending for the ribbon cutting ceremony. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A group of Muslims filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Kennesaw on Tuesday which they say is meant to keep the city council from reversing its Dec. 15 decision to approve the creation of a mosque inside an area strip mall.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doug Dillard, representing the Muslims, says thatthe suit is entirely a protective measure and will be dropped if the city council abides by its latest ruling in support of the mosque, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Kennesaw City Council originally voted down the mosque proposal, but reversed their decision two weeks later. According to WSB-TV, Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews said that city council members had their minds changed by legal arguments from the city’s attorney. Matthews added that the reversal was not spurred by any outside pressure or a complaint filed against the city with the U.S. Justice Department alleging violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, WSB-TV said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, WSB-TV reports that council members who changed their minds said that the city’s new, more inclusive vision statement was a large part of their decision.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kennesaw residents interviewed by WSB-TV following the Dec. 15 reversal believed that the outcry against the earlier decision caused the city council to backtrack to avoid appearing anti-Muslim.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A representative of the Suffa Dawat Center, which will operate in a shopping center on Jiles Road, says that it will take several months to ready the mosque for worship, and adds that only around 60 Muslims will attend Friday services. A much smaller number of Muslims will report to the mosque for daily prayers, the representative added.</span></span><br />
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<b>On Dec 30th Mosque attorneys Dillard and Sellers filed a long winded 29 page complaint "Suffa Dawat Center, Inc v. City of Kennesaw" 1:14-cv-04110-SCJ, and say in part:</b><br />
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Count 1 Violation of Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, (Substantial Burdens),<br />
Count 2 Violation of Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, (Equal Terms and Discrimination)<br />
Count 3 Violation of Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, (Limitations and Exclusions),<br />
Count 4 Violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment to United States Constitution (Free Exercise of Religion)<br />
Count 5 Violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment to United States Constitution (Establishment Clause)<br />
Count 6 Violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment to United States Constitution (Freedom of Speech)<br />
Count 7 Violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment to United States Constitution (Freedom of Assembly)<br />
Count 8 Violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment to United States Constitution (Equal Protection)<br />
Count 9 Violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment to United States Constitution (Substantive and Procedural Due Process)<br />
Count 10 Violation of Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution<br />
Count 11 State Law Claims<br />
Count 12 Mandamus<br />
Count 13 Injunction<br />
Count 14 Attorney's Fees and Costs of Litigation<br />
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<b>Anyone wanting a copy can email me and I will forward it to you via attachment. <a href="mailto:Computer201@hotmail.com">Computer201@hotmail.com</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">use direct link at: <a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/app/briefs/alpharettabrief.pdf">http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/app/briefs/alpharettabrief.pdf</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Also see the Oct 2011 AJC article: "Mosque Dispute Divides Lilburn"</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mr. Islam had some financial problems, initially he filed to go Chapter 13, on 12/6/10 (Case No. 10-96820), but then switched to Chapter a 7 Bankruptcy (Case No. 12-51935) in January of 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>There are 2,200 sq ft in unit #109, however only 1,500 sq ft is available for usage as there are 2 bathrooms and one small office area at the rear of the unit. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The best representation of the available space is found in the above photo, however, you should discount the 20% of the photo on the right side as that entire wall is made up of mirrors and makes the unit look larger than it actually is.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">When looking at these interior photos you need to keep in mind that the south wall/right side of photos is all mirrors. Take a careful look, the molding in the center of the above photo is the limit of the unit, the wall mirrors simply reflect back into the unit making it look larger than it is.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The City inspector has indicated that the potential occupancy could be posted at 315 people, but this is at this point only an <i>estimate</i> and my rump opinion is that you would be over crowding the unit if it was rated as anything in excess of a maximum occupancy of 70-80 people. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">RE: Illegal Action taken by the Kennesaw City Council on Dec. 15, 2014 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">On Dec. 15, 2014, the Kennesaw City Council met and 4 of the 5 Council members attempted to rescind their December 1, 2014, 4-1 vote against a waiver of City of Kennesaw land use regulations* which in their 12/1/14 opinion and the City Council vote of that date, denied the Suffa Dawat's application for a 24 month waiver of City zoning/land use regulations. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The Kennesaw City Council altered their votes AFTER the legal voting was completed by placing on the 12/15/14 City Council Agenda, at Pages 2 and 3, items H through K as noted in the attachment to this complaint*. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I don't believe that this revote can be done under the City of Kennesaw legal charter and bylaws. It seems that the December 1, 2014 vote stands according to the law. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I request that you and your office now take up the matter and if my contention is correct, see that the December 15th effort to rescind the original 12/1/14 vote is ruled to be moot and unenforceable and that the original 12/1/14 Kennesaw City Council vote stands. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Monday’s vote, which was approved with a list of other items on the consent agenda without discussion, allows the applicant for the mosque, Kennesaw resident Mufti Islam, to use a 2,200-square-foot space in a retail shopping center off Jiles Road near Cobb Parkway as a Muslim prayer center.<br /><br />Kashif Islam, the applicant’s brother, said he had no ill feelings toward the protestors.<br /><br />“They have the right to protest,” Kashif Islam said.</b><br /><b>Kashif Islam said he was happy he was given the freedom to practice his religion in the retail center and that the vote ended peacefully.<br /><br />“This is not life and death. We’ve been living in this neighborhood for 15 years. Have you ever seen us getting into trouble? No,” Kashif Islam said.<br /><br />When Mayor Mark Mathews adjourned the meeting, all the council members left the room quickly through a back door. Mathews remained but said none of the other council members would comment on the change of vote.<br /><br />Mathews said Monday’s vote will allow the mosque to operate in the retail center, without stipulations, for 24 months.<br /><br />“It was a fairly unusual experience for us, but I think we’ve taken action,” Mathews said.<br /><br />The permit for the prayer center was denied with a 4-1 vote by the City Council at its Dec. 1 meeting.<br /><br />Councilwoman Cris Eaton-Welsh, the sole vote in favor of the permit at the Dec. 1 meeting, said Monday said she was “glad we can move forward and focus on all the great things happening in Kennesaw.”<br /><br />Councilwoman Debra Williams said in a statement to the MDJ after the meeting all she could say about changing her vote on the issue was “RLUIPA trumps.”<br /><br />Williams is referencing the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a federal law protecting religious institutions from discriminatory zoning laws, which the applicant threatened to use as a basis to sue the city if the permit was denied.<br /><br /><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Protests turn out</span></u><br /><br />Protestors outside City Hall were peaceful but vocal about their opinions on the mosque.<br /><br />Karen Untz, a protestor from Cumming, said she was scared of what would happen to the community now that the mosque was allowed in and predicted it would bring Sharia law with it.<br /><br />“They get a bunch of people in an area, and then they institute Sharia law, and then they beat their wives, et cetera, et cetera. I don’t want to go into all the other terrible things they do,” Untz said. “This is going to start happening all over the state.”<br /><br />The temporary land use permit approved by the council Monday night gives the applicant 24 months to use the space before he will have to reapply, but Untz said she thinks the mosque will never relocate.<br /><br />“Everyone knows there’s no such thing as a temporary mosque. Once they establish a mosque, they keep it. They own it for Allah,” Untz said.<br /><br />Chris Hill, a protestor from McDonough, said he also thinks the mosque will lead to Sharia law in Kennesaw.<br /><br />“Sharia law cannot be allowed to masquerade as a religion,” Hill said.<br /><br />Gloria Williamson, a protestor from Jasper, called Islam is a cult and said it should not be given the freedom religions such as Christianity enjoy.<br /><br />“It’s a cult. It’s not a religion because they teach hate toward Americans,” Williamson said.<br /><br />After the vote, supporters of the mosque were confronted by protestors outside, and one Kennesaw resident, Holly Lacour, apologized for the protestors’ actions. Lacour, who said she lives just down the street from where the new mosque will be located, told the applicants she was sorry some Kennesaw residents had reacted negatively toward them.<br /><br />“It broke my heart to see them treated this way,” Lacour said. “I identify as an atheist, but I support all rights to religious freedom. My neighborhood is very diverse, and that’s how I want my city to be.”<br /><br />Dallas resident Danielle Longamore supports the mosque and said she thinks the protestors represent a minority.<br /><br />“I don’t think that group of people really represents Kennesaw as a whole because of their unwillingness to talk and their stubbornness,” Longamore said.<br /><br />Before the vote, Khalid El-Amin, a supporter of the mosque, said he wasn’t bothered by the protestors. He said he was there for the vote, not the protestors’ show.<br /><br />“They have the same right to protest as we do. And, as long as the right people say ‘yes,’” El-Amin said, nodding toward the council inside City Hall, “all of this doesn’t matter.”