Modified Muslim center plans in Chicago suburb addresses criticisms from earlier public meetings.

Stipulations designed to accommodate the qualms of residents near a proposed Muslim center in unincorporated DuPage County just east of Naperville were put in black and white for a special meeting Thursday, but neighbors still left with some of their questions remaining unanswered.

A dozen conditions were spelled out by the county’s Development Committee after its members agreed last month to recommend granting a permit for the Irshad Learning Center, which would go on the north side of 75th Street east of Naper Boulevard.

Several of the stipulations concern hours of worship, one of which (no activities onsite before 6 am) is going to make the mosque off-limits to morning prayer for a significant chunk of the year:

The conditions laid out by the committee reiterated the 100-worshipper cap and the 10:30 p.m. cutoff time for activities held at the site that were proposed in the application. Some neighbors had asserted that the facility would host events as late as 3 a.m. on certain days of the year, saying they had documented that at other Irshad sites in the Chicago region.

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Poteres also wondered whether the open-ended time restrictions would leave the door open to worship in the dead of night, so the Irshad representatives agreed to add another condition restricting them from worshipping earlier than 6 a.m., although Irshad representative Ali Ghane said the organization has never conducted services in the wee hours of the morning.

The additional rule somewhat riled Irshad trustee Mahmood Ghassemi, however.

“I believe this is a burden on us,” said Ghassemi, pointing out that similar limitations are not placed on other churches. “Why have we been singled out, as if our activity should be restricted?”