一名身穿罩袍的女子周二在佛罗里达州某县委员会会议期间，在公众发言环节播放伊斯兰祷告录音后，被带离会场。当时与会居民正就当地一座清真寺可能扩建一事发表反对意见，部分人对分区条款和议程材料的措辞表示担忧。目前尚不清楚该女子此举是抗议还是恶作剧。
A woman wearing a burka was escorted out of a Florida county commissioners meeting on Tuesday after playing a recording of the Islamic call to prayer during the public comment period where residents spoke against the potential expansion of a local mosque amid concerns from some over its wording on zoning and agenda materials. It was not immediately clear whether the gesture was a protest or a prank.
“停下……停止播放音乐，停止播放录音带，”埃格斯对该女子说。他进而向在场民众进一步阐明委员会的规定。
"Ma’am, you’re going to have to stop … stop the music, stop the tape," Eggers said. He further clarified the board’s rules to the crowd.
事发时正值公众发言环节，多名居民谴责委员会于10月13日以4比3通过的一项土地用途修正案，该修正案批准“拉赫曼清真寺”扩建。在演示文稿和文件中，该清真寺被称为“社区集会设施”。表决将该地块土地用途从“居住乡村”改为“公共及半公共”，这将允许设施所有人拆除原建筑，新建一座面积大1000平方英尺的建筑。
The incident came during a public period where multiple residents decried an Oct. 13 vote in which the board voted 4-3 to approve a land-use amendment for the expansion of the Masjid Al Rahman mosque, which was referred to in presentations and documents as a "community assembly facility." The vote changed the property's land use from residential rural to public and semi-public, which would allow the facility's owner to replace the building with a newer structure 1,000 feet larger.
周二会议上，多位公众发言人反对该设施，有人援引穆斯林占多数国家对待女性的状况。
During Tuesday's meeting, public speakers spoke out against the facility, some citing the treatment of women in Muslim-majority countries.
“一位女士告诉委员会：“这关乎大局和长远。允许这座清真寺在我们地区扩建，就是在参与一种极权意识形态的扩张，这种意识形态从根本上与西方美国价值观背道而驰。伊斯兰意识形态的扩张不利于女性权利。”
"It is about the big picture and the long term," one woman told the commission. "By allowing this mosque to expand in our area, you are participating in the expansion of a totalitarian ideology which is fundamentally opposed to Western American values.
另一位女士则支持清真寺：“他们想把朝向改为面向麦加，想让它看起来更像座清真寺，而不是民宅，”她说，“我们跟他们没问题。我们做了他们多年的邻居。” 据报道，委员文斯·诺维茨基质疑为何政府文件不用通俗语言描述该清真寺。
Expansion of the ideology of Islam is not good for women's rights." Another woman supported the mosque: "They want to turn it to face Mecca, and they want it to look a little more like a mosque instead of a house," she said. "We have no problems with them. We've been their neighbors for many years."
据《佛罗里达政治》报道，诺维茨基在给县行政长官巴里·伯顿的电子邮件中写道：“居民阅读这些材料，是为了了解自家附近正在提议建设什么，而且无论申请人是谁，他们在每种情况下都应该得到同样简明易懂的说明。”
Commissioner Vince Nowicki reportedly questioned why the mosque wasn't described in plain language in government documents. "Residents read these materials to understand what is being proposed near them, and they should get the same plain description in every case, no matter the applicant," Nowicki wrote in an email to County Administrator Barry Burton, Florida Politics reported.