<br /><br />Kamaral Hosein, a supporter of the mosque and a Muslim, said he was proud of the council’s decision to change the vote.<br /><br />“This is a victory not only for the mosque and Muslims, but for the whole community as a whole,” Hosein said.</b><br /><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u>Behind the vote</u></span></b><br /><br /><b>The City Council first voted to deny the mosque inside a retail center with a 4-1 vote on Dec. 1, with council members Leonard Church, Tim Killingsworth, Jim Sebastian and Williams voting down the application.<br /><br />Doug Dillard, the applicant’s attorney, threatened the city with a lawsuit after the council’s decision to deny the application. Dillard said he could file a $1 million claim invoking Religious Land Use Act in Cobb Superior Court, according to a letter included in the application presented to the council at its Dec. 1 meeting.<br /><br />After this warning, Mathews said all four council members who voted to deny the mosque individually asked the mayor in private to change their previous vote at the council’s Dec. 10 meeting.<br /><br />Monday night, the council voted 5-0 to approve the four council members’ requests to change their votes. Now, the city’s record will show that the application for the mosque was approved 5-0.</b></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Read more:</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://mdjonline.com/bookmark/26244069/article-Council%20votes%205-0%20to%20allow%20mosque%20in%20Kennesaw#.VI-rIQ2xzww.facebook#ixzz3M1vBp0Dy">http://mdjonline.com/bookmark/26244069/article-Council%20votes%205-0%20to%20allow%20mosque%20in%20Kennesaw#.VI-rIQ2xzww.facebook#ixzz3M1vBp0Dy</a> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;">and also see the</span><span style="color: red; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">WSBTV Video at</span><span style="color: red; line-height: 18px;">: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1755883035"> </a></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/kennesaw-city-council-reconsider-mosque-zoning/njSnW/">http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/kennesaw-city-council-reconsider-mosque-zoning/njSnW/</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b>From the AJC of 12/16/14</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><u>In a reversal, Kennesaw OKs mosque</u></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Storefront worship center wins approval to seek permits</span>.</b><br />
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<b>By Dan Klepal dan.klepal@ajc.com </b><br />
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<b> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Kennesaw City Council reversed itself Monday on the controversial issue of allowing a mosque to operate in a storefront on Jiles Road.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The application for a land-use permit by Suffa Dawat Center, Inc., was rejected Dec. 1 by the Cobb County city when four of the five council members voted against it during a heated meeting at which many members of the public spoke out against the worship center.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Each of those four council members — Leonard Church, Tim Killingsworth, Jim Sebastian and Debra Williams — reversed their votes Monday and approved the land-use permit, which now allows the mosque to seek the necessary permits to operate. Mayor Pro Tem Cris Eaton-Welsh voted in favor of the land-use permit originally.</span></b><br />
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<b> Nayyer Islam, one of the applicants for the mosque, said it will be a few months before the storefront is operational as a worship center. Islam’s attorney, Doug Dillard, said he will likely file a lawsuit in federal court against the vote two weeks ago to protect his client’s right to sue in the event that the council’s re-vote is challenged and reversed.</b><br />
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<b> If Monday’s decision isn’t reversed, Dillard said, he will drop his complaint. Dillard said he is satisfied with the result and appreciates the council members recognizing the vote two weeks ago was not proper.</b><br />
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<b> About a dozen protesters stood outside city hall Monday, holding signs that read: “Ban Islam;” “No Mosque;” and “Cults Have No Rights.”</b><br />
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<b> Samir Malik, who will worship at the center, said all the protesters are invited to the new facility.</b><br />
<b> “We invite them to come out, peacefully,” Malik said “Put those signs down and we’d love to address any questions they have. Talk to us, one on one, in a peaceful setting.</b><br />
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<b> “There’s a very, very small minority that is opposed to us.”</b><br />
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<b> The Kennesaw vote was the latest in a series of metro Atlanta mosque controversies and the most recent to come to the attention of federal authorities. Immediately after the vote to deny the mosque, representatives of the mosque say they spoke to the U.S. Department of Justice about what they see as blatant discrimination in violation of federal law. In recent years, the Justice Department has intervened in similar cases across the country, including decisions by Lilburn and Alpharetta to deny mosque expansions. Under federal pressure, those cities ultimately approved the expansions.</b><br />
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<b> Islam said he expects 50 or 60 worshipers on Fridays; he expects the number will be about 20 or less during the week. Islam said the storefront was attractive to them because its rent was cheap and the location is central to their worshipers.</b><br />
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<b> There will be no limitations — or stipulations — required for the mosque to open. Mayor Mark Mathews said some of the protesters and the media made the land-use issue more controversial that it actually was.</b><br />
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<b> But then he added: “It’s been an emotional issue for every one.”</b><br />
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<b> <span style="color: red;">Mathews said the Suffa Dawat Center will still have to get its plans for the facility approved, and get various permits, a business license and clearance from the fire marshal before becoming operational.</span></b><br />
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<b> “You think the city council is bad, go to a fire marshal, right?” Mathews joked. “At this point, what we’ve provided is the special-land permit that allows them to move on to the next step.”</b><br />
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<b> The re-vote was placed on the meeting’s consent agenda, which means none of the council members explained their change of vote. Mathews said each of the four asked that the issue be placed on consent. He called it an “efficiency” issue.</b><br />
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<b>The 12/12/14 AJC Article:</b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Kennesaw to re-vote on mosque issue</u></b></span><br />
By Dan Klepal <a href="mailto:dan.klepal@ajc.com">dan.klepal@ajc.com</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The application to allow a storefront mosque in a Kennesaw shopping center will be back on the city council’s agenda Monday.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The council had rejected the application by a 4-1 vote on Dec. 1.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> Mayor Mark Mathews issued a statement Wednesday night, after a closed-door work session with the council, that said council members Leonard Church, Tim Killingsworth, Jim Sebastian and Debra Williams want to change their votes and allow the mosque to open.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> Each of the four council members had previously voted against the mosque.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> “...After further consideration and legal review, council members ... independently approached me in my office during a recess following (Wednesday’s) executive session and requested to change their votes cast in the meeting held Dec. 1,” the statement says.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Mathews says there will be no limitations — called stipulations — required for the mosque to open. Kennesaw staff had recommended approval of the request by Suffa Dawat Center, Inc., which wants to open a worship center at 2750 Jiles Road.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> Mathews said in the statement that the council is trying to achieve a mission for Kennesaw to be “an inclusive city with opportunities for all.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> A group calling itself the Steering Committee of the Muslim-Jewish Dialogue released the following statement:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> “We are heartened that the Kennesaw City Council has acted promptly to correct its Dec. 1 vote and has (Wednesday) evening approved the application by local Muslims to establish a place of prayer within the City of Kennesaw. This decision is in keeping with the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all people to practice their religion freely.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> “Respect for the Constitution means equal treatment for all. Living up to this principle is difficult, but it is a precondition for achieving justice and </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>peace in our communities.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> In an email exchange Thursday, Mathews told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that no vote was taken Wednesday night — that the council members’ requests were enough to have the mosque placed on Monday’s agenda.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> “A vote (on whether) to allow them to change their votes will take place Monday,” Mathews wrote to the AJC. “If the council approves the request then each vote will be recorded accordingly. If the changed vote causes a change in the outcome of the item ... no further action will be needed.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> There are five council members in Kennesaw — the four who now want to change their votes and Mayor Pro Tem Cris Welsh, who voted in favor of the mosque last month.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="font-size: large;">INQUIRY TO CITY AS TO MOSQUE MAX OCCUPANCY</span></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A week prior to this I had emailed the Kennesaw Chief of Police asking for the information. No reply, so now I have made the inquiry 'official'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The space available in unit #109 is 2,200 sq. ft. less space for 2 bathrooms and some office area, leaving 1,500 sq ft for worship services. I want to know what the KPD and Cobb Fire Marshal consider the Maximum Occupancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the tentative reply:</span></div>
