Excerpt:
Metro Nashville School Board member Karen Johnson is leading opposition to a new Islamic Center that would move into the vacant Carmike Theater on Bell Forge Lane in Antioch.
Johnson launched a petition drive today for neighbors to oppose the move, even though the Islamic Center of Tennessee already has a contract in place to purchase the building.
The agreed purchase price is $1.55 million, and the state Islamic Center has already raised $1.1 million in cash and pledges toward that goal. The closing date is set for early August.