Press

25th May 2011

http://www.lapidomedia.com/mosque-gets-go-ahead-led-by-royal-team

Salafi mosque gets go-ahead – led by team that looks after royal palaces

PLANS for a huge mosque in East London that has occupied one of the most heavily contaminated sites in London for 14 years, all but five of them illegally, are back on – led by a consultancy team with royal connections.

Successful appeal by fundamentalist sect “ominous, unjust and divisive” says opposition campaign

18th February 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/18/tablighi-jamaat-mosque-row

By Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent for the Guardian.

Tablighi Jamaat mosque accused of encouraging Muslim isolationism

The Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat, which is fighting to keep its east London mosque, is described as a supremacist movement at a planning inquiry

8th February 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/08/tablighi-jamaat-mosque-plann...

By Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent for the Guardian.
Tablighi Jamaat seeks to keep mosque

Controversial Islamic group before planning inquiry to extend temporary permission for facility near Olympic site in London

n Islamic group once described as an "antechamber of fundamentalism" is attempting to extend temporary planning permission on its mosque near the Olympic site in east London.

15 February 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870371690457613440093462323...

By ALISTAIR MACDONALD, in the wall street journal
Multiculturalism Loses Its Allure

Mosque-Eviction Effort in London Underscores Broader European Shift Toward More Immigrant Integration

LONDON—A local council's effort to evict a mosque from an abandoned industrial site here demonstrates Britain's shifting appetite for multiculturalism, a concept the U.K. prime minister has said should be rejected.

Mira Bar-Hillel, Property Correspondent for the London Evening standard:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23920918-islamic-sect-in-...

Islamic sect in fight for 'mega-mosque' at Olympic site>

Leaders of the Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat will try to overturn an enforcement order served by Newham council requiring them to leave their West Ham site where they want to create the Abbey Mills Islamic Centre.

One of Europe’s biggest mosques with a capacity of 12,000 could yet be built next to the Olympics site in east London if a fundamentalist Islamic sect wins a planning appeal that starts next week. Leaders of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), whose followers have been linked to a number of planned and actual terrorist atrocities, are appealing to a Public Inquiry which starts on Tuesday. If they lose however, they claim it could mean the end of their mega-mosque “development dreams” for their site at West Ham.

Pre-inquiry meeting on Thursday

Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat "are irresponsible and have deliberately flouted planning regulations" say opponents

Planners and lawyers from all sides are sharpening their pencils and their arguments in advance of a major public inquiry into the current use of the West Ham site of the proposed mega-mosque by separatist Islamic sect Tablighi Jamaat.

Fiona Hamilton and Ruth Gledhill wrote in the times 18 Jan.

“Newham Council is now considering compulsory purchase of the land after Tablighi Jamaat, whose strict interpretation of Islam has caused concern, failed to lodge a masterplan of its vision.”

Alan Craig has responded to the news with the following statement:

"It's a big step forward, but not the end of the story. It could be a lengthy legal process and it's clear that Tablighi Jamaat continue to want the mosque"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6991808.ece

Campaigner Cllr Alan Craig speaks at London Muslim 'Big Debate on Islamification' together with panel representatives from Political Islam, BNP and the British Humanist Association