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<pre style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Mark Rice CBO MCP Building Official </b></span></pre>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u>Kennesaw council reverses course on proposed mosque</u></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wednesday night, in a stunning reversal, the Kennesaw City Council said they plan to reverse their decision about a proposed new mosque in the area. 11Alive News</span></b><br />
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Jon Shirek, WXIA-TV, Atlanta 12:19 a.m. EST December 11, 2014<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KENNESAW, Ga.</b> (WXIA) -- Wednesday night, in a stunning reversal, the Kennesaw City Council said they plan to reverse their decision about a proposed new mosque in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All five council members met in private for more than two and a half hours Wednesday at Kennesaw City Hall. They met in private with the mayor and with the city attorney.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just after 9 p.m., they reconvened in public, and Mayor Mark Mathews announced that the council members who had voted against the mosque last week wanted to change their votes and vote for the mosque at their next meeting, on Monday. That would allow Kennesaw Muslims to rent a storefront in a small shopping center just off of Highway 41 for their worship center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Council members did not say why they were changing their votes to Yes. But the city was facing a certain, and expensive, lawsuit by the Muslims claiming that the city was violating their Constitutional rights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now the Muslims will not sue the city, and they will get their worship center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It's been a very sensitive issue for everyone," Mathews said. "Obviously, we all believe that Kennesaw's a fantastic place to live, to work, to play, to worship, and we want to try to make sure than everybody is accommodated as best as possible."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It is exciting news," said Amjad Taufique of the Suffat Dawat Center. "On a personal level, I really think that's a very good thing that just happened, if the Council is going to go back on the decision and approve this thing. And this will give us an opportunity to invite our neighbors more, and understand us better, and be able to work together for the better community that we all live in."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I'm very disappointed," said Kennesaw resident Carol Robertson. Robertson is against the mosque, but she criticized anti-Muslim picketers who demonstrated outside City Hall last week, afraid, they said, of Islamic violence if the mosque were approved. Robertson said they do not represent most Kennesaw residents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She opposes the mosque because she believes it would make traffic and parking at and around that location -- the small strip mall at 2750 Jiles Road -- worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It's not about faith. This is definitely a zoning issue. This is not the right thing for any faith, whether it's Methodist, Jewish, Catholic or Muslim. Wrong location," Robertson said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The formal vote will take place at the regular Council meeting this coming Monday evening, and unless any of the council members change their minds again, it will be a unanimous vote for the mosque.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Council members who voted No last week and told the Mayor they want to change their vote to Yes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leonard Church</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Tim Killingsworth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Sebastian</span><br />
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<b>DISCUSSION ONLY: Notice of Intent to present a Motion to Rescind</b><br />
<b>the action taken by Council on December 1, 2014 for the agenda item</b><br />
<b>listed under Old Business as "authorization for approval of a land-use</b><br />
<b>permit submitted by Suffa Dawat at Kennesaw for property located at</b><br />
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IT’S </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>OFFICIAL:</b> The Kennesaw City Council on Wednesday will once again consider whether to allow a storefront mosque to open in a shopping center on Jiles Road just off Cobb Parkway.<br /><br />Mayor Mark Mathews has said he hopes a council member will ask for a reconsideration of the question at Wednesday’s meeting. And Councilwoman Cris Eaton-Welsh — who was the only vote on the council in favor of a rezoning to allow the mosque at last week’s meeting — told Around Town on Monday she will move the item forward if no other member does.<br /><br />“If no one else stands up for it, I absolutely will,” she told AT. “I’m just really hoping one of the other members will step up.”<br /><br />Asked if any members have had a change of heart since last week, she answered, “I really have no idea.”<br /><br />If at least one member asks to reconsider the application, then a majority, or three out of the five members, would have to agree in order for it to be looked at again during Wednesday’s work session. The mayor votes only to break a tie.<br /><br />Coverage of last week’s hearing on the proposal was dominated by anti-Muslim comments from opponents of the storefront prayer center.<br /><br />Many predict Kennesaw taxpayers would be on the hook for attorney fees if, as expected, mosque-backers file a federal lawsuit in the wake of the rejection.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Do you remember this guy? </span><br />
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Islam to put in the application for a 24 month waiver of the Kennesaw zoning regulations so a store front Mosque could be put into a down market strip mall behind the Publix store on Cobb Parkway.<br /><br />And as we all know this Mr. F. (What is the 'F' for?) Islam also put in writing the Suffa Dawat claim that there were no other Mosques within a 20 mile radius when there are at least 7, one as close as 8 miles away. This claim later got an apology from Mosque shill/attorney Dougie Dillard, you won't likely have heard about the apology as it was given in an (illegally) closed session before the start of the Dec. 1st regular Council meeting.<br /><br />So even Dougie was apalled by the lies told by his Pakastani clients. He wasn't all that sorry though as he threatened to sue the City for at least $1,000,000 for enforcing the City zoning regulations.<br /><br />Let's look a bit closer at Mr. A. K. Amer:<br />He is a multi millionaire. He lives in a gated estate at 2467 Sewell Mill Rd, in Marietta with a Fair Market Value, this year, of $795,000, down a bit from over a million bucks due to the downturn in realty prices.<br /><br />He is listed in Cobb County Tax records as having a boat with a FMV of $728,640 and an airplane with a FMV of $66,640 and just in Cobb County the Georgia Secretary of State site says that he owns 4 companies: </span></section><section id="postingbody" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A&R ENGINEERING INC., </span></section><section id="postingbody" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">LILY ESTATES, LLC, </span></section><section id="postingbody" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">ROBINSON ESTATES, LLC. </span></section><section id="postingbody" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE, LLC. (a strip mall)<br /><br />Hold on a second! </span></section><section id="postingbody" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></section><section id="postingbody" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Amer 'owns' a STRIP MALL?<br /><br />Yep, Abdul owns the 11 unit, <b>Shops at Hickory Grove</b>, located at 2639 Hickory Grove Rd, Acworth, Ga. 30101, FMV of $2,074,900 and just 3.9 miles north of the location he insists on using in Kennesaw for his strip mall Mosque.<br /><br />And here FYI is an interesting thing about this Hickory Grove strip mall, it has 3 empty store fronts, all in a row. Units #120, #130 and #140, all empty and for rent. This strip mall is just 2.5 miles farther from Mr. Amer's home in Marietta than the proposed Kennesaw location for a Mosque, Hickory Grove, being closer to I-75 it is the same 17 minute travel time from Mr. Amer's home.<br /><br />You might wonder why this multi millionarie developer/engineer doesn't simply put his new botique Mosque into his Hickory Grove strip mall.<br /><br />You might also wonder just why he wants to start a new Mosque in Kennesaw when he is .6 of a mile from the East Cobb Islamic Center, 1111 Braswell Rd, Marietta and 3.1 miles from the Masjid Ibad-ur-Rahman Mosque, 2692 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta. Rather than a 2 minute drive to the East Cobb Center he would rather drive 17 minutes to Kennesaw to his own Mosque?<br /><br />Why aren't the other 7 Marietta area Mosques good enough for Mr Amer and his followers?</span></section></section>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our wealthy 'engineer' Mr. <strong>Abdul
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the Acworth
location is 2 miles further from Mr Amer's home in Marietta than the Kennesaw
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why is he so anxious to put his new
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Dec 4th I drove the 4 miles from my house to the strip mall owned by Mr. Amer. There are 3 vacant, side by side, units in his mall. If he is serious about wanting a Mosque in a strip mall he has his own mall and could put the Mosque there rather than in the Kennesaw strip mall.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">So why all the nonsense from Mr. Amer and his insistence on putting it in Kennesaw, both sites are a 17 min. drive from his Marietta home and his passes by 2 other Mosques to get to either of the sites.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Does he just want to cause trouble or does he really want to start his own Mosque? Here is his own strip mall in 25 photos:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="cm-timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><b> <time class="updated" datetime="2014-12-04T15:02:03+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">December 4, 2014</time></b> | Filed in: <a href="http://politics.blog.ajc.com/category/kennesaw/" rel="category tag" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kennesaw</a>. <b>by Jim Galloway</b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nayyer Islam’s house is close enough for me call him a neighbor, though he lives in the plusher confines of the Marietta Country Club.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is a physician – a diagnostic radiologist with a comfortable practice in Buckhead. Apparently he is very good at what he does. Islam studied medicine in his native Pakistan, but his residency included Harvard Medical School. He is a U.S. citizen with two American-born children, and a devout Muslim.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Nayyer Islam (center) and other mosque supporters gather as their attorneys conferred with city officials on Monday night.