What's bothering this 11-year Murfreesboro resident the most is the discord it's brought to her town.
Murfreesboro, a city of nearly 110, 000 residents, is located 30 miles southeast of Nashville.
In addition to this, it acquired the Murfreesboro project in December 2010 from SunPower Corp.
County officials must conduct a final building inspection at the mosque in Murfreesboro, near Nashville, U.S. District Judge Todd J.
"People who have been here forever have a very one-sided, ignorant viewpoint of what a mosque coming to Murfreesboro would mean, " she said.
But he took a sanguine view about the mosque in Murfreesboro.
"It is unfortunate that we cannot be in our building for the start of Ramadan tonight, " Islamic Center of Murfreesboro officials said in a written statement.
For example, the New York Times article cited Camie Ayash, a spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee - the sponsors of a proposed 52, 000 square foot mosque that has precipitated an intense local backlash.
The center's lawsuit argued that it was ordered to meet "a heightened standard of notice in the zoning process" because of objections by some Murfreesboro residents, a standard no other religious institution has been asked to meet.
The U.S. Justice Department and the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro filed separate lawsuits this week, arguing that Rutherford County officials violated federal laws when they denied requests for a final inspection and certificate of occupancy for the mosque.
The population is split equally into two groups, she said: those who have moved to Murfreesboro -- mostly for Middle Tennessee State University or to commute to nearby Nashville -- and those whose families have been there for decades.
During his late teens he was the only member of his generation from Possum Hollow to go to college, attending the state teachers school in Murfreesboro, while also hauling livestock to market, raising a tobacco crop, and selling radios door-to-door for the furniture man in Carthage.
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