WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal government is suing a Michigan township after local officials denied an Islamic school’s request for a zoning change to build a new facility on vacant land.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit alleging Pittsfield Township violated of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act by denying a request by the Michigan Islamic Academy for zoning approval to build a new school in 2011, The Detroit News reports.
The lawsuit explains that the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor operates a school in the city, but sought to build in Pittsfield Township because the school currently doesn’t have enough room “for a cafeteria, computer or science labs, private space for guidance counseling, a gymnasium, locker rooms, auditorium, library, kitchen, or adequate administrative space,” according to the federal lawsuit cited by the news site. Read more
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