Incredible. Can you imagine the outcry if this was a Christian project?
Permit Segregated Muslim Communities?
Daniel Pipes
The Islamic Center for Human Excellence, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, has received permission from a local planning commission, report KLRT-RV and the Arkansas Times, to build an Islamic community to include a mosque, a school, 22 homes, and the adhan call-to-prayer broadcast by loudspeaker five times a day. It appears the community will be open only to Muslims. Further, Imam Aquil Hamidullah explains, the goal is "to have a clean community," which he describes as one "free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs."
Last I checked, drugs and gangs are outside the law but alcohol is not. Forbidding alcohol suggests imposition of some sort of Shari‘a (Islamic law) in this micro Dar al-Islam.
There are many steps between a planning commission and actually building, plus opposition is assured. The planning commission meeting was packed. For example, Tim Lawson, a Little Rock resident, expressed his opposition "to any type of segregation, and I believe this is what's going to happen [at the Islamic Center for Human Excellence]."
Comment: Allowing the development of such restricted, isolated, supremacist, Islamist enclaves would be an all-around disaster.
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