Zoning Panel's Rejection of Proposed Mosque Raises Questions

January 27, 2008

Author: Jim DeBrosse

Source: Dayton Daily News

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/27/ddn012708mosque.html

SUGARCREEK TWP., Greene County — When the First Baptist Church here advertised a speaker last fall who would tell "the truth about Islam," Dina Ezzeddine of Kettering assumed it would be an interfaith gathering aimed at dispelling negative publicity about her religion.

Instead, former Muslim and Christian convert Shahram Parvani told a gathering of 500 people that "Islam is not a religion of peace," that Muslims "want to control, they want to dominate" and that they spread their religion "by the power of the sword."