Residents of an Alabama town have successfully stopped the construction of a Muslim school and community center in their neighborhood.
Nearly 200 residents showed up en masse Monday evening to a local zoning commission meeting to encourage board members to vote against relocating the Islamic Academy of Alabama from the town of Homewood to their town of Hoover, according to the Hoover Sun.
The Hoover Planning and Zoning Commission board ultimately chose to deny the building request in a 7-0 vote after board members “heard staunch opposition from the surrounding community.”
The Islamic Academy of Alabama was met with opposition at Hoover’s Planning and Zoning meeting. Residents spoke on traffic issues, sticking to the comprehensive plan, and other reasons why they are against it moving to the city.
It’s currently in Homewood.@abc3340 pic.twitter.com/3jWNDrz20N— Megan Scarano ABC 33/40 (@MScaranoNews) December 2, 2025
Many of the locals complained about the traffic implications.
Jeff Wilson said it took him 18 minutes to drive two miles earlier that day, precisely because of the city’s already existing traffic issues.
Nancy Cooper added that there are already six schools with 5,631 students in the area — in addition to two other nearby schools.
Other locals worried more so about the Islamification of America.
“One Hoover woman who said she recently moved to the United States from the United Kingdom argued that Muslim people do not assimilate into other countries’ cultures well, saying that British people bent over backward to accommodate the Muslim community’s demands and it ended up negatively affecting the community as a whole,” the Sun notes.
“Another man said bringing an Islamic school and community center into the Hoover community would only draw more foreigners into the city and lead to an influx of people who would create problems,” the Sun’s reporting continues.
One woman even held up a sign that read “Stop the 100-year plan.” The sign referenced a plan by the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate Western countries and impose Sharia law.
This is the Islamic Takeover of America
This is what it’s like to zoom into Los Angeles California and Texas to view all the Muslim Mosques and Islam Centers
Islam commands taking over governments and implementing Sharia Law. We must stop allowing this to spread in America pic.twitter.com/R8LQt8Siu4
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 13, 2025
According to the Daily Mail, the woman who recently moved to the U.S. from the U.K. was particularly passionate.
“I was shocked to witness the land that gave us the King James Bible, supposedly a Christian nation, overwhelmingly being taken over,” she said. “I witnessed in the United Kingdom, especially in Manchester, Birmingham, and London, that the multiculturism did not work.”
“The Muslims did not assimilate. In fact, the Brits bent backwards to accommodate their demands over and over, again, to the level of feeling the second-class citizens in their own country,” she added.
The bad news for locals is that the zoning board doesn’t have the final say in the matter. Lucas Gambino, a spokesperson for the Islamic Academy of Alabama, said that the school intends to take its request to the Hoover City Council next.
Gambino also pushed back on some of the criticisms of the school. He argued, for instance, that the school could cap its student enrollment to help alleviate concerns about traffic and other such issues.
Meanwhile, protesters were joined by Tom McLeod, the CEO of the McLeod Software Company. His company reportedly already bought and renovated one of the buildings in the area, Meadow Brook Corporate Park, where the Islamic Academy of Alabama is trying to relocate.
According to the Hoover Sun, he would like to see the whole area converted into a tech hub. In addition, this desire fits in with the zoning board’s own vision for Meadow Brook Corporate Park.
The plan “states a desire for Meadow Brook Corporate Park to be converted into a mixed-use center for office, retail, restaurant, and residential uses,” according to the Sun.
“The overall goal is to reinvigorate an old corporate park and enhance its appeal as an employment center, with a heavy focus on technology companies,” the Sun notes.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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