“This all started back in August,” Macrae Brennan-Fuller, spokeswoman for Newton County, told the Guardian with a sigh. The members bought 135 acres about 40 miles south of Atlanta, in rural Newton County. Newton County is solid Trump country, however, and the presidential candidate’s suspicion of Muslim immigrants revealed itself in local reaction. As the Newton County meeting approached, the GSF released a video set outside a church across the road from the mosque’s proposed site. After the GSF bullied the Newton County commission, Sheriff Ezell Brown pledged to investigate the group.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2016 15:22 UTC