Planned Temecula Valley mosque draws opposition

[bloomington-lib]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Muslims throughout Temecula and Murrieta have saved up for years to build a mosque to replace the plain white industrial building, tucked between a pipeline company and packaging warehouse, where they now gather to pray.

But as the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley moves ahead with plans to build on a four-acre plot of vacant land near Temecula's gentle hills and invading housing developments, plans for the new mosque have stirred hostility in this mostly conservative community in southwest Riverside County.

Karen Fesini, who belongs to a Republican women's group in the Temecula and Murrieta area, said she's been making calls to warn her friends about the project.

"They say they're not radicals, but how do we know?"' said Fesini, 68. "Right now we're at war with the Taliban and the Muslims and our boys are over there fighting and dying for our freedom. What would it be like if they come home and found out we just let them in the front door?"

Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/18/local/la-me-mosque-20100718

[Regret My New Name]

1. Who's to say they're not brain eating aliens from Mars too?

You just never know...


idiots.

[David__77]

18. That's their "logic."

Definitely.

[3waygeek]

24. If they were,

they'd starve if they moved into Temecula.

[6000eliot]

2. Is this kind of bigotry really mainstream?

It seems like it is.

[izquierdista]

3. It's Temecula

She would hate you if you were gay or Hispanic or black or Asian too.

[6000eliot]

22. Well, I'm gay, so there you go.

But it's even happening in NYC.

[Posteritatis]

23. Yep.

There was brain-dead kneejerk outrage even on DU over that "mosque" being built several blocks from Ground Zero.

[secondwind]

4. bigoted woman with hate and fear etched into her mind....

[TommyO]

5. Think of all of those who died on 9/11, it's a crime to place a mosque so close to ground zero

Yes, that's :sarcasm:

[cartach]

6. It's starting !

And once people start allowing this kind of blatant bigotry then it will be too late to turn the tide. Get ready for class warfare.

[saigon68]

7. blatant bigotry

[Kali]

8. seems like authoritarian, conservative assholes would welcome same

(no I don't mean all Islam, I mean the exact perception-projection wingnut have of Muslims)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Make them wear a yellow crescent armband.

[denverbill]

10. Sure lady. And your grandma probably felt the same way about Jews. n/t

[Romulox]

11. Just up the street:

Front door: open! :sarcasm:

[LeFleur1]

12. Sounds Just Like the Hysteria Concerning Japanese

during WWII. We never learn.

[Romulox]

13. I will say this though: my community has one of (if not THE) biggest mosques in NA

and we don't have any problems here because of it. News crews and "national journalists" couldn't be less interested. I remember after 9/11, we heard about muslims being assaulted, even killed. A responsible media might have noted the lack of such things here in my community, but largely did not even bring a camera here.

Which just goes to show you--the world that they chose for you to see is not the "real world"!

[madmax]

20. It's a beautiful building. nt

[cstanleytech]

14. "They say they're not radicals, but how do we know?"' said Fesini

Yes Fesini, how do we know?? I mean if we used that logic then we should oppose every catholic church because how do we know that its not not really being funded by a group of boy molesting pedophiles trying to seduce our children???

[mbperrin]

15. Good gawd! There's TWO mosques in Midland, Texas, right

next door. Never raised an eyebrow here.

http://islamicvalley.com/prod/entitySearch.php/t/09L/s/TX/c/Midland

More right wing hateful and bigoted than Midland? PROBLEM!!!

[SunnySong]

16. Karen Fesini sounds like a small minded bigot...

well mainly because that is what she is.


I'm sure her friends did plenty of eye rolling with those phone calls.

PLUS WHAT KIND OF NAME IS FESINI... A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH SHOWS MIDDLE EASTERN, COMMUNIST AND CHINESE SITES...

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. So they are more likely to be radicals in a new mosque than in the one they are using now??

:wtf:

Just ignorant hate.

[harun]

19. You are using logic, she is using ....

[armodem08]

21. Some terminal stupidity in those quotes.

"The Islamic foothold is not strong here, and we really don't want to see their influence spread," said Pastor Bill Rench.

"There is a concern with all the rumors you hear about sleeper cells and all that. Are we supposed to be complacent just because these people say it's a religion of peace? Many others have said the same thing," he said."


Karen Fesini, who belongs to a Republican women's group in the Temecula and Murrieta area, said she's been making calls to warn her friends about the project.

"They say they're not radicals, but how do we know?"' said Fesini, 68.

"Right now we're at war with the Taliban and the Muslims and our boys are over there fighting and dying for our freedom. What would it be like if they come home and found out we just let them in the front door?"


Wow. Just wow.

[haele]

25. Yea, there aren't any Muslims in the US military, fighting in Afghanistan...

Oh, wait, yes there are.
I'm not surprised, though - according to an old friend that grew up there when Temecula was naught but a couple large several generations worth of ranches, a former Stage depot, Travelodge and Gas Station blip at the 215 branch to either Lake Elsinore and Riverside/March Air Force Base, Temecula is full of developments that sprang up when the over-privileged heirs sold off back in the 80's through 90's because there was no longer any money in family ranching...
People first moved there as part of, frankly, middle class white-flight; cheap, "safe" housing away from the big cities where a family could re-live the Roy Rodgers days. An hour commute (one way) to your job in OC or San Diego, but you could ensure your family was living away from all that corrupting influences of liberal modern life. And you could make sure your little girl had a pony - that is, until the developments started breeding incrementally because the cities of LA and San Diego kept spreading out, I-15 expanded to handle suburban traffic - and the land could be bought in large chunks, had a reasonable amount of aquifer for water, and was reasonably flat and easy to develop.
Even the "live and let live" Quaker community around there turned themselves into the Dick Nixon/Orange County brand of Quaker - one that took more from holier than thou consumerism as pushed by 60's evangelical hucksters than the community envisioned by William Penn.

Haele

[and-justice-for-all]

26. I bet if some one wanted to build a church there...

then there would be no issues I bet.