AP: Houston suburb objects to mosque plans

[Eugene]

Dec. 7, 2006, 1:25PM
Houston suburb objects to mosque plans

By RASHA MADKOUR Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

KATY, Texas — A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered
a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning the place will become
a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just
to offend the Muslims.

Many neighborhood residents claim they have nothing against Muslims and are
more concerned about property values, drainage and traffic.

But one resident has set up an anti-Islamic Web site with an odometer-like
counter that keeps track of terrorist attacks since Sept. 11. A committee
has formed to buy another property and offer to trade it for the Muslims'
land. And next-door neighbor Craig Baker has threatened to race pigs on the
edge of the property on the Muslim holy day. Muslims consider pigs unclean
and do not eat pork.

-snip-

The dispute began when the group asked Baker to remove his cattle from their
newly bought land. Baker agreed but mistakenly thought the Muslims also
wanted him off the land his family has lived on for more than 100 years.
The rumor spread.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4386163.html

[maddezmom]

1. If that's how they feel they need to get rid of all places of worship

more people doing their best to give TX a bad name. :eyes:

signed an expat with a home in TX.
:(

[mtnester]

2. Once upon a time

mother nature culled idiots like these out of the gene pool pretty swiftly.

[niyad]

3. hard to believe that these jackasses live in the same state that gave us Molly Ivins

Ann Richards and Jim Hightower, isn't it?

[maddezmom]

6. yes, but it also gave us

*

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. No,

sadly Connecticut did that. To imply that Bush is a Texan is fighting words amongst the native Texans I know.

[maddezmom]

10. LOL

You're right! I guess you can tell I'm not native(or even living in my new adopted homestate). :hi:

[novalib]

14. THAT EXPLAINS IT!!!

Connecticut!!!

That explains the way * talks!

I KNEW it was a CONNECTICUT ACCENT he has!

When did the people of Connecticut elect HIM GOVERNOR???

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. or vice versa, depending on how you look at it

[novalib]

13. They Also CURSED US ALL!!!

They also cursed us all with the WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!!

And, isn't Tom Delay from suburban Houston???!!!

[bryant69]

4. Pig Races?

I admit I'm not a an expert in Islam but isn't the prohibition against eating pigs? Not the existance of pigs per se?

Unless they are racing their way into peoples mouths I suppose.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Az]

5. Nimby lives!

It used to be We The People.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. So muslims can live in Katy, they just can't worship there?

How stupid is that?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Well, I think we should just

not allow Christian churches to be built because that McVeigh terrorist fellow was a Christian, so they all must be....well, that's the logic they are using.

[maddezmom]

11. I agree no more churches of any sort

:thumbsup: And I'm a Christian. :D

[AspenRose]

15. Between this and the landscaping guy and his hatred of gays

Houston is really making me sad.

Sure, you've got little enclaves of culture and progressive ideals here and there, but....

*shaking head*

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. Katy used to be nothing but rice farmers and ranches not long ago

It's a small town that has turned into a suburb as Houston has grown over the past couple of decades. Most of the growth taking place in the past 15 years.

Not that I'm in any way defending Houston, but having lived there for 7 years I can tell you it was the leftover small town mentality that started this whole affair in Katy. I've never like the suburbs, but when the suburb was previously an old ranch/farm/mill town, it's even weirder. There's nothing more freakish than when farmer Joe's wife becomes a soccer mom. :scared:

[AspenRose]

18. I used to live in Montgomery County

Talk about :scared:
Yikes.

Wonder what these folks thought about Hakeem Olajuwon having helped to have a mosque built in Houston? Sheesh.

[Holly_Hobby]

16. We have a mosque here in NW Ohio

It's right off I-75 and it's beautiful. Here's a pic, but the top of the spires are cut off.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. Mosques as just as beautiful as churches.

I pass a couple of mosques on the way out of my subdivision heading toward Spring and they are very nice.

[Hatalles]

19. I've heard worse...

According to http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/mosques_in_us_that_have_experienced_violent_or_racist_incidents1/0012120">this, there were shots fired at the mosque in Denton, TX... and only five months later, it was firebombed. Mosques in El Paso and Austin have also been vandalized and firebombed.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. From the article:

"Though he now concedes the Muslims are probably not after his land, Baker said he is obligated to go through with the pig races, probably within the next few weeks, because "I would be like a total idiot if I didn't. I'd be the laughingstock now because I've gone too far."

So he admits he was an idiot...just not a total idiot. Too late dude, you're already a laughtinstock.