Jewish group joins Islamic center's fight to build new worship facility

[Ian David]

ATLANTA - A Jewish civil rights group has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a Muslim congregation that claims its expansion project was unlawfully blocked.

The Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday it was intervening in the case to support the Islamic Center of North Fulton. The congregation claims the city of Alpharetta has illegally blocked its plan to construct a new worship center.

The city has rejected the application, saying that the congregation vowed it would not expand when the center was built in 1998.

The Interfaith Coalition on Mosques filed a similar court motion in federal court.

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[mucifer]

1. Wow the ADL is usually fairly right wing. Kudos to them they will get

some push back from this and probably lose donations.

[BillStein]

2. on the other hand

some Jews, like me, might be more inclined to support them

[mucifer]

4. me too.

[Ian David]

3. You may be confusing the ADL with the JDL.

ADL Applauds Massachusetts Supreme Court Ruling on Gay Marriage
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/CvlRt_32/4409_32.htm

[TZ]

5. ADL is NOT right wing

Where in the world do you get that idea? They often work with the ACLU on stuff. They are however not one bit tolerant of any racism, whether that comes from the right OR the left (and believe me, I see proof everyday here that there are plenty of left wing anti--Semites)

[BillStein]

6. mea culpa

what can I say.... it was early.... I qactually have always supported the ADL

[Meshuga]

7. ADL will get more donations for this if anything

The majority of Jews are progressive and they prove this in election after election with at least 70% of the Jewish vote going to progressive candidates.