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Pot laws relaxed in Arlington BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@arlingtontimes.com
ARLINGTON — The Arlington City Council cast votes this week on marijuana laws and lodging tax distribution, but the contro-
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versial vote was not necessarily the one you might suspect. The council voted unanimously to ease off the city’s laws governing marijuana producers and processors. “The conclusion we came
to was that we as a city didn’t need to be so strict, since the state is taking more of an active hand in fine-tuning its rules,” Council Member Jesica Stickles said Feb. 4. The more controversial vote was on this year’s lodg-
ing tax grant awards. Stickles and fellow Council Member Sue Weiss broke with the rest of the group, which favored funding 13 applicants with a total of $129,000. Stickles explained that
she and Weiss went against the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee’s recommendations not because of any qualms with their recipients, but because they harSEE POT, PAGE 2
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MARYSVILLE – Like many others in the world, Mustafa thinks, “ISIS is worse than the devil.” Mustafa Al-habib is a Muslim spokesman for the Al-Mustafa Center in Marysville. He said the terrorist Muslim group called ISIS is not Islam. “They teach to hate,” he said of ISIS, which is the complete opposite of Islam, which means “peace.” “It can’t be more clear than that,” Mustafa said. “Islamic people accept other religions.” He said Muslims associated with ISIS most often come from Saudi Arabia. He is from Iraq.
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Inside the Al-Mustafa Center in Marysville, Mustafa talks about how Islam means “peace.”
Pastor starts website, meetings to unite Muslims, neighbors BY STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE – Terry Kyllo says homosexual couples didn’t get the right to marry over night. It took a long time. And it wasn’t just because of letters to the editor. “People got to know gays and lesbians,” said the pastor of Catacomb Churches and St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.
That also is how hate against Muslims in Marysville also will be quelled, he said. Toward that end, Kyllo released a web page Jan. 29 called, “Muslims and Christians as Neighbors.” Kyllo and others will be putting on 10 informational events at churches all along the Interstate 5 corridor. The overall message is “Love in a Time of Fear.” The goal is to get Christians and Muslims to get to know each other so they can get
past stereotypes. Kyllo said Muslim speakers in the project will focus on three things. 1. Muslims on not trying to convert every one. They want to leave Christians and Jews alone or become friends. 2. Muslims are just as horrified of Isis as others area. “They reject it all and are grieved to the heart,” Kyllo said. 3. Sharia Law is different in every community. For example, a woman
does not have to wear a hijab, but scarves are available if they want to. Muslims will not get mad or offended if you don’t wear one. When an event is put on, people can do their own thing. “They do not impose anything on anyone else,” Kyllo said. Kyllo said the national media and politicians have only added fuel to the fire against Muslims. SEE PASTOR, PAGE 2