Mosque Plans Get Cold Shoulder In Chino Neighborhood

posted on: Jan 30, 2015

 Some neighbors are upset over a proposal to build a mosque at Phillips Boulevard and Yorba Avenue in Chino has upset neighbors, although the man behind the plan says they have no reason to worry.

Worshippers have been approved to use the small house on the property to pray in, but, according to Imam Mahmoud Harmoush, it’ll eventually be torn down in hopes of building a 7,000- square-foot mosque. It would be called the Al Nur Islamic Center.

“I told the man this morning, I said, ‘You’d be a welcome neighbor if you build a house there,’ ” Howard A. Forschler told KCAL9’s Crystal Cruz on Wednesday. ” ‘You build that mosque, and you’ll have hostile neighbors.’ ”

Source: losangeles.cbslocal.com