The proposed mosque's design has prompted some residents to complain that the 31,000-square-foot structure will be "un-Folsom-like." While it would be the 10th mosque in the capital region, it would be the first built in traditional Islamic style.
Posted on 08/25/2005 8:06:59 AM PDT by SmithL
Sharleen Stafford didn't hear about the Islamic Society of Folsom's new 31,000-square-foot mosque until more than a month after the city approved it - too late for an appeal.
For the first time in her life, Stafford said, she wrote a furious letter to the mayor. "What is it going to do to our little community?" Stafford said last week.
Stafford, 50, said that she is concerned the mosque will snarl traffic in her Sibley Street neighborhood, and that she's angry at the city for not doing more to publicize its public hearings during the planning process.
But she also worries the mosque will be a security threat. "You can't but not (worry), with all that's going on in the world," she said.
The Islamic Society of Folsom has existed without much controversy for 13 years, but the mix of anxiety about terrorism by Muslim extremists and frustration with City Hall has made the mosque the talk of Folsom this summer.
Most of the society's 300 families were drawn to Folsom by jobs at Intel. The congregation's adult members are largely immigrants from India and Pakistan, but the group includes members with roots in Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
The planned light-green mosque at Levy Road and Sibley Street would be the 10th in the Sacramento region, but the first to be built in traditional Islamic style, with a dome and 70-foot-high minaret adorned with a crescent moon.
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FOLSOM: It's not just about that prison anymore.
And we let these people in to this country WHY?????
May it be the last..
It's real hard to find home-grown engineers when the Public School system teaches feelings instead of math.
Will the building have an armory?....Will the flock follow Sharia law and if so will pans include an area for beheading, amputations and stoning?
Coming soon to your neighborhood, thanks to the open borders cabal of extreme leftists who view the demographic transformation of America as the best way to destroy this fundamentally evil country, and the media and political elites who think they will be safe in their gated communities.
"It's real hard to find home-grown engineers when the Public School system teaches feelings instead of math."
Amen to that.
I bet the Mormons could outdo it.
< "It's real hard to find home-grown engineers when the Public School system teaches feelings instead of math."
I think the Baptists own it now.
Turn it into one more Ground Zero training camp for Islamofascism -- what else?
It's also hard to find them when you don't even try to recruit them.
I know dozens of engineers who cannot find work in their field. Why aren't they hired ? Because they're more expensive than green card holders.
The residents of Folsom should have been paying much more attention. I knew about this before it was approved and I don't live there.
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Apparently, not just Johnny Cash 'hears that train a-coming'.
BUT THEY ARE ONLY TAKING JOBS THAT AMERICANS DON'T WANT.
If I hear this bullsh*t one more time, I'm going to hurl.
Is this a Wahabbi mosque?
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