Category Archives: Mosque construction

Protesters scent victory in fight to halt Newham mega-mosque

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29 November 2012

Plans to build Britain’s biggest place of worship — a “monolithic, overly dominant and incongruous” mosque in east London — are set to be thrown out despite 25,000 letters in favour.

The mosque, which could take 12,000 people — four times as many as St Paul’s Cathedral — would be as big as Battersea power station and become the HQ of Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat. However, officers for Newham council recommend the plan is refused.

The sect, to which the July 7 bombers and shoe bomber Richard Reid have been linked, could now be forced to leave the Abbey Mills site altogether in Canning Road, near the Olympic Park, after a 13-year battle.

Alan Craig, campaign director of MegaMosque No Thanks and a former Newham councillor, said: “Now it’s up to the planning committee to follow the recommendation to reject. The building would be ugly, it would add nothing to the area and we have huge concerns about the group behind it.”

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Law and Freedom Foundation wins TWO MORE!!

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Two more mosques busted by Gavin Boby!

Brilliant news.

From Law and Freedom Foundation:

Another Win – Chingford

By • on November 13, 2012

90-92 Chingford Mount Road, London E4 9AA

We’ll  keep doing this if you don’t grant planning permission!

A planning application was submitted for a mosque at No 90 and 92 Chingford Mount Road. No 90 was to go  from  a “book shop” (you know the routine) to a full mosque, and be extended to No 92. More than doubling its size, to a total of 148 square metres, or 1,600 square feet.

The Applicants said that otherwise they would have to pray in the street.

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Mosques: the Nag Factor (but we win another one, anyway)

By • on November 13, 2012

Pester power works on Homer, but not us

Sometimes mosque-fightin’ is like an episode of the Simpsons. The opportunistic caricatures that present the applications, the gullible simplicity of the Councils that lap it up, and the spiteful narcissism of the community organisers and journalists. all play their part in this absorbing pageant of human nature.

But the most amusing thing is the juvenile pester power that mosque outfits employ. It goes something like this: apply; apply again; if refused, apply again; apply again with a glossy traffic report; get angry (but apply again); finally, if all else fails, apply again.

The fewer comparisons made between Council planners and Homer Simpson, the better. But mosque promoters are obviously avid students of Bart and Lisa, who know something about the Nag Factor.

This was the routine with our latest win: 7 Carlisle Road, in Brent.

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Fifty Alleged Terrorists From Islamic School in Nganjuk Detained

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How long are we expected to nurture a viper in our bosom merely because the threat pretends to a religion and an oppressed minority. Either Muslims are a fragile delicate flower or they are 1.6 Billion strong. Either they are a poor people in need of help or sitting on top of the bulk of the worlds 2nd most important strategic resource. It cannot be both. And Islamic schools and mosques are neither institutions of growing one’s value to society nor for spiritual piety. They are beachheads. They need to be seen and treated as such.

Jakarta Globe | November 13, 2012

Police guard outside a house, used as a boarding school, in Nganjuk, East Java, on Tuesday. Indonesian police detained 48 students and a teacher from an Islamic boarding school and seized firearms and sharp weapons, a spokesman said Tuesday , in the nation’s latest terror raid. (AFP Photo/Juni Kriswanto)
Police guard outside a house, used as a boarding school, in Nganjuk, East Java, on Tuesday. Indonesian police detained 48 students and a teacher from an Islamic boarding school and seized firearms and sharp weapons, a spokesman said Tuesday , in the nation’s latest terror raid. (AFP Photo/Juni Kriswanto)

Approximately 50 students and one teacher affiliated with an Islamic boarding school and allegedly involved in terrorist activities were taken into police custody on Tuesday.

According to Antaranews.com, dozens of fully-armed police officers raided the Pondok Darul Akhfiya school in the Kepuh village of the Nganjuk district in East Java.

Besides hauling in students, officers also arrested Nasiruddin Ahmad, also known as Landung Tri Bawono, the teacher at the institution.

Nganjuk police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Anggoro Sukartono told Okezone.com that police were still trying to determine whether or not the students were being trained to be terrorists.

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The secrets of the Poitiers grand mosque and its imam Boubaker El-Hadj Amor (Express, 2005)

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A translation by Michael Laudahn

From Generation-Identitaire:

 

Excerpts: ‘In order to convince the UOIF [Union des Organisations Islamiques de France] to get out its wallet, El-Hadj Amor used a shock argument: ‘I emphasised the history of Poitiers. A place of cult and peace on the ruins of the battle in 732: very symbolic.’

‘According to Bouchaïb Kamali, president of the Association des Marocains de Poitiers – the ony moslem to denounce with an uncovered face the ‘omnipotence of El-Hadj Amor’ and to criticise a ‘pharaonic project financed by the UOIF’s petrodollars’ -, the imam maintained a ‘privileged relation’ with the city’s very secular socialist mayor, Jacques Santrot.

