To Build or Not to Build? Mosque Protests Go Nationwide

This was in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, "Planned Temecula Valley mosque draws opposition."

Muslims throughout Temecula and Murrieta have saved up for years to build a mosque to replace the plain white industrial building, tucked between a pipeline company and packaging warehouse, where they now gather to pray.

But as the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley moves ahead with plans to build on a four-acre plot of vacant land near Temecula's gentle hills and invading housing developments, plans for the new mosque have stirred hostility in this mostly conservative community in southwest Riverside County.

Along with increased traffic and noise, opponents fear the mosque would clash with Temecula's rural atmosphere and, they say, possibly turn the community of 105,000 into a haven for Islamic extremists.

Okay.

But what about 1st Amendment protections for freedom of worship? Are folks in Temecula a bit intolerant? Or are we now going to prohibit the construction of mosques whenever there's local opposition?

This Temecula case doesn't seem to be anything like the opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque, which is clearly an example of Islamic Jihad's imperial conquest. New York Muslims will literally be praying on a battle zone where bodies are still being recovered.

And some even bigger names are speaking out on this now ... Sarah Palin, for example, on Twitter. And at ABC News: "Sarah Palin Joins Chorus Slamming Ground Zero Mosque: Palin Calls on 'Peace-Loving Muslims' to Oppose Mosque Near 9/11 Site."