A Muslim religious organization has been allowed to proceed with a Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act claim against a suburban Philadelphia township after the township denied a variance to build a mosque within the municipality. A federal District Court in Philadelphia has said the complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the mosque makes out a plausible claim that the township imposed a substantial burden on the organization’s exercise of its religious belief, treated it differently from other groups, and imposed unreasonable limitations on its assembly. Bensalem Masjid had been providing its religious services in a fire hall leased by an...