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Islam has marveled at his adopted country’s acceptance of religious diversity. “Every Friday my secretary – they know I’ll go for a one-hour prayer break. They don’t schedule any patients during that time. They’re so respectful. This is the kind of America that I know of,” he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the good doctor has learned that some parts of the United States have a multi-layered system of citizenship – and that he is a member of the lower tier. On Monday, the Kennesaw City Council decided that it would rather endure the time and expense of a federal lawsuit rather than approve a two-year use permit for a small, storefront mosque in a struggling shopping center off U.S. 41.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only a week earlier, Islam had participated in a public hearing on the mosque permit that was remarkable for, if nothing else, the imagination of Kennesaw residents worried about terrorism and what happens during Islamic worship services. “There’s something I’ve seen in a video where they don’t have shirts on and they cut themselves and blood comes out,” one fellow ventured.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That was an eye-opener, that night,” confessed Islam, whose family is one of 20 or so behind the Suffa Dawat Center. A week later, the city council would bow to those fears.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kennesaw may view itself as the spiritual home of the Second Amendment, a place where the head of every household is required to own a firearm – unless he or she doesn’t want to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But on Monday, the city proved itself far less keen on the First Amendment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That night, you could tell that city officials felt themselves under a good deal of pressure. We’re told that a 5:30 p.m. dress rehearsal – er, work session – preceded the 6:30 p.m. council meeting. But this is only hearsay.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a rather liberal interpretation of the state’s open meeting laws, the entirety of City Hall was locked down for the early session. Witnesses were barred.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a balmy exile outside, with a beautiful sunset and a modest circus for entertainment. Signs carried by a handful of protestors included “Ban Islam,” and “Islam wants no peace.” One fellow, who described himself as a Christian, waved Israel’s national flag – thinking it would cause Islamic blood to boil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, this was something of a libel. During recent fights in Alpharetta and Lilburn to accommodate Islamic congregations, the Anti-Defamation League formally came down on the Muslim side. The Middle East is one thing, but in the U.S., beleaguered religions tend to stick together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most entertaining character in the protests was a fellow who zipped around in an electric scooter with three flags trailing behind – two American banners, and the discarded ’56 state flag with its Confederate battle emblem. He wore a holstered sidearm, dangled a pair of handcuffs over the back of his jeans, and passed out free copies of the U.S. Constitution.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A quick check showed that the First Amendment, with its promise of the freedom to worship as one pleases, was still there. Whew.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the rehearsal over, the doors to City Hall were unlocked and the crowd allowed in, naturally dividing itself into pro-mosque and anti-mosque forces. Prayers were said. In the front row, Nayyer Islam and his brother Mufti Islam, with 20 or so friends, very deliberately put their hands over their hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance.</span></span><br />
<a href="https://cmgajcpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/mosque.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #9d9d9d; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Dr. Nayyer Islam (center) and other mosque supporters gather as their attorneys conferred with city officials on Monday night." class=" wp-image-8457" height="640" src="https://cmgajcpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/mosque.jpg?w=324&h=432" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 999;" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="background-color: #ededed; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 30px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Dr. Nayyer Islam (center) and other mosque supporters gather as their attorneys conferred with city officials on Monday night.</b></span></span>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very little time passed before city attorney Randall Bentley summoned attorneys for the mosque into a backroom for negotiations. The bargain that emerged was somewhat disturbing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In their application, the would-be congregants stated that there was no mosque within 20 miles of City Hall – an important point in a religion where five-a-day prayers are a feature. In fact, a mosque in east Cobb County is 10.8 miles away. A mosque in Marietta is 9.6 miles away.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">City officials demanded an apology for the misinformation, and got it from attorney Doug Dillard. Perhaps the council considered accuracy to be of supreme importance – though it is hard to imagine the same officials demanding exact mileage to the nearest Baptist church.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But perhaps, instead, this was payback. Perhaps city officials blamed Dillard for a story that appeared that very morning in the Marietta Daily Journal. Mayor Mark Mathews had told the newspaper and other media outlets that Kennesaw, as a matter of policy, didn’t allow houses of worship in retail spaces. The newspaper reported that, just last July, the council gave unanimous approval to a Pentecostal church in a shopping center. Oops.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The city of Kennesaw’s back-up argument against the mosque was about parking. The shopping center in question is emerging from a foreclosure. Many of the rental spaces are empty, as is most of the parking lot. See a quick video snapshot here, taken on Tuesday:</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nonetheless, on this private property, the city council demanded that the Muslim congregation give up the first two rows of parking spaces in front of their establishment – in favor of current and future users of all retail space.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such negotiations are common between landlord and renter. But when the requirement comes from government, there is a back-of-the-bus feel to the demand. The message: Anyone who comes along, now or in the future, will have precedent over you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, the Muslim congregation had to promise not to sue the city.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nayyer Islam and his fellows agreed to every one of Kennesaw’s stipulations. Upon which the council rejected their permit on a final 4-1 vote. The entire exercise had been a charade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Suffa Dawat congregation has until the end of the year to decide whether or not it will file a lawsuit against the city of Kennesaw. Chances are that it will.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dillard, the group’s attorney, is a kind of religious freedom specialist. He won settlements in those Muslim congregation cases in Alpharetta and Lilburn. It is very likely that, ultimately, Kennesaw will be paying the bill for Dillard’s rendered services. A large one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If, perchance, you think this is a lonely opinion, consider this editorial in today’s Marietta Daily Journal.</span></span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.38;"><u>How about putting the Mosque at "THE SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE" In Acworth?</u></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38;">Our wealthy 'engineer' Mr. </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.38;">Abdul
K. Amer</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38;"> of Marietta, is no stranger to strip malls and in fact owns one
in Acworth called The Shops at Hickory Grove, 2639 Hickory Grove Rd, Acworth,
Ga. 30101, just 3.9 miles north of the location he insists on using in
Kennesaw.</span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the Acworth
location is 2 miles further from Mr Amer's home in Marietta than the Kennesaw
site, it is the same drive time of 17 minutes from his home as<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> the Acworth site is a few blocks from
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why is he so anxious to put his new
Mosque into a downmarket store front here in Kennesaw when he owns his own strip
mall not far away?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">He currently has as his tenants: a
Cleaners, a Dog Grooming business, a Chiropractor, Stardust Tan, Posh Nail
Salon, Little Caesars Pizza. Google Earth shows signs saying he has units
available for lease. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">If there is no vacancy now he can wait
for one to occur and use that space for his Mosque.</span></span></span></span></div>
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As you will see from various press reports a considerable amount of hot air has accompanied this issue. Before you start reading these reports it is important to clarify that the City of Kennesaw did not tell the <b>Suffa Dawat Center</b> that they could <b><span style="color: red;">NOT</span></b> have a Mosque, they told them they could not have one in a strip mall long zoned for retail businesses.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The closest existing Mosque to the proposed one in Kennesaw is the </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Masjid Ibad-ur-Rahman Mosque,</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> 2692 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, Ga 30066. It is</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> 8.8 miles away, next is </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">East Cobb Islamic Center, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 18px;">1111 Braswell Rd, Marietta,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 18px;"> 10 miles. In fact there are at least 7 already up and running and serving this areas Muslim community and a total of 74 Mosques in North Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;">A very wealthy Marietta Muslim, <b>Abdul Kareem Amer</b>, who lives 6 blocks from one of the above referenced Mosques and 3 miles from another, gets a Kennesaw Mulsim, <b>Mr. F. Islam</b>, to put in a '<i><b>straw man</b></i>' application for a store front Mosque in a retail center and also gets Mr. Islam to put forth a bogus claim to the City that there is <b><i>'no Mosque within a 20 mile radius</i></b>' for the Kennesaw Muslims to use.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This rich Marietta Muslim wanted to run his own little botique Mosque and thought he would put it in a 2nd rate downmarket strip mall in Kennesaw where he would be a big fish in a small pond.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;">All the Suffa Dawat Center and Mr Amer needs to do is to make sure of the zoning and then buy some land and put up their Mosque.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Trying to sneak one in where it has no business being and lying about the lack of area Mosques isn't the way to do things.</span></span><br />
