The Justice Department announced it has filed a lawsuit against a Virginia county for not allowing a Muslim congregation to build a mosque on its land.

In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, the department alleged that Culpeper County violated federal law when it refused to approve a sewage permit to the Islamic Center of Culpeper.

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