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Subject: LDN mega mosque
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jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:30pm
muslims and none muslim citizens have been protesting against a proposed mega mosque to be built in London, the location will see it positioned opposite the recently completed olympic grounds.. Protesters warn that the people behind this move have a radical agenda and intend to spread further islamization of the muslim community.. * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:39pm
In 1996, British adherents of Tabligh i Jamaat (TJ), the Muslim preaching movement that reflects the fundamentalist Deobandi ideology of the Afghan and Pakistan Taliban, purchased a large tract of land in an industrial area of West Ham, in the London Borough of Newham. The property was formerly a chemical factory, but TJ proposed to erect a mega- mosque there, serving tens of thousands of worshippers, with extensive visitors' and conference centres, guest hostelries, a religious school, and par * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:40pm
parking space. * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:42pm
Little attention was paid to the mega-mosque project until Londoners, both Muslim and non- Muslim, were disturbed to learn that, if realized, the TJ complex would appear adjacent to the new Stadium built for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The successful bid for London to host this year's Olympic Games came in 2005, almost a decade after TJ obtained the parcel on which it intended to place the 'mega-mosque' * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:44pm
Community representatives opposed to the mega-mosque have demanded enforcement of an agreement between TJ and Newham Council, announced in February 2011, and calling for TJ to submit a valid planning application for the construction within one year. Absent such documentation, TJ was supposed to remove its temporary structures and car- park paving. * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:46pm
The February 2012 deadline for a construction application passed without TJ's compliance. Having defaulted on that promise, TJ is left with a makeshift Islamic presence close to the Olympic Stadium. The organization held a public event in February at which it described its vision ambitiously, including a mosque eight stories high and apartment buildings of from four to seven stories each. * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:48pm
Alan Craig, leader of the Christian Peoples' Alliance and a former Newham Council member, has been an outspoken and activist opponent of the mega-mosque; his views on it and TJ, however, are hardly anti-Muslim. Rather, Craig has questioned the character and intentions of TJ in terms shared by the overwhelming number of Muslim adversaries of Deobandi radicalism. * +

jlh1182 29.10.12 - 12:51pm
Muslims against the mega- mosque once included a group called Sunni Friends of Newham, who warned that the TJ plan would discriminate against Muslims unaffiliated with the movement, alienate non- Muslims, and radicalize Muslim youth. The Muslim antagonists to the TJ campaign knowing all too well the reality of Deobandi extremism in South Asia collected 2,500 signatures on a petition against the mega- mosque but faded from the scene, apparently because of TJ pressure. * +

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