byco42
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today's example comes from Sterling Heights with a twist: local Christians oppose re-zoning a 4 acre residential plot to allow it to be developed into a Mosque and Islamic cultural center. They may have legitimate concerns over traffic, noise, property values, and the like, but that's not why they're opposing it (link):
?This mosque is going to bring people like this. I do not want to be near people like this,? one resident ... said at the City Council meeting as he held up a photo of women in burkas. ?This is not humanity. ? It is not right to live with people like this. This is not acceptable at all because these people are scaring the public. And they don?t care. ? Can we prohibit this kind of public thing? We see them at the mall every day. We see them at shopping. Can we prohibit this? Can we make law against this? It?s scary and disgusting.?
?My grandfather built a house that backs up to this so-called mosque, worship, whatever it is. These guys are forcing out of this neighborhood. I have young children, they watch the news and now they?re getting scared. ? These people who are coming in are not beneficial to this area at all. Worship, no worship, whatever it may be. This facility is to store weapons, training, whatever it is.?Picture who is saying these things... loudmouth, abrasive Italian-American bigots? local Trump supporters? The Sterling Heights Tea Party chapter?
No! This vociferously racist opposition comes from none other than those unique-to-Detroit-partystore-owning-Iraqi Christians, known as Chaldeans!
Side note: That could be a Jeff Foxworthy routine: "If you know what a Chaldean is... why then, you might just be from Metro-Detroit!"
There is a "bit" of "animosity" between these two sects. Maybe that is part of the reason for the concern. "Party-store-owning." Nice oblique racial reference on your part, by the way. I recall that certain Africans I knew in Tucson were at odds with each other because their tribes back in Africa had a long history of mutual immolation and mayhem. It carried over.