Uneasy Feelings Moving In
Muslim Sect's Proposal for Extensive Center Unsettles Small Frederick County Town
By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Walkersville is a town of corn farmers and high school football, where American flags hang over front porches guarded by scarecrows and dotted with pumpkins.

Nestled near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains on the rural outskirts of Frederick, it has so many churches that some residents call it "God's Country," and many of them are praying that this hamlet of 5,500 will be able to stop a proposed development. the rest