The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is welcoming last week's decision by the La Salle County Board to rescind what they deem to be an anti-Muslim resolution.
In a 16 to 12 vote last week, the county board in Ottawa voted to rescind a prior resolution that denounced Sharia Law. It was in response to potential Muslim individuals redeveloping the closed Fox River Resort in Sheridan.
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab says “Local governments should focus on serving all residents equally rather than on advancing symbolic bias-motivated policies rooted in anti-Muslim animus”. The Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization's Chicago leader commended the La Salle County Board for “recognizing that measures targeting faith communities are not only divisive and discriminatory, but fundamentally unconstitutional”.