{"id":24225,"date":"2011-01-27T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_mosque_to_be_built_in_calif_city_after_denial_of_appeal_by_residents_who\/"},"modified":"2011-01-27T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:40:16","slug":"ap_mosque_to_be_built_in_calif_city_after_denial_of_appeal_by_residents_who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24225","title":{"rendered":"AP: Mosque to be built in Calif city after denial of appeal by residents who fear extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Temecula center has owned the land for years but didn&#8217;t encounter resistance until planning work on the mosque coincided with debate over the New York site, putting 150 Muslim families at the center of a bitter fight, said Imam Mahmoud Harmoush.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents worried the California mosque would be a center for radical Islam and add to traffic woes in the rapidly developing region. The mosque spent more than $17,000 in the past year, which included studies on the 4.3-acre site to address code concerns raised by its opponents, mosque leaders said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing how people shift their positions and really don&#8217;t listen,&#8221; Harmoush said. &#8220;They say, &#8216;Maybe somewhere they are mutilating women, somewhere they are beating their wives.&#8217; If somebody did something in Jordan or Pakistan or Iran, that doesn&#8217;t mean American Muslims will do it here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/wire\/sns-ap-us-calif-mosque-dispute,0,4445397.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Temecula center has owned the land for years but didn&#8217;t encounter resistance until planning work on the mosque coincided with debate over the New York site, putting 150 Muslim families at the center of a bitter fight, said Imam<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24225\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,615,426,114,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-city-government","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}