The two men, he reminds, met at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique (ENSMA). There, the imam is a maître de conférences; the aedile occupied there for a long time the post of a maître assistant. Since that era, continues Kamali, Santrot made El-Hadj Amor his only interlocutor in the heart of the community, while there are several associations which are ‘more representative’ and ‘more moderate’.

‘A papable mark of this ‘connivance’, according to the word used by several local moslems, responsible? The only place of worship officially counted today at Poitiers (an old house on Rue Ludovic-Le Troubadour transformed into mosque) is assigned to the UOIF by the mayor’s office, while this place had for long been at the disposition of an association bundling the ensemble of the city’s moslem structures. Until the lease agreement suddenly was modified, changing the name of the beneficiary.’ [Source:]

‘SHARIA’ MOSQUE FOUR TIMES SIZE OF ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL

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Daily Star UK:

ABOVE: St Paul’s Cathedral holds a quarter of worshippers the mosque will take
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The mosque trustees say they want to build a mosque the size of Battersea Power Station
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Alan Craig

7th October 2012

By Dominik Lemanski

 

BRITAIN could have its first Sharia-controlled zone if plans for a mega-mosque more than four times the size of St Paul’s Cathedral get the go-ahead.

 

The East London mosque, known as the Riverine Centre, will hold 9,312 worshippers, compared to 2,400 at St Paul’s.

The 16-acre site in West Ham will include 40ft minarets, an Islamic library, a dining hall, multi-use games areas, tennis courts, sports facilities and eight flats for visiting Muslim clerics.

Islamist group Tablighi Jamaat has submitted updated plans for what Cambridge-based architects NRAP are calling a “contemporary Islamic sacred space” the size of Battersea Power Station.

But last night campaigners against the proposal claimed the application was a smokescreen for wider intentions to create a hardline Islamic enclave in the capital.

They also insisted facilities for the wider non-Muslim community in East London would be minimal and disguise Tablighi’s real aim to establish a global base.

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Mosque-go! Muscovites rally against Muslim center project

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This shows that if we actually speak up, we can save ourselves.

From RT:

Published: 20 September, 2012, 16:07

Image from http://www.ridus.ru/news/46040/ (Ridus / Anton Tushin)

Image from http://www.ridus.ru/news/46040/ (Ridus / Anton Tushin)

TAGS: Conflict, Religion, Russia, Protest, Immigration, Moscow

 

Up to 2,000 people rallied in a Moscow neighborhood after local authorities announced the building of a Muslim cultural center and mosque in the area. The protest ended with officials being forced to cancel the planned construction.

­The impromptu demonstration on Wednesday evening was gathered through social networks. Residents of the Mitino district came to voice their fears over the plans to build a Muslim cultural center and mosque in the neighborhood, which would be able to accommodate up to 60,000 believers during a service.

The would-be Muslim prayer house is subject to much speculation, even though construction project is far from being finalized. The rumor mill describes it as “a 13-story mega mosque,” which would broadcast calls to a morning prayer all over the neighborhood.

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Thanks for this Martin:

Saudi- Misuse of mosque for manufacturing explosives condemned

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Menafn:

(MENAFN – Arab News) A number of religious scholars and academics have stressed the need for the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Call and Guidance to beef up monitoring of places of worship. It followed the recent report of a Riyadh mosque serving as a facade for manufacturing explosives.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it discovered explosive substances and devices at a lean-to of a quiet mosque in Riyadh. Mosques normally use attached rooms to accommodate workers or for library service.

The scholars also demanded deterrent punishments to those who exploit the spiritual atmosphere in mosques to promote chaos in the country, Al-Madinah daily reported on Monday.

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New Islamic center in former local school causing controversy

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WXYZ.Com

h/t Gates of Vienna:

Posted: 08/14/2012

  • By: Tara Edwards By: Tara Edwards

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) – A building on the border of West Bloomfield Township and Farmington Hills is surrounded by a lot of controversy.

Eagle Elementary School belonged to the Farmington Public Schools until it was sold to the Islamic Cultural Association.  That is where the controversy begins.

Attorney Erin Mersino with the Thomas More Law Center told 7 Action News there was never a “for sale” sign posted outside of the building. There were several groups interested in buying the building including a Jewish parochial school, an autistic special needs school, and the Light of the World Christian Center church.

“I was being discouraged from doing that,” said the church’s pastor Bruce Burwell. “I couldn’t understand in this economic time. The Farmington Hills School District or any school in America are under distressed times.  If someone is interested in buying a building, why would they be discouraged?”

“Why would they conduct a sale of property in secret as opposed to having it in public meeting as the Attorney General’s opinion states it must be done?”