Oklahoma Citizens Rise Up Against Plans to Build Mosque in Their Town

After immense pressure from citizens, a decisive majority of the Broken Arrow City Council voted against a rezoning request that would have allowed a mosque to be built in the Oklahoma town.

The 4-1 vote on Monday night came after several weeks of packed meetings and public debate, per a report from KOTV in Tulsa.

There were more than 400 residents signed up to testify on the issue, according to a report from The Christian Post.

There are currently 10,000 Muslims in the Tulsa area, and the plans for the mosque — which would have been built on land bought in 2014 by the North American Islamic Trust — were meant to deal with crowding at the first facility.

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