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<b><u>HOW TO GET YOUR OWN MOSQUE IN KENNESAW:</u></b><br />
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<b>1) Select a property correctly zoned for a Mosque</b><br />
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<b>2) Buy the property</b><br />
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<b>3) Build the Mosque</b><br />
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<b>4) Stop whining!</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">KENNESAW</span></b> — <b>The City Council denied a request by Muslim residents </b><br />
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<b>Traffic Engineer Abdul Amer and the Suffa Dawat Center applicant </b><br />
<b>Mufti Islam </b><b>exit the Kennesaw City Council Chambers on Monday </b><br />
<b>night after the </b><b>request to receive a 2-year land-use permit to create </b><br />
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Doug Dillard, the attorney representing the applicant, Suffa Dawat Center at Kennesaw, said the council’s denial was a blatant attack on the applicant’s First Amendment rights to practice religion freely. Dillard said the applicant, Mufti Islam, will fight back, and he has plans to bring a lawsuit against the city.<br />
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“We think it’s discriminatory, and it violates equal terms,” Dillard said. “They had no reason to deny this.”<br />
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Nayyer Islam, who represents the mosque, said they will continue to fight for their right to worship in the retail center.<br />
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“We’ll follow all the legal ways to continue to get the permit,” Islam said.<br />
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Eaton-Welsh said the applicant did everything he could.<br />
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“I’m saddened,” Eaton-Welsh said. “The amount of anger that has come out of this was not something I ever thought Kennesaw was all about.”<br />
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The application asked for the use of a 2,200-square-foot suite in a shopping center off Jiles Road as a prayer hall for Muslims. The shopping center, called Kennesaw Commons, is at 2750 Jiles Road behind a Publix grocery store off Cobb Parkway.<br />
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The city attorney, Randall Bentley, and Dillard spoke for about 20 minutes before the council took a final vote on Monday. Dillard agreed to some stipulations in an attempt to compromise to address traffic-related concerns residents had about the mosque.<br />
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The application, submitted by Suffa Dawat Center at Kennesaw, states the facility will be used for five daily prayers lasting 10 to 15 minutes, and one 40 to 45 minute weekly prayer service on Fridays, which could see 60 to 80 people.<br />
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Dillard agreed to cap the building capacity at 80 people and limit the number of parking spaces the mosque could use to 40.<br />
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Abdul Amer, who represents the mosque, said the stipulations were a tactic the city used to control the mosque.<br />
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“They were trying to draft up some stipulations to push us around basically,” Amer said.<br />
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However, the council voted 2-3, with Debra Williams, Leonard Church and Jim Sebastian opposed, to deny the application even with the stipulations.<br />
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Then, the council voted 4-1 to deny the application as submitted to the city without the stipulations.<br />
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Sebastian refused to comment after the meeting.<br />
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Williams said she voted against the application because she did not think a religious center should operate inside a retail shopping center.<br />
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“I believe it’s a retail space. It’s as plain and simple as that,” Williams said.<br />
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Yet Williams and all four other council members voted unanimously in July to allow a Pentecostal church in a retail center when they approved Redeemed Christian Fellowship Church to use a 4,000 square-foot unit in a center on the corner of Ben King Road and Cherokee Street.<br />
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Mayor Mark Mathews did not allow the public to comment on the mosque proposal at the Monday meeting. He said the vote on the church didn’t set a precedent because each application needs to be considered on its own.<br />
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“This is not anything that the city ever takes lightly for a land use permit, regardless of what it’s for. We are charged with honoring the law, the laws within the city and the ordinances within the city,” Mathews said before the vote.<br />
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A group of about 10 protestors gathered outside Kennesaw’s City Hall Monday evening ahead of the vote waving American flags and signs saying “no mosque.” About 20 other residents gathered to attend the meeting.<br />
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Karen Untz, who traveled to Kennesaw from Cumming to protest the mosque, said she was pleased with the council’s decision.<br />
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“(Muslims) are moving into all these small towns, and they’re camping out,” Untz said. “There’s no such thing as a temporary mosque. They claim the space, and they teach Shariah law.”<br />
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Kamaral Hosein, of Kennesaw, who said he is a Muslim, expressed disappointment in the council and in his fellow Americans after the vote.<br />
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“My reaction is, ‘Am I living in the United States of America? And am I really free? Or, am I just free if I’m like them?’” he asked, later specifying that “them” meant Christians.<br />
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Chad Legere, of Mableton, stood outside City Hall while the council discussed the issue waving signs in protest. He said he doesn’t want the United States to become the next Europe.<br />
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“There’s a way to stop Shariah law from getting into our country, and that’s what we’re doing,” Legere said.<br />
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Legere, who held a flag bearing the Star of David, said he thinks a mosque will bring radical Muslims to the community who will make the area unsafe.<br />
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“The Christian religion is very peaceful. It teaches us to turn the other cheek, and that’s what we’re doing,” Legere said. “This flag (with the Star of David) incites them. It makes them mad.”<br />
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Arden Stone, of Kennesaw, who said she is a Christian, supported the proposed prayer center.<br />
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“I’m upset, and I think it was a shameful decision,” Stone said. “Legally they have a right to be there. … I think the council was swayed either by their own prejudices or the prejudices of the people here protesting.”<br />
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Another protestor, Lynn Conner, of Kennesaw, said she protested the prayer center because she is scared of what Muslims stand for.<br />
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“I wanted to exercise my First Amendment rights while I still can, and I wanted to protect the Christian community that I live in against infiltration by the enemy who has gone on record with the goal to destroy everything we stand for,” Conner said.<br />
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People representing the Muslim faith and the prayer center said the protesters had a right to speak their minds, but David Scheidler, of Marietta, who said he is a Taoist, said he wished Christians would remember the history of their faith before speaking negatively about Islam.<br />
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“For people who use Christianity as an excuse to protest — when Christianity was small, it was persecuted too. So, if they were really remembering their roots, they wouldn’t be here,” Scheidler said.<br />
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The brother of the applicant, Kashit Islam, of Kennesaw, who said he is a Muslim, said the people against the mosque have a biased view of his religion.<br />
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“They’re totally isolated here based on what the news shows them. They’re just basing their decision on what’s going on in Iraq and Syria. We’re not like that,” Islam said.<br />
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Hosein said he does not appreciate outsiders judging his religion by only looking at people who are extremists.<br />
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“No one judges Christianity by the KKK, and that’s what they’re doing to us,” Hosein said.</div>
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<b>What should be very clear here is that this unnecessary and badly timed application has fractured </b></div>
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<b>the local community and set back Muslim/Christian relations here to about what it was </b></div>
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<b>1095-1291, during the 7 Christian Crusades. </b></div>
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<b>It is always possible that this was the intention from the start. If so, they did a fine job of it.</b></div>
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<b>We can expect that Mosque lawyer Doug Dillard will complain to the DOJ under the</b></div>
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Two days after members of the Kennesaw City Council voted 4-1 against a request by a Muslim group to open a mosque inside a shopping center, that group's leadership said they plan to explore legal action against the city. They would do so on grounds that their constitutional right to worship is being denied, according to their lawyer.</div>
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Kennesaw city leaders declined to comment on the story Wednesday, citing that the case is now an open legal case. Before Monday's vote, Mayor Mark Mathews said the debate was solely over zoning, parking, and traffic flow in the area, and that religion had nothing to do with whatever decision might be made.</div>
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"I believe the council did not really want the Muslims to be there," said Amjad Taufique, one of the leaders of the group hoping to open the mosque. "It was not about the traffic, it was not about the parking."</div>
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Anti-Islamic demonstrators outside of Kennesaw City Hall made it clear that they believe an Islamic worship center is not welcome in Kennesaw.</b></span><br />
