Muslim prayer center, residents collide near West Chicago
By Jake GriffinLeaders of the Islamic Center of Western Suburbs want to convert a house at 28W774 Army Trail Road near West Chicago into the organization’s prayer center and food pantry, but neighbors are fighting the plan.
Kevin Wiley has been waiting for Monday for two years.
That’s the day when DuPage County’s Zoning Board of Appeals opens a hearing into a proposal to convert a house at 28W774 Army Trail Road near West Chicago into the headquarters for the Islamic Center of Western Suburbs.
The leaders of the Muslim group want to turn the house they bought out of foreclosure into a prayer center and food pantry. Neighbors like Wiley want the group to stop using the house for anything other than a residence until the county decides whether to allow a different use.
“First it was the landscaping issues they did without the proper permits that changed the floodplain and caused my basement to flood twice,” Wiley said. “The thing that bothers us the most is the constant rotation of different people coming and going every day.”
This is the third time the issue has been in front of the county’s zoning board. The Islamic Center’s new attorney, Kevin Gallaher, said he is aware of the history surrounding the proposal and is hopeful a resolution satisfactory to all sides can be reached.
“There’s been some miscommunication along the way on the part of all parties,” Gallaher said. “All sides need to come to an understanding as to what the ultimate use of the property will be.”
Islamic Center leaders are seeking a “conditional use” permit that will allow them to operate the property as a religious facility. They also are asking for more parking.
“They’re trying to convert a residential property into something it wasn’t intended to be,” said neighbor Ron Cwik.
Adding to the controversy is a private driveway the Islamic Center shares with Ray and Jackie Sitkiewicz. The couple told the county board last month that many times they’ve found themselves either unable to enter or leave their property because cars of people worshipping at the house five times a day block the drive.
In January, the county cited the Islamic Center’s leaders for zoning violations related to parking and non-permitted uses of the property. The state’s attorney’s office is seeking more than $25,000 in fines it claims the center has racked up since the beginning of the year for failing to comply with the county’s orders. But the case was once again held over for another month last week to see what comes out of Monday’s meeting, Gallaher said.
Compounding the confusion is the state department of revenue’s decision last year to grant a complete property tax exemption for the parcel. That amounts to more than $8,600 off the tax rolls, Wayne Township Assessor Michael Musson said.
Sue Hofer, a spokeswoman for the department, said the decision was based on a recommendation from the county’s board of review.
“We have no way of determining local land use,” she said. “Our job is to determine whether the use of the property is consistent with the law.”
Hofer said the Islamic Center’s paperwork was complete and included federal nonprofit documentation.
DuPage Supervisor of Assessments Craig Dovel said that while his office does make a recommendation in conjunction with the board of review, the state is ultimately responsible for deciding whether to grant an exemption. Dovel and Board of Review Chairman Tony Bonavolonta said the county doesn’t check for zoning violations before making any recommendations.
“We don’t question a religious use,” Bonavolonta said. “We just forward that onto the department of revenue.”
However, Hofer said the state relies on county officials to make sure a property owner seeking a tax exemption is legitimate.
“They are our eyes and ears on the ground,” she said.
Wiley said none of the government agencies are looking out for the residents.
“See? That’s insane with the tax exemption,” he complained. “By them saying they are using the property for religious purposes, they are admitting to the zoning violations.”
The county has been dealing with church-related zoning issues for several years, but the county board rejected a measure that would have imposed significant limitations on locations more than a year ago. The county is being sued by another Muslim organization after a proposal to open a similar prayer center and food pantry near Naperville was rejected recently.
County board member Jim Zay said the issue of zoning for religious facilities in residential areas needs to be addressed.
“It’s not about the church, it’s about property rights,” he said. “People coming into a single-family area have the right to assume it’s going to remain a single-family area.”
No…this is not a repeat post of Muslims trying to do the same exact thing in Brooklyn NY. This time they are showing no respect to their neighbors in Chicago. Muslims are constantly demanding respect, yet they do not care about the wants and beliefs of non-Muslims. Islam is one-way street, and we should return the favor. Say no to Muslim immigration, and Mosque construction.
Hat tip to Dee.
the landscaping issues they did without the proper permits that changed the flood plain and caused my basement to flood twice,” Wiley said.
Place a suit for all damages to start with .then get a pitition of all people in the area and send a copy to the county and city zoneing offices.
“The thing that bothers us the most is the constant rotation of different people coming and going every day.”
When it is westerners it would most probably indicate that it is junkies coming and going to either buy drugs or peddle stolen goods. But now it happens to concern arselifters. Well, what the heck, I consider 99% of that crowd criminal anyway.
100% actually. 😉
Of course, I’ve must have been temporarily insane when I wrote that.
Careful you don’t keep that up or you might end up an arselifter.
Not if they kill you first!!!
