January 31, 2018
Bayonne, New Jersey, officials will pay $400,000 to resolve an Islamic group's religious discrimination claim that the city rejected its plan to build a mosque there due to the community's anti-Muslim animus, according to a settlement agreement filed in federal court Wednesday.
May 25, 2017
An Islamic group accused Bayonne, New Jersey, officials on Thursday in federal court of religious discrimination in rejecting its plans to convert an abandoned warehouse into a mosque, saying the municipal zoning board of adjustment capitulated to the community's anti-Muslim animus.