CAIR-MN: A Battle Over a Farm, a Mosque and the Moral High Ground – The New York Times
The Love Lino Lakes organization was called a hate group by one of the Robinsons. And the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization also known as CAIR, asserted that the project had faced “significant opposition fueled by Islamophobic sentiment,” and was being treated differently from other proposals.
Jaylani Hussein, the chapter’s executive director, said Lino Lakes is “not the most diverse city” — it is 85 percent white — and described its position as, “You can have the mosque, but not the houses, or you can have the houses, but not the mosque.”