Lawsuit Dropped After Muslim community in Stafford Allowed to Build Cemetry

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The US Justice Department is dropping a lawsuit against Stafford County over religious discrimination after a Muslim group were allowed to build a cemetery.

The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced Thursday that it was moving to drop the civil suit.

The dispute began in 2016 when the county passed an ordinance that made it impossible for the All Muslim Association of America to build a cemetery on a 29-acre plot it had purchased.

The Justice Department sued last year under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The county revised its ordinance, but federal lawyers deemed the changes insufficient.

The county changed the ordinance again, and in July the county approved the group’s plan to develop the cemetery.

Source: Associated Press