If these schmucks tried that in my neighborhood I’d bury the place in pig shit for a day or two. If that didn’t get rid of them I’d firebomb the shit out of them/
keep that between you and us.
Pig’s blood is all that’s needed. Once the site is contaminated, they won’t go near it.
It is already contaminated with your blood which is worse than pigs blood. So shut the fuck up.
I agree with you 100%!!!!Have a couple of pet pigs, when they shit, at night throw the shit mixed with pig piss or what ever, and splatter the house with it!Get funds from our MOOK president , ( stimulas), to pay for your pigs, you will be creating jobs for shit cleaners, Muslim will not clean it themselves. They will have to hire infidels to cleaning it it off. Now our scum sucking muslim spook president can really claim the stimulas has created jobs, yea!
You just a racist fuckhead. Come and say that face to face with a Muslim, you chicken shit.
Pig-shit would only make them feel that much more at home. They’re filthy people, and they hate us. Unless we stop their encroachments they’ll run the place and eventually kill all us infidels.
This is sticky as practicing religion in a home is legal. They’re doing well by condemning the atrocious ‘in your face’ attitudes Muslims have regarding zoning; such as changing the grading of the landscape originally designed to avoid FLOODING. (The city should sue them for this one.)
Each neighborhood has it’s own zoning restrictions. Yet, most of them condemn wide-spread use of a home which includes droves of cars, visitations and commotion all hours of the day and night, especially.
These scum are just trying to create a Mosque in a cheap way rather than obtain necessary funding to establish a legitimate Mosque on a higher-priced parcel of land and I’ll bet they’re willing to break every law possible until someone takes a stand. I’ve seen it time and time again.
7th century scum with no respect to civilized and considerate behavior to humanity. It’s always the same story. “We’re spethal and don’t hafta follow the rules.” (in a squeaky nasal tone, no less)
If it was a church being established, then it would have been alright, so shut the fuck up bitch.
Nabeel,
are you a U.S. citizen? you certainly have some of the speech patterns correct, all the way to poor grammar which is indicative of your age and the fact that if you attended public schools here, you probably don’t know much.
He certainly doesn’t know he’s an imbecile.
well they do spend the money (always cash – wonder where that comes from) to build mosques but they slide it under the radar unless citizens find out about it and brings it into the light and fights it. Everyone needs to stay in the light!!! Don’t let these cavedwellers get their numbers high enough to take over…don’t allow them to get Sharh’ia Law in the door. Fight with all your might. Join groups…stay focused, stay informed, talk to other Americans…don’t let them divide us.
You are already divided from the civilized world you asshole. And by the way…who do you think gets all the money when you fill gas at the petrol station…another stupid american asshole.
muslims want to turn house into mosque. Would you consider giving us permission to print this article in our family owned weekly newspaper. We are fighting the approval of a 52,000 muslim compound here in Murfreesboro, Tn. (rutherford county) if you google pete doughtie you’ll see want we are doing. Our paper was thrown out of Kroger markets after being accused of printing hate speech articles about muslims and islam. thanks pete
You’ll probably have to contact the Daily Herald about the original article. The link is above, at the end, but here it is too –
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=393213&src=2
Hi Pete,
Sorry I did not get back to you sooner. Please take anything you want from here.
Here is some good information on Islam. If use any of it, please link back and if you have anything you want me to post, send it here……. [email protected]
https://loganswarning.com/islam-101/
Keep up the fight!
I read an article about the mosque situation earlier, and I have to agree with the author who was asking “Why do you want to in the first place?”
It’s pretty funny, anyway. Maybe a little insensitive. http://bit.ly/97jMFR
I see that welcome party is even wearing burkas as a mark of respect. 🙂 I hope they gave the arselifters a warm reception.
Birkas of respect? Lol.
LMAO!
Truly, a gesture of solidarity.
Yep. And they should burn korans rather than crosses at the welcome bonfire.
I wonder if we will ever see a Bubba-mohammed? LMAO
Probably not, but u are going to see your ass when you die and face the Lord of the Worlds.
The same thing has happened in Sioux Falls SD. The local Muslim congregation purchased a house in a residential neighborhood, KNOWING it was not zoned for a church.
They harangued the City Council for a year to give them an exception for zoning and the City Council finally caved in over the protests of the neighbors.
Why couldn’t they buy an empty building in a commercially zoned area?
Why couldn’t they save their shekels and build a new building like Christians and Jews have to do?
This how the muslim gets into a neighborhood, and creates a presence. The reason- the muslim is an attention whore. they like to intimidate and frighten people. Also, they want to indoctrinate wanna be’s and useful idiots. Keep in mind anyone who supports Islam supports hatred and violence aganist women and non muslims. If you support Islam you support violence and terror. Whenever, I come in contact with Muslimas I make my contempt known. A woman who thinks women are inferior deserve my contempt.
You deserve a fucking ass raping from your father that’s what you deserve.
