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BY CHARLIE MCKEAGUE


“A zoning permit has been denied for a controversial mosque in western Kentucky. … The neighboring businesses argue that the surrounding area wouldn’t be able to handle the extra parking needed for a mosque.” (WAVE)

Another mosque making headlines. This time it’s a small predominately Baptist community in Mayfield, Kentucky, which recently shut down plans for a mosque. On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann mocks the town and one man’s reason for opposing it.

Olbermann: “But at least the florist next door has a good reason.”  

Mayfield Man: “I don’t want them blocking up my parking places, blocking my driveway.”

Olbermann: “So what if it was a church next door with Baptists?”

Mayfield Man: “The way I see it they would park where they were supposed to park.  These people don’t care.”

Olbermann: “So now this is about parking!”

Opponents of the mosque distributed fliers before the vote and even got support from local lawmakers.  The Louisville Courier-Journal has part of what the fliers said.

"Everyone needs to contact Florence City Council to have this stopped … Americans need to stop the takeover of our country."

A spokesperson for the project quoted in Talking Points Memo blames the town’s vote on the controversy surrounding the mosque near Ground Zero.

"If it wasn't for that, and for the election season, perhaps a lot of this wouldn't have happened ...”

Kentucky Republican Vijay Kumar wrote a lengthy essay in The Vigilante — a blog that promises to uphold Christian conservatism — saying no mosques should be built in the U.S. period.

“A mosque in the United States is a command and control center of a foreign political and military state that seeks the overthrow of our government ... Islam is organized world criminality. The Islamic danger will be eliminated only when Islam throughout the world has ceased to exist.”

Media Matters takes a look at the issue as a whole and compiled detailed research on the right-wing opposition and says the ground zero mosque opened the floodgates to a nationwide attack on Islam.  See the link in our transcript for more in-depth coverage.

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