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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: Supermosque for 70,000 'will be blocked' |
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surprising sanity from the British.
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Controversial plans to build a "supermosque" on the doorstep of the London Olympics will be blocked by the Government.
Ruth Kelly's Whitehall department is expected to refuse planning permission for the London Markaz, which would be the biggest religious building in Britain with room for 70,000 worshippers.
Backers want the �300 million mosque, in east London, to serve as a reception centre for athletes and fans from Islamic countries during the 2012 games.
The group behind the plans is Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary sect whose charitable trust, Anjuman-e-Islahul Muslimeen, has owned the 18-acre site since 1996. Tablighi Jamaat was called "an ante-chamber for fundamentalism" by French security services. Two of the July 7 London suicide bombers are believed to have attended one of its mosques.
The organisation denies any link to terrorism, and has never been banned.
A senior security source said that he was concerned about the proposed mosque, and expected ministers to use their powers to call in, and turn down, the planning application.
The move was confirmed by a senior Government source, who said there were fears that the giant mosque could damage community relations in the area, and added: "We are going to stop it."
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So, is this a "one-off", or are the British stirring? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Sanity? A sane country woul ban his organization, strip him of citizenship/residency, deport him an take his land. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Unless a mosque has demonstrably moderate cleric, one who actually connects to his English neighbours like this Turkish cleric I once met while living in Texas who talked to Christian clergy quite often, fought against any fanatical element. If that kind of Muslim is leading a mosque and the organization has his imprint then it would be a different story, but if it has the imprint of Pakistani style Wahhabism which this organization sounds like then like hell would anyone want it even in the Arctic. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Sanity? A sane country woul ban his organization, strip him of citizenship/residency, deport him an take his land. |
 Where the hell are you from again? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Unless a mosque has demonstrably moderate cleric, one who actually connects to his English neighbors like this Turkish cleric I once met while living in Texas who talked to Christian clergy quite often, fought against any fanatical element. If that kind of Muslim is leading a mosque and the organization has his imprint then it would be a different story, but if it has the imprint of Pakistani style Wahhabism which this organization sounds like then like hell would anyone want it even in the Arctic. |
That is exactly right. We must start making very clear value-judgments with them. Some kinds of islam we can grudgingly accept, and others we must not. Cultural relativism and the pandering to islam must stop. Lefties can take their fetish for the violent and intolerant "other" elsewhere, or just go back to worshiping Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and others from the various grievance-shakedown industries. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I got my own questions about this one. Who would foot the bill for construction and maintenance? Is it really needed? How will it affect the other mosques in London? |
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