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Buried Muslims Threaten Upstate New York Town

Officials in the rural upstate town of Sidney are trying to have a Muslim cemetery on private land "no larger than a Manhattan studio apartment" dug up, despite approving it in 2005, on the grounds that it runs afoul of a law prohibiting cemeteries on mortgaged land — you know, that law that everyone always cares about and enforces. [HuffPo]

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