{"id":53676,"date":"2016-03-11T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt-muslims_sue_over_denial_of_bid_to_build_mosque_in_new_jersey_suburb\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:01:00","slug":"nyt-muslims_sue_over_denial_of_bid_to_build_mosque_in_new_jersey_suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53676","title":{"rendered":"NYT&#8211;Muslims Sue Over Denial of Bid to Build Mosque in New Jersey Suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a prosperous New Jersey suburb about an hour west of Manhattan, a retired AT&#038;T executive decided with some friends to open a mosque in the town where he has lived for nearly 40 years, been on the board of education, led a task force to create the town\u2019s community center and even served as mayor.<br \/>\nFrom Our Advertisers<\/p>\n<p>About 65 people attended the congregation\u2019s Friday prayer services, which were held in rented halls or sometimes in parks.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, the process seemed straightforward: In November 2011, the group, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, led by the former mayor, Mohammad Ali Chaudry, bought a four-acre plot in an area of Basking Ridge where zoning permitted houses of worship. The group\u2019s architects and engineers argued that the plan complied by a wide margin with every conceivable building requirement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/11\/nyregion\/muslims-sue-over-denial-of-bid-to-build-mosque-in-new-jersey-suburb.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&#038;smprod=nytcore-ipad\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a prosperous New Jersey suburb about an hour west of Manhattan, a retired AT&#038;T executive decided with some friends to open a mosque in the town where he has lived for nearly 40 years, been on the board of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53676\">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":[39,50,42,209,168,426,114,155,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53676","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=53676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}