{"id":232125,"date":"2016-03-17T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-justice-department-probing-new-jersey-citys-denial-to-build-mosque\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:47:47","slug":"us-justice-department-probing-new-jersey-citys-denial-to-build-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-justice-department-probing-new-jersey-citys-denial-to-build-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"US Justice Department probing New Jersey city\u2019s denial to build mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"76\">\n<p><strong>The US Justice Department is investigating whether a city in New Jersey violated religious freedom laws when it denied a plan by a group of Muslims to build a mosque.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department&#8217;s probe comes a week after the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sued the town of Bernards Township in federal court, alleging religious infringement.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges a very lengthy process during which the town\u2019s planning board made references to terrorism and questioned what children would learn in the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>The planning board also expressed concerns about storm water drainage and a buffer zone between the proposed mosque and a neighboring property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What should have been a simple board approval for a permitted use devolved into a Kafkaesque process that spanned an unprecedented four years and included 39 public hearings,&#8221; the suit said.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney representing the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, Adeel Mangi, declined comment on the federal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/17\/456234\/Islamic-Society-of-Basking-Ridge-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department is investigating whether a city in New Jersey violated religious freedom laws when it denied a plan by a group of Muslims to build a mosque. The Justice Department&#8217;s probe comes a week after the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sued the town of Bernards Township in federal court, alleging religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}