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To a poll. rock star, president and undecided tied for third. many people want to be brian kilmeade but not everybody can be. >> it's a shame, isn't it? debate rages on over the proposed mosque near ground zero, you may have heard of that. other mosque projects across the country are starting to be questioned. one of those places is murfreesboro, tennessee where a nearly 60,000 foot square islamic center proposed has residents outraged. it's going to be huge. but the protest against those mosques take away the debate at ground zero? it's going to be a national trend. joining us right now from ...

To move has fueled people like -- who are against the murfreesboro islamic center to move further and to stand firm. is it taking away the argument of don't build it near ground zero by standing up against it in murfreesboro? >> well, i think, you know, clearly, a lot of the people who are opposing the mosque in new york or the park 51 center in new york are making the claim. you know, we are not against freedom of religion. we are not against islam. but we consider it to be in bad taste, inappropriate to build the mosque here. now, if you start to attack morphi mosques all over country, you c...

And also reasonable local political controversy that's happening in murfreesboro, tennessee, which represents and reflects changing dynamics in the region. so the muslim population has been growing very quickly. there's not a long history in this region or other places in the american interior of accepting these kind of immigrants as there is, say, in new york city so people are reacting to that, you know. the populations have been growing only in the last 10 to 15 years to a great degree due to refugee resettlement and it's been largely invisible. when you build a mosque at the scale or islam...

What are you telling -- what are you telling america? suck it up and get used to it? >> no, that's -- that's not what i'm telling america. look, this is a legitimate local political issue that's getting national coverage because of the event that's going on in new york which right now is a global media event. all right? so there are legitimate things to be debated. the people in murfreesboro, tennessee have a legitimate right to think about their community and the way it's changing. there's legitimate questions about parking. there's legitimate hearings to debate these things and that debate i...

>> reporter: our antioch, tennessee, suburb of nanshville. three dead and others injured after a shooting at a waffle house. >> police tweeted this. >> another shooting nearby that police are saying now is related to that shooting at the waffle house. our affiliate reporter there at wtvs, sophie nelson kalcolding there with details. >> reporter: police called out their s.w.a.t. team and helicopter to search for this man. they are not sure if he has another gun on him. the waffle house is murfreesboro, the man went and started shooting. we do know a customer, someone who was at this waffle hous...