Posted on 11/27/2005 6:44:11 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
A MASSIVE mosque that will hold 40,000 worshippers is being proposed beside the Olympic complex in London to be opened in time for the 2012 Games.
The project’s backers hope the mosque and its surrounding buildings would hold a total of 70,000 people, only 10,000 fewer than the Olympic stadium. Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques. The complex is designed to become the “Muslim quarter” for the Games, acting as a hub for Islamic competitors and spectators.
“It will be something never seen before in this country. It is a mosque for the future as part of the British landscape,” said Abdul Khalique, a senior member of Tablighi Jamaat, a worldwide Islamic missionary group that is proposing the mosque as its new UK headquarters.
Tablighi Jamaat has come under scrutiny from western security agencies since 9/11. Two years ago, according to The New York Times, a senior FBI anti-terrorism official claimed it was a recruiting ground for Al-Qaeda. British police investigated a report that Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the July 7 London bombers, had attended its present headquarters in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. In August, Bavaria expelled three members of the organisation on the grounds that it promoted Islamic extremism.
Defenders of Tablighi Jamaat say that it is not political and confines itself to humanitarian work. It was founded in India under the British Raj and has many members in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The east London complex would have by far the largest capacity of any religious building in Britain. The biggest at present is the Baitul Futuh in Morden, Surrey, which holds about 10,000 worshippers. Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral, the largest Christian place of worship, has a capacity of 3,000.
The new building will be called the London Markaz (Arabic for centre) and will be built in place of an existing mosque on a 10-acre site 500 yards from the Olympic development.
The three-storey mosque will be designed to accommodate more than 40,000 worshippers. Its sweeping roof is intended to evoke tented cities. The complex would include a garden, school, library and accommodation for visiting worshippers.
Islamic calligraphy would cover the walls and ceilings, the washing areas would have cascading water to mimic a stream, and the complex’s buildings would be adapted to allow extra worshippers during festivals such as Eid, accommodating a further 30,000 visitors.
Ali Mangera, the London and Barcelona-based architect who is designing the mosque, said: “People in this country build mosques with fake domes and plastic minarets to look like the mosques back home. Islam has traditionally been at the forefront of technology and change. The Markaz will reflect this. It will be more than a mosque. The whole idea behind it is to break down barriers.”
Mangera has previously worked with leading British architects including Zaha Hadid, designer of the Cardiff opera house. Mangera and Tablighi Jamaat are in negotiations with Newham council, the Greater London Authority and the Thames Gateway Development Corporation for planning permission.
Sunil Sahadevan, a planning officer at Newham council, said: “We are working towards the mosque application with the organisers and discussions are ongoing. The application will be finalised over the next year.”
It is estimated that the project would cost more than £100m and donations are being sought from Britain and abroad.
Mooselimbs are the brown shorts of the NWO/3rd Way- 4th Reichers
<< When I read the title, I was sure this article had to be from The Onion but apparently not. Are the Brits as self-destructive as the French? >>
Infinitely more so.
When it comes to appeasement of terrorists the British, who for decades have practiced on the terrorist gang that self-styles itself the "ira," are fifty times worse than the French, with whom - and despite the Brits' effectively-few garrison troops in pro-Western Basra and that the French have no visible Iraq presence - America's intelligence services have a much closer and mutually-respectful relationship.
But for its garrison-presence in Iraq, Britain would be listed by the United States as, what it is: a terrorist-haboring and appeasing state.
How the Brits could be so foolish to allow a giant terrorist centre to be built is mind boggling. But we do the same here, take that Boston mega mosk for instance.
Scripture does say that Europe will fall to the rebel, who's army from descriptions in prophacy is made up of hordes of brutal buthering Islamic fundamentalist types.
It is exactly because of the lack of will to recognise the enemy and defeat them while we had the chance that this all happens.
It looks like we are following prophacy nicely...
"Islam has traditionally been at the forefront of technology and change."
HUH??????????????
This has been true since its very beginning. Cultures it took over had about 100 years before Islam snuffed out their art, their music, their scientific research and their secular governments. On those occasions where Islam itself was changed and moderated somewhat by the contact, such as in Spain, where it overran the very philosophically advanced southern part of Spain, which had produced many famous Roman writers and even emperors, other Muslims immediately identified the more "moderate" Muslims as heretics and launched attacks on them.
This is still the case today. It's a death cult, bringing intellectual and social death first, and then reaching out to find other ways of spreading death anywhere it goes.
Arabs have never invented anything except Islam- that they have made absolutely no addition to the ancient heritage of Greco-Latin civilization.
The Arab is a realist and has no imagination-He has copied the ideas of other peoples, distorting them in the process -Islam, by its immutable dogmas, has paralysed their brains and killed all initiative.
"...Tablighi Jamaat has come under scrutiny from western security agencies since 9/11. Two years ago, according to The New York Times, a senior FBI anti-terrorism official claimed it was a recruiting ground for Al-Qaeda. British police investigated a report that Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the July 7 London bombers, had attended its present headquarters in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. In August, Bavaria expelled three members of the organisation on the grounds that it promoted Islamic extremism."
One standard for all parties is better. One church for one mosque. It is a Muslim idea to demand more from "infidels".
The map is missing Lackawanna NY where 6 plus jihadis were training with the laden's thugs in Afghanistan. It's a nest of viperous Yemeni America haters...amd where because they are citizens just keep bringing more in.
This is hilarious. When was there a time in history when a country would build a command center for their enemy right next to the target?
Every time I read crap like this, I think we are closer to losing the war.
The question is, does this 'Girlypeople' country have the foresight to recognize the dangers and the guts to fight our own kind, if that's what it comes to?
The question is, does this 'Girlypeople' country have the foresight to recognize the dangers and the guts to fight our own kind, if that's what it comes to? I watched a CIA type on TV the other night who, when asked the question did he think that the American people had the will to see the Iraq war through to a successful conclusion, he came back with an instant NO! I hate to say it, but I agree.
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