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The local Islamic group wanting to rent the retail space for their worship center agreed to every limitation that the Kennesaw city attorney wanted to impose, including a two-year only lease, no more than 80 worshipers allowed at a time and no more than 40 parking spaces could be used at a time.</b></span><br />
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It was just this past July when the City Council approved a request from a Christian church to rent space in a small retail center in Kennesaw for their worship services.</b></span><br />
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Councilmember Cris Eaton-Welsh made the motion to approve the Muslim's request to do the same, but the other four members refused, silently, without debate -- and without comment afterwards.</b></span><br />
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The attorney for the Muslim group, Doug Dillard, said they may sue the city in federal court. He said that in similar fights across Metro Atlanta, he has reached out-of-court settlements after suing the local governments. The cases never went to trial; the two sides ultimately reached a compromise.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><u>FACT:</u></span><span style="color: #141823;"> There are 74 Mosques in the greater Atlanta, with at least 7 Mosques in the Marietta area, all well within 20 miles claimed, and in fact a principal supporter and the actual man behind this Kennesaw Mosque, Mr. Abdul Kareem Amer, 2467 Sewell Mill Rd, Marietta, a wealthy Pakastani Muslim, lives just six blocks, a 2 minute drive, from the East Cobb Islamic Center at 1111 Braswell Rd, Marietta, and this is 11 miles or a 19 minute drive from the proposed Kennesaw strip mall Mosque. Mr. Amer can also take a 6 minute drive, 3.1 miles north of his $795,000, 10 room residence, to the Masjid Ibad-ur-Rahman Mosque at 2692 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta Mosque which is 8 miles from the proposed Kennesaw Mosque.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The space available in unit #109 is 2,200 sq. ft. less space for 2 bathrooms and some office area, leaving 1,500 sq ft for worship services. I want to know what the KPD and Cobb Fire Marshal consider the Maximum Occupancy.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">KENNESAW</b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> — After a heated discussion between residents and council members that lasted more than two hours, the Kennesaw City Council tabled a vote Monday that would have decided whether to allow an Islamic worship center in a Kennesaw shopping plaza.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The City Council voted 3-2, with Leonard Church and Debra Williams opposed, to delay the vote by two weeks to its Dec. 1 council meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Councilwoman Cris Eaton-Welsh said she wanted to allow time for the residents who spoke at the meeting to resolve their concerns about the Islamic center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“I (request) to table this so that the communities can have some conversations and see if we can’t get rid of some of these misunderstandings,” Eaton-Welsh said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Doug Dillard, the attorney representing the applicant, Suffa Dawat Center at Kennesaw, said they plan to make themselves available in the next two weeks so city employees can schedule a neighborhood meeting to discuss the center. Dillard said he thinks the issues residents brought up Monday can be resolved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“Absolutely, I think they’re very solvable,” Dillard said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The proposal would turn a 2,200-square-foot suite in a shopping center off Jiles Road into a prayer hall for Muslims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The shopping center, called Kennesaw Commons, is at 2750 Jiles Road behind a Publix grocery store off Cobb Parkway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Kennesaw Mayor Mark Mathews said the city has never approved a permit for any type of religious facility in a retail environment that he can remember.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Eighteen people spoke to a standingroom only crowd Monday night in the Kennesaw council chambers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ashley Haspel, who owns a beauty salon inside the shopping center and lives in Kennesaw, said she is concerned people attending the prayer hall would use too many parking places, leaving no room for her customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“A worship center has no place being in a retail center. There are many other places for a worship center … Any religious organization does not fit the profile of bringing commerce to a retail center. It would hurt our business not having the parking for our customers,” Haspel said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">According to the application for the permit, the daily prayer services would likely be attended by 10 to 20 people and the weekly prayer service will see 60 to 80 people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Abdul Amer, a traffic engineer representing the Islamic center, said he did a traffic study on the parking lot and found with maximum attendance at the prayer sessions, there would be 20 additional cars in the shopping center’s lot. The shopping plaza has 127 parking spaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“It’s a small percentage of the parking lot being used today. Any concerns by retailers are just unfounded,” Amer said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mathews took issue with the statement, asking Amer repeatedly if he was sure about the estimate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“That’s your testimony? Under oath? As a professional engineer?” Mathews asked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Amer stood by his statements. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Arden Stone, a Kennesaw resident, said she encouraged the council to approve using the suite in the retail center as a prayer hall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“I think a lot of the rhetoric that we’re hearing (from residents) is based on a lot of fear and discrimination. My daughter is a Muslim and I don’t want her to come home and find people who won’t live next door to her. I urge you to reflect what I believe America stands for,” Stone said to the crowd and the council.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The application, submitted by Suffa Dawat Center at Kennesaw, states the facility will be used for five daily prayers lasting 10 to 15 minutes, which happen before sunrise, at 2 p.m., a couple hours before sunset, right after sunset and a couple hours after sunset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Another 40 to 45 minute weekly prayer service will happen at 2 p.m. on Fridays, according to the application.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The center will also offer hour-long education programs a few evenings a week, when followers of Islam will gather to study religious texts. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Not a religious debate, mayor says</b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Before people were allowed to speak at the meeting, Mathews told the crowd comments about religion would be not permitted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“This is not intended to be a religious debate or a discussion about people’s religious beliefs. It’s a purely technical hearing on the appropriate land use for a piece of property in the city of Kennesaw,” Mathews said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">However, some residents made allegations the teachings inside the prayer center would encourage the practice of Sharia law, something resident Jo Talley said made her fear for her safety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“I am first a Christian and then an American citizen. As a Christian I am to put no other God before my Lord, and I am also to love my neighbor. If you know me, then you know that I do my best to do those things … but I also have the right to protect myself. This project has to do with Sharia law,” Talley said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mathews said the council considered the application by focusing on the facts associated with the use of the space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“What we’re charged with is reviewing the zoning data and just sticking strictly with the technical information on the zoning and land use,” Mathews said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mathews said he was concerned the prayer services would occur during the day, when retail shops are open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“I think the biggest issue right now is the potential conflict with the times of their meetings and how it might interfere with retail shops. Their meetings are during the week and daily and then a big weekly meeting on Friday. I’m not sure of the times but I understand they’re during business hours. (The concern was) parking and just an influx of people coming in for their meetings,” Mathews said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Anthony Bonner, a Kennesaw resident, said he didn’t think a religious center would fit in with the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“There’s a clear understanding of the moral values that this mosque is going to present to the community, and we need to keep in mind whether this is in line with the values of our community. It’s bigger than just zoning and parking,” Bonner said. “This is bigger than right and wrong. This is not a religious debate. This is about a comment on the value and the merits of a community.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Somaia Khalil, a Kennesaw resident, said as a future attendee of the center, she was willing to work with any resident about traffic or noise levels, should they arise in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“We’re willing to work with the landlord about any problems,” Khalil said. “I’m willing myself to go there and clean and whatever they want. For two years, just give us a chance. If we are not good for the place then we’ll leave it. It’s that simple.”</span></div>
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This is easy.<br />
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The applicant LIED.<br />
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When he filed paperwork he stated that there were NO other Islamic centers within 20 miles of Kennesaw.<br />
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That has been discovered to be totally untrue.<br />
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The request should be flat out denied on the basis that the request is based on a lie. Period, end of story.<br />
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If they are going to lie about that, what else are they going to lie about?</div>
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City Council, please grow a spine and listen to the constituents who put you in office. Retail space is just that. You would be bending the law on the books to do this,so don't. Why would any of us who oppose this center want to do business with you? Why would we vote you back into office? You are about to tear down a really good place to live as you go down the politically correct route to appease a small group who did not vote you into office.</div>
