EDMOND, OK -- An Edmond neighborhood is dealing with bitter feelings. Some residents in the Pebble Creek addition say they are shocked by a neighbor's signs telling some new neighbors they aren't welcome. The new family is originally from India, but is moving here from out of state. The outspoken family who put up the signs says it's not their race, but their religious beliefs that are the problem.
Bob, who asked us not to use his last name, lives in the neighborhood.
He says, "It's hate speak, that's what it is."
He says he was shocked Tuesday to see, what he describes as, hate filled signs posted in the yard of a neighbor's home, facing another home where an Indian family is going to live.
Bob says, "They've made it very clear they want to control their little world and it's all through ignorance and fear."
We knocked on the door, to try to talk to the residents who posted the signs.
A woman inside refused to come to the door.
She told us through a window that she had met the people who are about to move in and actually liked them, however, she says they told her they were Muslim.
She says, "I know what they stand for and I know the danger our neighborhood is in. I'm trying to save the rest of the people in the neighborhood, mainly the children."
She says, "There is no such thing as a peace-loving Muslim. Read the sign."
Chuck Hebard is the landlord of the home of which the new neighbors will occupy.
He says, like every family he rents to, he did a background check on the family before signing a lease.
Hebard says, "We did not find one thing that concerned us. We like them; we like them very much."
He says they are a hardworking, good family.
Hebard says, "As to their religious affiliation, I don't have knowledge and I don't care to, it's not an issue to me."
He says the new tenants do not deserve this sort of welcome and neighbors agree.
Bob says, "It's something I am not going to tolerate."
We spoke with the City of Edmond and they said it does not appear the signs are violating any city ordinance since they are on the property of the woman who put them out.
As for what they say, that falls under freedom of speech since no threat is made on the signs.
Bob, who asked us not to use his last name, lives in the neighborhood.
He says, "It's hate speak, that's what it is."
He says he was shocked Tuesday to see, what he describes as, hate filled signs posted in the yard of a neighbor's home, facing another home where an Indian family is going to live.
Bob says, "They've made it very clear they want to control their little world and it's all through ignorance and fear."
We knocked on the door, to try to talk to the residents who posted the signs.
A woman inside refused to come to the door.
She told us through a window that she had met the people who are about to move in and actually liked them, however, she says they told her they were Muslim.
She says, "I know what they stand for and I know the danger our neighborhood is in. I'm trying to save the rest of the people in the neighborhood, mainly the children."
She says, "There is no such thing as a peace-loving Muslim. Read the sign."
Chuck Hebard is the landlord of the home of which the new neighbors will occupy.
He says, like every family he rents to, he did a background check on the family before signing a lease.
Hebard says, "We did not find one thing that concerned us. We like them; we like them very much."
He says they are a hardworking, good family.
Hebard says, "As to their religious affiliation, I don't have knowledge and I don't care to, it's not an issue to me."
He says the new tenants do not deserve this sort of welcome and neighbors agree.
Bob says, "It's something I am not going to tolerate."
We spoke with the City of Edmond and they said it does not appear the signs are violating any city ordinance since they are on the property of the woman who put them out.
As for what they say, that falls under freedom of speech since no threat is made on the signs.
