(Detroit News) A federal judge has denied Troy’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Muslim community group that claims the city was discriminatory when rejecting plans to build an Islamic center there last year.
The order that U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds entered Wednesday allows the nonprofit Adam Community Center’s suit against the city and officials to move forward.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter, which is representing the group in the case, welcomed the decision.
“The idea that any city could deny the rights of its citizens to obtain a single place of worship within the city limits goes against the principles on which our nation was founded,” said Amy [Doukoure], staff attorney for CAIR-MI, in a statement.
