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Controversy over a mosque. No, not in Tennessee. In the Bay Area.
Eurghh.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_21630645/muslim-mosque-approved-south-santa-clara-county
"I think there's a lawsuit coming," said Georgine Scott-Codiga, president of the Gilroy-Morgan Hill Patriots, a politically conservative group in south county. "This is best suited for a more urban area."
Tuesday's public hearing and vote at county headquarters in San Jose lacked much of the inflamed religious tension and anger of previous meetings, but some of those sentiments managed to surface, anyway.
One man even invoked the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks and implied the supervisors could be inviting a terrorist cell to take root.
"It's just astounding you would consider this project," he said.
Tuesday's public hearing and vote at county headquarters in San Jose lacked much of the inflamed religious tension and anger of previous meetings, but some of those sentiments managed to surface, anyway.
One man even invoked the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks and implied the supervisors could be inviting a terrorist cell to take root.
"It's just astounding you would consider this project," he said.
Okay, so South County ain't exactly Berkeley, but jeez, terrorist cells?
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To show how thoroughly Islamophobia has infiltrated the country, even in relatively progressive areas like ours. 
edit: Berkeley + right-wing loony = John Yoo. 