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This marks the beginning of the end of our culture and heritage. Islam is incompatible with the American way of life. It seeks to destroy anyone who opposes it, convert or die.</div>
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What is really going on here in Kennesaw?<br />
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You have to wonder who is agitating the Muslim community to open a store front Mosque for 20 families? With 74 Mosques in North Georgia why the sudden interest in a store front facility in a 2nd rate mall?<br />
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Do those backing this really want a Mosque or are they looking to divide the community with this bogus issue?<br />
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Are a few agitators simply stirring the pot to promote discord and split the community?<br />
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Instead of just covering Council meetings the Press should be taking a look at who is actually behind this Mosque.<br />
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Frankly, something smells here and some investigative reporter might come up with what it is.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="color: #333333;">KENNESAW</b><span style="color: #333333;">, </span>Ga. (WXIA) – Before a packed meeting Monday evening, the Kennesaw City Council tabled a vote on a proposal that would allow an Islamic worship center to open in the middle of a shopping center, Kennesaw Commons, on Jiles Road near U.S. 41.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Supporters said the permit they are seeking would only be for two years, while they find a permanent location for the worship center. The group's application says they would hold daily prayers five times a day -- involving about ten people each time -- as well as a larger and longer worship service each Friday afternoon involving 60 to 80 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And it's all about safety," said a speaker. "Look at the TV every night. It's global."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I think that a lot of the rhetoric that we're hearing is based on a lot of fear and discrimination," said one woman. "I urge you to reflect on what I believe America stands for – that we can live together on this planet peacefully."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The council decided not to vote on the proposal on Monday, but rather to table it instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The temporary mosque would be placed at the corner of a strip mall on Jiles Road for as long as two years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mayor Mark Matthews told Channel 2 Action News that most of the objections are based on religious grounds, but the city planned to review the proposal based simply on code compliance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The group applying for the permit told city leaders that as many as 20 families would worship at the center until they can find a permanent home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Matthews said it's the first time a religious group has applied for a retail location. There are concerns from some that frequent prayer services will conflict with other businesses nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second and final public hearing took place Tuesday in Kennesaw with residents packing the room to have their voices heard.</span></div>
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"It would help to have better traffic in here because we are going to have people start selling food out of here so that would be really great," said Mueller.</div>
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The Suffa Dawat Center in Kennesaw has applied for a 24 month permit that would allow religious worship and education services at the strip mall until a permanent location is found.</div>
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"I don't like it," said Jesse Bullock.</div>
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Bullock lives across the street from the strip mall.</div>
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"I don't want them near me because the way I look at it is these people have shown me they can't be trusted," Bullock said.</div>
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The Kennesaw City Council scheduled a vote on whether to grant the permit Monday night. Mueller said she hopes the council does what's right.</div>
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"It is just a worship center, it is not even like it is going to be anything that is going to hurt anybody," Mueller said.</div>
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The council met, but ended up not making a decision. They will meet again on Dec. 1.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Who are the 3 major players in this matter?</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><u>Abdul Kareem Amer</u></b>, 2467 SEWELL MILL RD, Marietta 30062 (Pakastani)</span><br />
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Home Fair Market Value: <b>$795,280</b> (Yrly Tax $9/188), Airplane FMV: <b>$66,640</b>, Boat FMV: <b>$728,640</b><br />
President at A&R Engineering, Inc.<br />
Greater Atlanta Area Civil Engineering<br />
Previous:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>URS Corporation<br />
Education: Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A & R Engineering:</span></b><br />
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Welcome<br />
We are a group of professionals with over 50 years of combined Civil Engineering experience in Georgia. Our goal is to provide our clients the highest quality of engineering services.<br />
A&R Engineering has extensive experience in traffic and transportation engineering areas. Our expertise in this field and our knowledge of County and State DOT regulations have resulted in remarkable success in the past.<br />
You can depend on A&R Engineering for Civil Engineering / Traffic and Transportation Engineering services.<br />
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Contact Us ADDRESS:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A&R Engineering Inc. 2160 Kingston Court, Suite O, Marietta, GA 30067 TEL: (770) 690-9255 FAX: (770) 690-9210 EMAIL: <a href="mailto:admin@areng.com">admin@areng.com</a><br />
WEBSITE: <a href="http://www.areng.com/">www.areng.com</a>, <a href="http://areng.com/Home.htm">http://areng.com/Home.htm</a><br />
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<b>AMER, ABDUUL K & SULTANA</b><br />
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COBB TAX INFO (Home 2014 Fair Mkt Value <b>$795,280</b> (Yrly Tax $9,188) <br />
Airplane FMV:<b> $66,640</b> Boat FMV: <b>$728,640</b><br />
PARID: 16091400010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEIGHBORHOOD: 16089991<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>TAX YEAR: 2014<br />
AMER, ABDUL K AND SULTANA RUBINA, 2467 SEWELL MILL RD, Marietta 30062<br />
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Class<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Residential Small Tracts<br />
Total Acres<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>.9 Total Land Sq ft:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>39204<br />
Address<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2467 SEWELL MILL RD Marietta 30162<br />
Neighborhood<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1608 - 9991 HOMESITE<br />
Owner<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AMER ABDUL K & SULTANA RUBINA<br />
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Tax District<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9 - UNINCORPORATED<br />
Subdivision Number<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9991<br />
Building Stories 2, Construction BRICK, Style TWO STORY, Basement FULL<br />
Sq Ft Living Area<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6972<br />
Basement Living:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3167<br />
Year Built:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2005, Total Rooms 10 , Bedrooms 5, Bathrooms 4, Half Bathrooms 1<br />
Fireplace Y, Garage Y, Basement Garage N, Pool Y, Tennis N<br />
Airplane FMV:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$66,640, Boat FMV: $728,640<br />
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<b>GA SECTY OF STATE CORP SEARCH:</b><br />
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Search Results for Abdul Amer shows these Business Names<br />
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<b><u><span style="color: blue;">ABDUL K. AMER<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> A&R ENGINEERING INC.</span></u></b><br />
Entity Id 139878<br />
Business Name: A&R ENGINEERING INC. Registration Date 5/17/2002 Entity StatusActive/Compliance Entity Status Date 4/23/2014<br />
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Principal Office Address: 2160 KINGSTON CT, STE O, MARIETTA, Ga 30067<br />
Agent Is non-commercial Registered Agent? Yes Name ABDUL K. AMER<br />
Address 2160 KINGSTON CT STE O, MARIETTA, Ga 30067<br />
Email <a href="mailto:aamer@areng.com">aamer@areng.com</a><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: blue;">Abdul Kareem Amer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>LILY ESTATES, LLC</span></u></b><br />
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LILY ESTATES, LLC Control Number: 11067443<br />
Business Name: LILY ESTATES, LLC Registration Date 9/07/2011 Entity StatusDiss./Cancel/Terminat Entity Status Date 8/23/2013<br />
REPRESENTATIVE: Abdul K. Amer, 770-690-9255<br />
PHONE: 404-610-1431 SIZE OF TRACT: 1.089 acres<br />
PROPERTY LOCATION: On the east side of Old Canton Road south of Roswell Road (1060 Old Canton Road).<br />
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Principal Office Address 2160 Kingston Court, Suite O, Marietta Georgia 30067<br />
Agent Is non-commercial Registered Agent? Yes Name Amer, Abdul<br />
Email <a href="mailto:aamer@areng.com">aamer@areng.com</a><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: blue;">Abdul Kareem Amer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ROBINSON ESTATES LLC</span></u></b><br />
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ROBINSON ESTATES LLC, Control Number: 13385720<br />
Business Name: ROBINSON ESTATES LLC Registration Date 3/01/2013 Entity StatusActive/ComplianceEntity Status Date 4/23/2014<br />
PRINCIPAL: 2160 Kingston Court Suite O, Marietta Ga 30067<br />
GPS Address: 3706 Robinson Road, Marietta, GA 30068<br />
Agent Is non-commercial Registered Agent? Yes Name Abdul Amer<br />
Email <a href="mailto:aamer@areng.com">aamer@areng.com</a><br />
Upscale neighborhood in Walton High School District with eight homes.<br />
Now Preselling! Offered at $920,000<br />
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Located entirely within the Walton High School District of the Cobb County Public School System, the neighborhood is also less than a mile from the newly renovated and expanded East Side Elementary School. Also within one mile are both East Cobb Park and Fullers Park. Located near the newly widened Roswell Road, the neighborhood is situated in a location that provides great access to multiple cities in north Atlanta.<br />
