I don't see any problem with them catering to a certain cultural or ethnic group. I see no problem with them offering prayer rooms and foods for a certain religious group. What I see as the problem is they intend to refuse residence to other ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. More than likely they would not have many other groups wanting to move into a housing development that isn't designed to cater to them. Also those who are already prejudice against the group they are catering to will probably not want to even seek residence there.
All they have to do is allow other's to live there as well. Build it to cater to whomever they want to. We have a Catholic nursing home with catholic prayer rooms and nuns who work there with the residents. They don't refuse those of a different faith to be admitted there. They just don't draw many who are of a different faith.
They are just asking to be picked on and make an issue out of it by stating that they want to exclude others. Go ahead - tell your kid he can't have a cookie when he's not even thinking about it - all of a sudden he wants one. I personally see this as them Asking for trouble.
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