UK: London Mayor Ken Livingstone Promises to Raise Funds for Giant Minaret Construction....

(Proposed Minaret)

The minaret will dominate a good portion of east London, an undeniable symbol of Islam's supremacy of that section of the city and eventually the entire country.  East London will also house the Olympic village Mosque, which will be Europe's largest Islamic house of worship......

MAYOR Ken Livingstone has pledged to help raise funds for a major revamp, including a huge new minaret, of the famous Brick Lane Jamme Masjid mosque in East London.

The Labour candidate running for his third term on Thursday made the promise during a visit to the historic building for Friday lunchtime prayers.

That would include an overhaul of the interior of the Grade II listed structure, originally built as Huguenot church on the corner of Fournier-street, Spitalfields, in 1743, and later converted to the Jewish Maz'ik Adath synagogue.

But the scheme controversially includes a huge new minaret that would tower over the Brick Lane conservation area.

Its construction could also provoke anger among those who fear an irrevocable change in character to a building that has housed all three great monotheistic faiths without alteration for more than 350 years. (Islam's domination of the UK in a nutshell -ed.)

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Comments

[Merrimac]

I notice most of these articles are coming from small, local English newspapers. While that's a judgement against the big media, it can be seen positively as a grassroots movement to stand against Islam, so all's not lost by any means.

[Elric66]

Reporting it wont do anything.

[Merrimac]

Elric: I don't entirely agree that "reporting it won't do anything." If ZIP thought that, he wouldn't be down there as we speak in the bowels of the unmentionable, getting all this up before our eyes. The real reason Islam made such initial headway in Britain and the Continent (and places nearer to home?) was, apart from its illegal alien presence, because most of the public wasn't ever told the truth about it. Once they do learn, or get fed up with Moslem demands for Sharia and more mosques, people start pushing back. It's happening in Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria...

[Elric66]

I havent seen much pushing back. But then, civil war is still a few years away if ever.

[atheling]

Reporting it will do a lot of good. It's done good in the US, as the unfavorable view of Muslims among Americans has risen dramatically over the past couple of years.