Alabama Town crushes expansion plan of Islamic school to avoid turning into another “Dearbornistan” or “Londonistan”

An Alabama town angrily shoots down plan to build a massive Muslim school in their area, with locals citing the ‘cultural takeover’ by Muslims in a Michigan city and as far away as the UK.

A packed and emotionally charged zoning board meeting this week in Hoover, Alabama, ended with unanimous rejection of a proposal to relocate a Muslim K-12 school.
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Daily Mail (h/t Nita) Residents of Hoover in suburban Birmingham showed up in force at a zoning commission meeting Monday as the board voted on whether to allow the Islamic Academy to transform a local office building into a school and community center.

Around 170 locals attended the meeting, with many opposing a motion to move the existing Islamic Academy in Homewood to Hoover. The crowd erupted in applause as the council voted against the request.

While residents agreed with the board’s reasons for denial, there was also heavy discussion about cultural and religious concerns. Some locals were fearful that the proposed K-12 school would transform Hoover into a Muslim society.

Protesters lined the meeting room holding signs and posters, including some reading ‘Stop the 100 year plan,’ a reference to a conspiracy theory that Muslims are trying to take over American institutions.

Another local held a sign reading, ‘Give an inch – Dearborn Michigan,’ in reference to the city with a large Muslim population and Arab-American majority city leadership, AL.com reported. In 2022, Dearborn elected its first Muslim mayor, 33-year-old Abdullah Hammoud, who was recently filmed in a public meeting, telling a Christian pastor to get out of his city.

Some Hoover residents claimed that having the school would deter business development in the area. ‘You’re going to have real problems with this community, I’m just telling you now,’ local Bruce Davis said. ‘There’s going to be an influx of other people that are going to create a problem for this community and we might as well just face it.’