NOT HAPPENING HERE! Californians upset over Muslim plans for a huge mega-mosque expansion in their neighborhood of Vacaville

The planned 60-foot tall, 6600 square foot mega-mosque would be an eyesore in that community, not to mention noise from increased traffic and daily Muslim Calls to Prayer being blasted from loudspeakers 5 times a day. There is nothing compatible with 60 feet and higher in that same area.

NY Post A neighborhood has erupted at plans to massively expand a small mosque that will see its capacity increase fivefold. Around 300 furious locals packed a city neighborhood meeting to reject the proposal for the Vacaville site, turning what was supposed to be a routine feedback session into a boisterous stand against the project.

“It’s not going to happen here!” one older man shouted to the throng of people gathered at the McBride Senior Center on March 18, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Other locals called for further studies, with one community member stating, “We do need to do a traffic impact study,” per KCRA 3. “We need to do an environmental impact study on noise ordinance and how that’s going to effect the community and how does this fit in with what Vacaville has a master plan.”

The Vacaville Islamic Center wants to tear down a modest 1,200-square-foot converted house on Bush Street that has served the Northern California community since 1997 and replace it with a 6,600-square-foot, three-story mosque complex complete with a welcome lobby, courtyard, two prayer halls and 37 parking spaces, and topped with a 55-foot dome and a 65-foot minaret tower.

The $1.5 million expansion project is said to be self-funded and would increase prayer space fivefold to accommodate what mosque leaders call a growing Muslim population drawn to Solano County, which is more affordable than surrounding areas in Northern California.

But at the March meeting — organized by city officials to hear concerns about traffic, noise, zoning regulations and how the towering Islamic architecture would fit into historic downtown Vacaville — the message from the crowd was loud and unmistakable: Not here.

Hundreds of residents jammed the senior center, with public comment boiling over. Anti-expansion activists circulated flyers comparing Islam to the Antichrist. One woman wielded pages of Google search results related to “Islamic terrorism.”

Another attendee turned toward women wearing hijabs in the front few rows and said, “If any of them were to take off their headscarf, their husbands would beat them to death,” drawing gasps from the women and applause from parts of the room.

At one point during the meeting, police reportedly had to step in to break up a physical scuffle. City moderators tried to steer the discussion back to matters like the required environmental review and traffic study, rather than the flashpoint of religion.

Vacaville activist Hassan Sabbagh agreed that during the meeting “the whole town seemed to be on edge,” adding, “You just got the feeling that something bad was going to happen.”

Six years ago, the city shut down the mosque which was  being illegally run out of a home.