<a href="mailto:robinsonestates@gmail.com">robinsonestates@gmail.com</a>, <a href="http://homesrobinsonestates.com/">HomesRobinsonEstates.com</a><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: blue;">Abdul Kareem Amer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE, LLC.</span></u></b><br />
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THE SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE, LLC. Control Number: 0607032<br />
Located at: 2639 HICKORY GROVE Rd, Acworth, Ga. 30101 1.52 acres First tax bill 2007<br />
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(<b>Tenants:</b> Cleaners #200, The Hart of Grooming #190, Chiro4Health #150, Stardust Tan #160, Eylon Nail Salon #170, Little Caesars Pizza #100, Tropical Brazilian Wax #180 - Units 120, 130, 140 are vacant.)<br />
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Entity Id 415883<br />
Business Name: THE SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE, LLC. Registration Date 1/31/2006 Entity StatusActive/Compliance Entity Status Date 4/23/2014<br />
Principal Office Address 2160 KINGSTON CT. STE O, MARIETTA, Georgia 30067<br />
Agent Is non-commercial Registered Agent? Yes Name <span style="color: blue;"><b>ABDUL K. AMER</b></span><br />
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Owner Information SHOPS AT HICKORY GROVE LLC<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>C/O MOORE INGRAM JOHNSON & STEELE, LLP</b> is a full service law firm</span><br />
326 ROSWELL ST, MARIETTA, GA 30060<br />
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Bill Information Record Type:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Parcel<br />
Bill Type:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Original Tax Year:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2014<br />
Due Date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10/15/2014 Payment Status Status<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Paid<br />
Tax Amount Paid 2014<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>$24,658.12</b><br />
Last Payment Date<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9/30/2014<br />
Parcel Information Parcel Number<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>20002603110<br />
Acres<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1.52<br />
Fair Market Value <b>$2,074,900 </b> Assessed Value $829,960<br />
Property Address<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2639 HICKORY GROVE RD<br />
Homestead Exemption<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NONE<br />
Tax District<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 - City of Kennesaw<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><u>Mr. Mufti F. Islam, 3947 McGuire Way, Kennesaw, 30144 (Pakastani)</u></b></span><br />
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This is the applicant for the Suffa Dawat center and he is one of the persons behind the Center which has applied for the 24 month use permit. It is an easy drive from his home to the strip mall<br />
Home Fair Market Value: $170,000 (Yrly tax $1,942.68), Airplane FMV: $23,000, Boat FMV: $140,470<br />
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<b>SUFFA DAWAT CENTER INC</b><br />
GEORGIA CORPORATION - Data Updated September 27, 2014<br />
Suffa Dawat Center Inc is a Georgia Corporation filed on August 29, 2014. The company's filing status is listed as Active/Compliance and its File Number is 14092856.<br />
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The Registered Agent on file for this company is Mufti F Islam and is located at 3947 Mcguire Way Kennesaw, GA 30144. The company's principal address is Mufti Islam 3947 Mcguire Way Kennesaw, GA 30144.<br />
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The company has 1 principal on record. The principal is <b>Mufti F Islam</b> from Kennesaw GA.<br />
Company Information<br />
Company Name: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SUFFA DAWAT CENTER INC<br />
File Number: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14092856 Filing State: Georgia (GA)<br />
Filing Status: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Active/Compliance Filing Date: August 29, 2014<br />
Company Age: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3 Months<br />
Registered Agent: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mufti F Islam, 3947 Mcguire Way, Kennesaw, GA 30144<br />
Principal Address: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mufti Islam, 3947 Mcguire Way, Kennesaw, GA 30144<br />
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<b><u>Suffa Dawat Center INC </u></b> Control Number: 14092856<br />
Entity Id 4909340 Email <a href="mailto:suffahmosque@gmail.com">suffahmosque@gmail.com</a><br />
Business Name: Suffa Dawat Center INC, Registration Date: 8/29/2014<br />
Entity Status: Active/Compliance Entity Status Date 9/22/2014<br />
Principal Office Addres<br />
PRINCIPAL: MUFTI ISLAM, 3947 MCGUIRE WAY, kennesaw Ga 30144<br />
Agent Is non-commercial Registered Agent? Yes<br />
Name: MUFTI F ISLAM, 3947 MCGUIRE WAY, kennesaw, Ga 30144<br />
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<b><u>HOW MANY MOSQUES ARE THERE IN GREATER ATLANTA?</u></b><br />
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I understand that one reason the Pakastani group cited for wanting a store front Mosque in Kennesaw is that there are none within 20 miles and this is to far for them to drive.<br />
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Regarding the availability of Islamic mosques etc in the Atlanta area I found this site to have a listing of various mosques: <a href="http://www.salatomatic.com/sub/jw5MC6jzjr">http://www.salatomatic.com/sub/jw5MC6jzjr</a><br />
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<b><u>In the Atlanta area there are:</u></b><br />
74 Mosques<br />
11 Schools<br />
158 Restaurants<br />
187 Markets<br />
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<b><u>Within 8 KM (5 Mi) of zip code 30152 there are</u></b><br />
7 Mosques<br />
1 School<br />
18 Restaurants<br />
32 Markets<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u>Soheil Saffaripoor, 9690 Loblolly Ln, Roswell, GA 30075 (Iranian)</u></span></b><br />
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Home Fair Market Value: $132,700 (Yrly Tax: $1,627.07)<br />
Owner: Kennesaw Commons, 2750 Jiles Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144, 3.76 acres, Fair Market Value: <b>$1,206,580</b> (yrly Tax: $14,459.64)<br />
Saffari Investments, LLC, Office Tel: (770) 864-8060<br />
<a href="http://kennesawcommons.com/">kennesawcommons.com</a>, <a href="mailto:ssaffaripoor@gmail.com">ssaffaripoor@gmail.com</a><br />
Home Address: Soheil Saffaripoor, 9690 Loblolly Ln, Roswell, GA 30075-4307 Home Tel: (770) 676-6444<br />
Kennesaw Commons is a mixed-use development shopping center. This strip mall is located on Jiles Road, just off the highly trafficked US 41 (Cobb Pkwy), directly behind a Publix Anchored retail center in Kennesaw, GA (North Atlanta MSA).<br />
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The shopping center includes 24,200 SF retail building, 2 self storage buildings totaling 9,400 SF and 60 RV / Boat Parking spaces<br />
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<b><u>Kennesaw Commons Tenants:</u></b><br />
Edge Kitchen<br />
Exodus Health Center<br />
Unique Salon and Spa<br />
Two Men and a Truck<br />
Candy Man<br />
Blue Canopy<br />
Lockett Color<br />
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<b>SAFFARI INVESTMENTS, LLC </b>Control Number: 11072716<br />
Entity Id 4158230<br />
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Business Name SAFFARI INVESTMENTS, LLC Registration Date 9/27/2011 <br />
Entity StatusActive/Compliance Entity Status Date 4/13/2014<br />
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PRINCIPAL Line 2750 Jiles Road Suite 100, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144<br />
Is non-commercial Registered Agent? Yes Name Soheil Saffaripoor<br />
Address 2750 Jiles Road Suite 100 Kennesaw Georgia 30144<br />
Email <a href="mailto:ssaffaripoor@gmail.com">ssaffaripoor@gmail.com</a><br />
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<b><u>Peggy Saffaripoor</u></b> on facebook at: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/peggy.saff?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/peggy.saff?fref=ts</a><br />
Current city: Roswell, Georgia<br />
Hometown: Tehran, Iran Languages: Farsi vs. Persian · English<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><u>Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Information you might want to file away in case Mosque lawyer Doug Dillard files against the City. I haven't read all of it and wouldn't unless it ends up in court, but it doesn't hurt to have the info filed away.</span><br />
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<b>SETTLEMENT REACHED WITH LILBURN, GEORGIA, OVER RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION CASE INVOLVING MUSLIM GROUP</b><br />
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2011/08-26-11.html">http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2011/08-26-11.html</a><br />
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<b>TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE - CHAPTER 21C--PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS EXERCISE IN LAND USE AND BY INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS</b><br />
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/hce/housing_rluipa2.php">http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/hce/housing_rluipa2.php</a><br />
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<b>Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000</b><br />
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/hce/rluipaexplain.php">http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/hce/rluipaexplain.php</a><br />
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<b>10 page Statement of the Department of Justice on the Land-Use Provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) </b><br />
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/rluipa_q_a_9-22-10.pdf">http://www.justice.gov/crt/rluipa_q_a_9-22-10.pdf</a><br />
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<b>15 Page Report on the Tenth Anniversary of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act</b><br />
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/rluipa_report_092210.pdf">http://www.justice.gov/crt/rluipa_report_092210.pdf</a><br />
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<b>37 Page Alpharetta Georgia Case</b><br />
<a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/app/briefs/alpharettabrief.pdf">http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/app/briefs/alpharettabrief.pdf</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1) ‘How to Start a Masjid’ (Keys to managing a Successful Masjid) 67 pages:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.masjidhamzah.com/Docum%E2%80%A6/How-to-Start-a-Masjid.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.masjidhamzah.com/Docum…/How-to-Start-a-Masjid.pdf</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2) ‘Controversies Over Mosques and Islamic Centers Across the U.S.’ Sept 2012, 22 pages. Summary of 53 Mosque and Worship Center problems.</b></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.pewforum.org/files/2012/09/2012Mosque-Map.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.pewforum.org/files/2012/09/2012Mosque-Map.pdf</a></b></div>
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