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Nope, not at all. It's not racist to not want a mosque. It isn't racist to want your small town to remain predominantly white forever more, it's naive and it's backwards. The racists are those who are prejudiced against a particular religion. Those with comments such as 'Muslims are rapists' 'they should go back to their own country ' etc. Read back through the comments and you can see quite plainly that racism is fraught within this debate. Furthermore there are so many bogus signatures that I know this isn't a fair petition. If this was true and you really thought you had a point worth arguing in today's society you wouldn't need to fake signatures.

 Reasoned criticism of a religion/culture (due for example to its tenets, insularity and burgeoning numbers) isn't prejudice, which by its nature is UNreasoning.