Nsbeel,
you are one backward motherf”er. Get the hell out of the stoneage you cave dwelling piece of shit!!!!
For all to read ; again!!!!Attack them where it hurts,MONEY. seek out muslim businesses in all areas. Post to us infidels in those areas that these businesses are muslim, “DO NOT SHOP, MUSLIM OWNED”…..Then the fun starts, a constant barrage of pig shit on their stores, homes, cemetaries…….Pig shit it all constantly!!! Drive them them crazy, and bancrupt them paying for infidel pig shit cleaners, new businesses will be born cleaning pig shit off of these scum sucking mooks. Added benifit!Pig shit cleaners can resel the pig shit the clean to all, interested parties. Believe me people, if we infidels ganged up on them we would make them wail and lament the Islamist demon trash they believe. Picture an add with Alah, cleaning pig shit as the national advertising for the new infidel pig shit industry, …..Thank you Mooks, we will make a fortune,,,,!!!!!!…OXNIN
When you face Allah (SWT) the Lord of the Worlds, you are going to find yourself in pig shit. I hope He never forgives you for what you have said about Him. The Muslims don’t do that to your businesses, so stop being a fucking racist moron. oh and devil worship was created by the white man and not part of islamic belief. So go educate yourself before you talk shit.
Off topic, but this just showed up from an old veteran friend; if this is true it is scary as hell.
Dhimmitude
I had never heard the word until now—Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting.
It’s on page107 of the healthcare bill.
I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists! It’s a REAL word. Amish are also excluded.
I think I could become Amish a whole lot easier than Muslim.
Word of the Day:
Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-muslim
populations conquered through jihad.
Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-muslims in exchange for
tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered
remnants to islam.
The Obama Care bill is the establishment of Dhimmitude
and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States. Muslims are
specifically exempted from the government
mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being
uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be “gambling”, “risk-taking” and
“usury” and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption
based on this.
How convenient. So I, a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets,
including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will
face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty
tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such
penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto
government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims.
Period. This is Dhimmitude.
Dhimmitude serves two purposes: it enriches the Muslim masters AND
serves to drive conversions to Islam.
In this case, the incentive to convert to Islam will be taken up by those
in the inner-cities as well as the godless Generation X, Y and Z types who have
no moral anchor. If you don’t believe in Christ to begin with, it is no
problem whatsoever to sell Him for 30 pieces of silver. “Sure, I’ll be a Muslim
if it means free health insurance and no taxes. Where do
I sign, bro?”
Amish it is then.
That is also what I fear, that many of us kuffar will convert just to avoid the persecution and after they have become arselifters it’s scott free to persecute kuffar for them too. That makes them feel like they have power. So many of us will betray the others, perhaps even their own kin, just for the sole reason of getting more leverage over the rest.
It is no great leap to imagine these types becoming enthusiastic bullies for islam.
You might want to check this out. Ongoing jihad in Dudley, UK and Grenoble, France. I tried to get the first one from the original source at Atlas Shrugs but got a bad gateway message so you have to do with GoV.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/07/updates-from-dudley.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-17/rioters-shoot-at-police-set-cars-on-fire-in-french-town-of-grenoble.html
Of course there is ongoing jihad there…cause fuckheads like u stay there and are giving the muslims a hard time.
The comments here are huge and definitely due to the outrageousness of the way this mosque is being pushed. Let’s not let the fact that this is so damn outrageous blind us to the very real possibility of this being a provocation designed to bring about a violent act against the house itself or the Muslims going in and out of it. If that happens then these Muslims can easily point such places as this comment thread as “provokers of hatred”. It’s just a thought I had to share.
Cheers,
A. al-Z.
These comments are a reaction to Islam overall, and I really do not care if Muslims play the victim card. They have over used it.
Dont talk nicely to these fuckers…the time for talking has long passed. Now is the time for action. Shaytaan has blocked their hearts and minds from understanding anything.
Millions of Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese, Philippinos in this country – not one terrorist attack from these groups. I suppose you consider a gift that the few Muslims in this country perpetrated the largest attack on US soil in the history of the US. A gift of sharing their culture with us
There’s probably more Muslims living in India than in Pakistan and probably more Muslims in China, than in Oman…So shut the fuck up if you don’t know what you talking about. You are all just racist assfuckers who’s day will come.
I won’t be reading anything further on this site. I just pass through websites telling fuckers like you where to get off. Should we ever meet on the battlfield one day, i will make an example of each and every one of you.
Goodbye and good riddens to you foolish american asswipers. I know that the day will come when you get what you deserve. Allah (SWT) is severe in punishment. I hope that you become Muslim and see the truth around you, but if you don’t, then I care a shit about you and hope that you remain in Hell for eternity.
The religion of peace condemns and threatens again.
He can’t help it. His satanic death cult dictates that he wipe with his left hand. Which makes it haram. Which really drives arselifters up the wall! 8)