The Discrimination From the Right

The Rutherford County Regional Planning Committee approved plans for a new Islamic center's construction in Murphusboro. But following that approval, there were acts of vandalism, lawsuits, bullying, and even arson from those who protested against the project. One group of residents took up the legal cause against the Islamic center. After some years of the case traveling through the courts, it was finally appealed to the US Supreme Court,. which denied to hear the case, thus effectively allowing the center to open.

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